Weekly Reading (2020/10/19)
Selections from the Web:
- Alex French: The #Resistance and the Retirement Community
- Asif Siddiqi: Transcending Gravity: The View from Postcolonial Dhaka to Colonies in Space
- Gavin Wright: How NAFTA Lost Democrats the South
- Salomé Viljoen: Data as Property?
- Simon van Zuylen-Wood: QAnon Goes to Washington
- Steven Shapin: The rise and rise of creativity
Books and Journal Articles:
Books:
- Isaac Asimov: Foundation (1951)
- Isaac Asimov: Foundation And Empire (1952)
- Nicole Hemmer: Messengers Of The Right - Conservative Media And The Transformation Of American Politics (2016)
Journal Articles and Chapters:
- Elena Aronova: “Geophysical Datascapes of the Cold War: Politics and Practices of the World Data Centers in the 1950s and 1960s,” Osiris, (2017)
- William Davies: “The Political Economy of Unhappiness,” New Left Review, (2011)