Weekly Reading (2021/05/17)
Selections from the Web:
- David Leonhardt: A Misleading C.D.C. Number
- Jennifer Ouellete: What cats’ love of boxes and squares can tell us about their visual perception
- Nicholas Mulder: The Ambitions of Illiberal Democracy
- Noah Kulwin: Narrative Napalm
From the Archives:
- Symbolics, Inc: Concordia Online Documentation System, 1985
- Symbolics, Inc: The Joshua Expert System
Books and Journal Articles:
Books:
- Karl Popper: The Poverty of Historicism (1991). ISBN: 0415065690
Journal Articles and Chapters:
- Emily Baum: “Enchantment in an Age of Reform: Fortune-Telling Fever in Post-Mao China, 1980s–1990s,” Past & Present, (2021)
- Peter Galison: “The Ontology of the Enemy: Norbert Wiener and the Cybernetic Vision,” Critical Inquiry, (1994)
- Ryan Driskell Tate: “Rural Revolt: Power Line Protests and the Alternative Technology Movement in the United States, 1970s,” Technology and Culture, (2021)
- Steven Shapin: “The Ivory Tower: The History of a Figure of Speech and Its Cultural Uses,” The British Journal for the History of Science, (2012)