Weekly Reading (2020/07/16)
Selections from the Web:
- April Glaser: Another Network is Possible
- Ari M. Brostoff: The Family Romance of American Communism
- Byron Williston: The Case Against Mars
- Chris O’Connell: The Legend of John Holmes Jenkins
- Gabriel Winant: Coronavirus and Chronopolitics
- Gideon Lewis-Kraus: Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media
- Long Ling: In Beijing
- Moira Weigel: Palantir Goes to the Frankfurt School
- Neal Ascherson: Warrior Librarians
- Osita Nwanevu: The Willful Blindness of Reactionary Liberalism
- Steven Shapin: Drain the Swamps
- Susan Pedersen: Ruin It Your Own Way
- Richard J. Williams: Manchester: History of the Present
From the Archives:
- Lauren Collins: The Oracle: The Many Lives of Arianna Huffington
Books and Journal Articles:
Books:
- Vivian Gornick: The Romance of American Communism (1977)
- Eric Hobsbawm: The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789–1848 (1962)
Journal Articles and Chapters:
- Vera Khovanskaya, Phoebe Sengers, and Lynn Dombrowski : “Bottom-Up Organizing with Tools from On High: Understanding the Data Practices of Labor Organizers,” Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, (2020)