Weekly Reading (02/18/2019)
Selections from the Web:
- Aaron Bady: White Words
- Aisling McCrea: The Magical Thinking of Guys Who Love Logic
- Daniel Immerwahr: How the US Has Hidden Its Empire
- Ross Andersen: Scientists Are Totally Rethinking Animal Cognition
Books and Journal Articles:
Books:
- Ursula K. Le Guin: The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (1975)
Journal Articles and Chapters:
- Adrienne Shaw: “Encoding and Decoding Affordances: Stuart Hall and Interactive Media Technologies,” Media, Culture & Society, (2017)
- Paul Edwards: “The World in a Machine: Origins and Impacts of Early Computerized Global Systems Models,” Systems, Experts, and Computers: The Systems Approach in Management and Engineering, World War II and After, (2000) [reread]
- Peter Nagy and Gina Neff: “Imagined Affordance: Reconstructing a Keyword for Communication Theory,” Social Media + Society, (2015)
- William Thomas and Lambert Williams: “The Epistemologies of Non-Forecasting Simulations, Part I: Industrial Dynamics and Management Pedagogy at MIT,” Science in Context, (2009) [reread]
- Yaron Ezrahi: “Technology and the Civil Epistemology of Democracy,” Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, (1992)
- Yaron Ezrahi: “Utopian and Pragmatic Rationalism: The Political Context of Scientific Advice,” Minerva, (1980)