Weekly Reading (2020/11/16)
Selections from the Web:
- Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft: Writing in Cafés: A Personal History
- Christian Lorentzen: Most Famous Person in History
- Ernie Smith: The Forgotten History of the CD-ROM Magazine
- Marcia Brown: Cancel Student Debt—Almost All of It
- Mike Davis: Rio Grande Valley Republicans
- Niela Orr: White-Hot Furies
- Ursula K. Le Guin: A Rant About “Technology”
- Yakov Feygin and Dominik Leusder: The Class Politics of the Dollar System
Books and Journal Articles:
Books:
- Isaac Asimov: Second Foundation (1953)
Journal Articles and Chapters:
- Diana E. Forsythe: “Engineering Knowledge: The Construction of Knowledge in Artificial Intelligence,” Social Studies of Science, (1993)
- Richard Rorty: “The Priority of Democracy to Philosophy,” Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Philosophical Papers, (1990)