Weekly Reading (2021/09/13)

Illustration from the article “Censoring the Fun Out of Prodigy” in Compute (October 1991)

Selections from the Web:

• Andrew Cockburn: Defensive, Not Aggressive
• Jack Nicas: The Strange Tale of the Freedom Phone, a Smartphone for Conservatives
• Joe Gough: Why there’s no such thing as the mind and nothing is mental
• Thomas Meaney: Like Ordering Pizza

Books and Journal Articles:

Books:

• Erich Fromm: The Esape From Freedom (1942). ISBN: 0744800145
• Tim Hwang: Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising And The Time Bomb At The Heart Of The Internet (2020). ISBN: 9780374538651

Journal Articles and Chapters:

• Anna Fett: “U.S. People-to-People Programs: Cold War Cultural Diplomacy to Conflict Resolution,” Diplomatic History (2021)
• Eiko Maruko Siniawer: “‘Toilet Paper Panic’: Uncertainty and Insecurity in Early 1970s Japan,” The American Historical Review (2021)

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