Weekly Reading (2023/03/06)

Mar 6, 2023 • kevin

Illustration from Byte (January 1986).

John S. Dykes: Illustration from Byte (January 1986).

Selections from the Web

Miriam Poser: Ghost Ships
Ted Chiang: ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web
Tarence Ray: The Devil’s Milkshake

Books and Journal Articles:

Books:

Carolyn Chen: Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion In Silicon Valley. (2022)

Journal Articles and Chapters:

Corinna Schlombs: Built on the Hands of Women: Data, Automation, and Gender in West Germany’s Financial Industry in Technology and Culture (2023)
Kristin Barker: Self-Help Literature and the Making of an Illness Identity: The Case of Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS) in Social Problems (2004) [reread]