Weekly Reading (01/21/2018)
Selections from the Web:
Politics:
- Elizabeth Bruenig: President Trump Is the Freest Man Alive
- Kurt Newman: The Laugherators: Unstable Irony Is a Difficult Political Weapon to Wield
- Sean McElwee: If Liberals Don’t Embrace Identity Politics, They Will Lose
History:
- Colette Shade: How to Build a Segregated City
- Daniel Bessner: On the Brink (Review of Daniel Ellsberg’s The Doomsday Machine)
Labor
- Kiera Feldman: Trashed: Inside the Deadly World of Private Garbage Collection
- Sam Riches: What Being a Bike Courier Taught Me About Our Broken Economy
Environment:
- Samuel Miller-McDonald: Carbon Omissions: Ignore Reckless Utopians—Energy Transition Is The Only Future We Have
- Zoë Schlanger: The World’s First Major City to Run Out of Water May Have Just Over Three Months Left
Tech:
- Duncan Fyfe: How Sierra and a Disgraced Cop Made the Most Reactionary Game of the 90s
- Eric Newcomer and Brad Stone: The Fall of Travis Kalanick Was a Lot Weirder and Darker Than You Thought
- Safiya Umoja Noble and Sarah T. Roberts: Engine Failure
Books and Journal Articles:
Books:
- Douglas Coupland: Microserfs (1995)
Journal Articles and Chapters:
- Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan: “The Family as Machine: Film, Infrastructure, and Cybernetic Kinship in Suburban America,” Grey Room, (2017)