Weekly Reading (01/14/2018)
Selections from the Web:
Internet Hell:
- Kathleen Hale: Living with Slenderman: Inside the trials of Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier.
- Kieran Dahl: The Miscellaneous Bros of Bodybuilding.com
Labor and Economics:
- Adrian Vermeule: The Hayek Fallacy
- David Pilling: Why It Is Time To Change The Way We Measure The Wealth Of Nations
- Kim Moody: Modern Capitalism Has Opened A Major New Front For Strike Action – Logistics
Politics and Culture:
- Isabel Fattal: Why Do Cartoon Villains Speak in Foreign Accents?
- Noah Berlatsky: The Real Secret to Becoming a Successful Writer: On the Myth Of Meritocracy
- Rachel Greenwald Smith: Tiny Books of the Resistance
Science
- Katherine Rowland: Microchimerism: How Pregnancy Changes The Mother’s Very DNA
- Margaret Wertheim: Radical Dimensions
Books and Journal Articles:
Books:
- John Brunner: The Sheep Look Up (1972)
- Tracy Kidder: The Soul of A New Machine (1981)
Journal Articles and Chapters:
- Adrian Wilson: “Science’s Imagined Pasts,” Isis, (2017)
- Andrew L. Russell: “Modularity: An Interdisciplinary History of an Ordering Concept,” Information & Culture, (2012)
- David Edgerton: “What is the History of Technology About?,” Technology and Culture, (2010)
- John Diebold: “Is the Gap Technological?,” Foreign Affairs, (1968)
- Vanessa Ogle: “Archipelago Capitalism: Tax Havens, Offshore Money, and the State, 1950s-1960s,” American Historical Review, (2017)