Weekly Reading (2023/08/02)

Aug 2, 2023 • kevin

The face of a computer operator from the 2134th Communications Squadron is reflected on the screen of his video display terminal (1988).

"The face of a computer operator from the 2134th Communications Squadron is reflected on the screen of his video display terminal". (1988)

Selections from the Web

Ben Tarnoff: ‘A certain danger lurks there’: how the inventor of the first chatbot turned against AI
Brian VanHooker : An Oral History of ‘Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist’
Marianna Giusti : Everything I, an Italian, thought I knew about Italian food is wrong
Mike Jay: In the Alchemist’s Den
Neil Warner: Constructing “Social Europe”
Susannah Glickman: Semi-Politics

Books and Journal Articles:

Books

J. Stephen Lansing: Priests And Programmers: Technologies Of Power In The Engineered Landscape Of Bali. (2007)
John Stuart Mill: Autobiography. (1873)
Richard Levins and Richard Lewontin: The Dialectical Biologist. (1985)

Journal Articles and Chapters

Lawrence K. Frank: Society as the Patient in American Journal of Sociology (1936)