Weekly Reading (01/06/2020)
Selections from the Web:
- Andrew Duncan Waddell: Political Masochism: On Trisha Low’s “Socialist Realism”
- Anton Jäger: We Bet the House on Left Populism — and Lost
- Antonia Malchik: The History of Riot Shows the Importance of Democratic Tumult
- Barrett Swanson: Lost in Summerland
- Emily Drabinski: On Jen Schradie’s “The Revolution That Wasn’t: How Digital Activism Favors Conservatives”
- Emily Witt: The Unpredictable Cactus
- Eric Schwitzgebel: How Mengzi Came Up With Something Better Than the Golden Rule
- Gabriel Soares: ‘Civilization’ and Strategy Games’ Progress Delusion
- Ian Bogost: Technology Sabotaged Public Safety
- Jacob Hamburger & Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins: The Homeless Radical
- Nicolas Bommarito: Modesty is not a cranky killjoy but a way to get more from life
- Osita Nwanevu: The Democrats’ Gutless Response to Trump’s Airstrike
- Philip Kitcher: Has Science Journalism Helped Unmask a “Replication Crisis” in Biomedicine?
- Susan Pedersen: Shock Cities
- Zack Kopplin: The Petty Profiteers of Iraq’s Reconstruction
Books and Journal Articles:
Books:
- Phillip K. Dick: The Man in the High Castle (1962)
Journal Articles and Chapters:
- Brian Simbirski: “Cybernetic Muse: Hannah Arendt on Automation, 1951–1958,” Journal of the History of Ideas, (2016)
- Carlo Ginsburg: “The Bond of Shame,” New Left Review, (2019)
- Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri : “Empire, Twenty Years On,” New Left Review, (2019)