Yearly Reading (2018)
This is a list of all the books, dissertations, and journal articles I read or re-read in full in 2018. It amounts to 51 books (19 fiction, 32 non-fiction), and 79 journal articles. In January, I was aiming for 40 books and 100 articles, so I’m going to call this a successful reading year.
Books and Dissertations
Fiction
- Ann Leckie: Ancillary Justice (2013)
- Ann Leckie: Ancillary Sword (2014)
- Ann Leckie: Ancillary Mercy (2015)
- Ann Leckie: Provenance (2017)
- Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979)
- Douglas Adams: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980)
- Douglas Adams: Life, the Universe and Everything (1982)
- Douglas Adams: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (1984)
- Douglas Adams: Mostly Harmless (1992)
- Douglas Coupland: Microserfs (1995)
- John Brunner: The Sheep Look Up (1972)
- Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go (2006)
- Liu Cixin: The Three-Body Problem (2006)
- Liu Cixin: The Dark Forest (2008)
- Liu Cixin: Death’s End (2010)
- Madeleine L’Engle: A Wrinkle in Time (1962)
- Stanislaw Lem: The Cyberiad (1965)
- T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land (1922)
- Ursula K. Le Guin: The Lathe of Heaven (1971)
Non-fiction
- Adam Toose: Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World (2018)
- Alexei Yurchak: Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation (2005)
- Bretton Fosbrook: How Scenarios Became Corporate Strategies: Alternative Futures and Uncertainty in Strategic Management (2017)
- David Pilling: The Growth Delusion (2018)
- Edvard Arturovich Arab-Ogly: In the Forecasters’ Maze (1975)
- Eglė Rindzevičiūtė: The Power of Systems: How Policy Sciences Opened Up the Cold War World (2016)
- Ellen Ullman: Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology (2017)
- Eric Foner and Lisa McGirr (Editors): American History Now (2011)
- Erving Goffmann: Behavior in Public Places: Notes on the Social Organization of Gatherings (1963)
- Evanthis Hatzivassiliou: The NATO Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society, 1969–1975: Transatlantic Relations, the Cold War and the Environment (2017)
- H.W. Arndt: The Rise and Fall of Economic Growth: a Study in Contemporary Thought (1978)
- Henry Trim: Experts at Work: The Canadian State, North American Environmentalism, and Renewable Energy in an Era of Limits, 1968-1983 (2014)
- Howard Brick: Transcending Capitalism: Visions of a New Society in Modern American Thought (2016)
- Hunter Heyck: Age of System: Understanding the Development of Modern Social Science (2015)
- Immanuel Wallerstein: World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction (2004)
- Jenny Andersson: The Future of the World: Futurology, Futurists, and the Struggle for the Post-Cold War Imagination (2018)
- Joy Lisi Rankin: A People’s History of Computing in the United States (2018)
- Keith Woodhouse: The Ecocentrists: A History of Radical Environmentalism (2018)
- Kerryn Higgs: Collision Course: Endless Growth on a Finite Planet (2016)
- Kristen R. Ghodsee: From Notes to Narrative: Writing Ethnographies That Everyone Can Read (2016)
- Marie Hicks: Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing (2017)
- Nancy Fraser: Fortunes of Feminism: From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis (2013)
- Neil Postman: Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology (1993)
- Nick Montfort: The Future (2017)
- Nigel Calder: Technopolis: Social Control of the Uses of Science (1969)
- Quinn Slobodian: Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (2018)
- Sara Nelson: Neoliberal Environments: Crisis, Counterrevolution, and the Nature of Value (2017)
- Stephen Macekura: Of Limits and Growth: The Rise of Global Sustainable Development in the Twentieth Century (2015)
- Søren Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling (1843)
- Tracy Kidder: The Soul of A New Machine (1981)
- William Taubman: Gorbachev: His Life and Times (2017)
- Yuri Slezkine: The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution (2017)
Journal Articles
- Adrian Wilson: “Science’s Imagined Pasts,” Isis, (2017)
- Alex Hobson: “Violence as Global Performance: Operation Revolution Airport and Illusions of Power in U.S.-Middle East Relations,” Manuscript, (2018)
- Alexander King: “Science and the Changing Face of Industry—The Social Phase,” Impact of Science on Society, (1956)
- Alexander Wendt: “Anarchy is what States Make of it: The Social Construction of Power Politics,” International Organization, (1992)
- Alisa Bokulich: “How Scientific Models Can Explain,” Synthese, (2011)
- Andrew L. Russell: “Modularity: An Interdisciplinary History of an Ordering Concept,” Information & Culture, (2012)
- Andy Clark & David J. Chalmers: “The Extended Mind,” Analysis, (1998)
- Barbara Keys: “The Telephone and Its Uses in 1980s U.S. Activism,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History, (2018)
- Benoit Godin: “Technological Gaps: an Important Episode in the Construction of S&T Statistics,” Technology in Society, (2002)
- Benoit Godin: “The New Economy: What the Concept Owes to the OECD,” Research Policy, (2004)
- Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan: “The Family as Machine: Film, Infrastructure, and Cybernetic Kinship in Suburban America,” Grey Room, (2017)
- Bjorn Westergard: “Do Computers Follow Rules Once Followed by Workers?,” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, (2018)
- Charles S. Meier: “‘Malaise’: The Crisis of Capitalism in the 1970s,” The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective, (2010)
- Christopher R. W. Dietrich: “Oil Power and Economic Theologies: The United States and the Third World in the Wake of the Energy Crisis,” Diplomatic History, (2016)
- Daniel J. Sargent: “North/South: The United States Responds to the New International Economic Order,” Humanity, (2015)
- David C. Engerman: “The Second World’s Third World,” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, (2011)
- David Edgerton: “What is the History of Technology About?,” Technology and Culture, (2010)
- David Elliott: “The Alternative Technology Movement: An Early Green Radical Challenge,” Science as Culture, (2016)
- David M. Levy and Sandra J. Peart: “Soviet Growth and American Textbooks: An Endogenous Past,” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, (2011)
- David Nofre, Mark Priestley, and Gerard Alberts: “When Technology Became Language: The Origins of the Linguistic Conception of Computer Programming, 1950–1960,” Technology and Culture, (2014)
- Dawn Nafus: “Exploration or Algorithm? The Undone Science Before the Algorithms,” Cultural Anthropology, (2018)
- Derek J. de Solla Price: “Is Technology Historically Independent of Science? A Study in Statistical Historiography,” Technology and Culture, (1965)
- Dominic Boyer and Alexei Yurchak: “American Stiob: Or, What Late-Socialist Aesthetics of Parody Reveal about Contemporary Political Culture in the West,” Cultural Anthropology, (2010)
- Donald MacKenzie: “Material Signals: A Historical Sociology of High-Frequency Trading,” American Journal of Sociology, (2018)
- Donella H. Meadows: “System Dynamics Meets the Press,” System Dynamics Review, (1989)
- Dylan Lederle-Ensign: “”We Believed Our Own Myths”: The Early Development of Software Engineering on Project Whirlwind (1949-1956),” Manuscript, (2018)
- Elizabeth Popp Berman: “How Experts Can, and Can?t, Change Policy: Economics, Antitrust, and the Linked Evolution of the Academic and Policy Fields,” SocArXiv Preprints, (2017)
- Hamid R. Ekbia and Bonnie A. Nardi: “From Form to Content,” Cultural Anthropology, (2018)
- Harvey Brooks: “Can Science Be Planned?,” Problems of Science Policy, (1967)
- Herbert J. Ganz: “Sociological Amnesia: The Noncumulation of Normal Social Science,” Sociological Forum, (1992)
- Ian Lowrie: “Algorithms and Automation: An Introduction,” Cultural Anthropology, (2018)
- Immanuel Wallerstein: “1968, Revolution in the World-System: Theses and Queries,” Theory and Society, (1989)
- J. Brooks Flippen: “Richard Nixon, Russell Train, and the Birth of Modern American Environmental Diplomacy,” Diplomatic History, (2008)
- Jennifer Bair: “Corporations at the United Nations: Echoes of the New International Economic Order?,” Humanity, (2015)
- Jenny Andersson: “The Great Future Debate and the Struggle for the World,” The American Historical Review, (2012)
- Jessica Baldwin-Philippi: “The Myths of Data-Driven Campaigning,” Political Communication, (2017)
- Jillian Foley: “Dangerous Technology: Visions of Public Cryptography, 1970s-1980s,” Manuscript, (2018)
- Johanna Bockman: “Socialist Globalization against Capitalist Neocolonialism: The Economic Ideas behind the New International Economic Order,” Humanity, (2015)
- John Diebold: “Is the Gap Technological?,” Foreign Affairs, (1968)
- John Gerard Ruggie: “What Makes the World Hang Together? Neo-utilitarianism and the Social Constructivist Challenge,” International Organization, (1998)
- Jonathan Levy: “Appreciating Assets: New Directions in the History of Political Economy,” The American Historical Review, (2017)
- Joseph Morgan Hodge: “Writing the History of Development (Part 1: The First Wave),” Humanity, (2015)
- Julie Jebeile & Ashley Graham Kennedy: “Explaining with Models: The Role of Idealizations,” International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, (2015)
- Leslie Sklair: “The Sociology of the Opposition to Science and Technology: With Special Reference to the Work of Jacques Ellul,” Comparative Studies in Society and History, (1971)
- Linda Risso: “NATO and the Environment: The Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society,” Contemporary European History, (2016)
- Mammo Muchie: “Christopher Freeman: The Founder and Doyen of the Economics of Innovation Theory,” Innovation and Development, (2011)
- Marci D. Cottingham: “Theorizing Emotional Capital,” Theory and Society, (2016)
- Mary Morgan: “Simulation: The Birth of a Technology to Create “Evidence” in Economics,” Revue d’histoire des sciences, (2004)
- Matthias Schmelzer: “The Crisis Before the Crisis: The ‘Problems of Modern Society’ and the OECD, 1968–74,” European Review of History: Revue europeenne d’histoire, (2012)
- Matthieu Leimgruber and Matthias Schmelzer: “From the Marshall Plan to Global Governance: Historical Transformations of the OEEC/OECD, 1948 to Present,” The OECD and the International Political Economy Since 1948, (2017)
- Michael Camp: ““Wandering in the Desert”: The Clinch River Breeder Reactor Debate in the U.S. Congress, 1972–1983,” Technology and Culture, (2018)
- Michael Egan: “Survival Science: Crisis Disciplines and the Shock of the Environment in the 1970s,” Centaurus, (2018)
- Michel Godet: “Future Memories,” Technological Forecasting and Social Change, (2010)
- Nancy Fraser: “A Triple Movement? Parsing the Politics of Crisis after Polanyi,” New Left Review, (2013)
- Nick Seaver: “What Should an Anthropology of Algorithms Do?,” Cultural Anthropology, (2018)
- Nils Gilman: “The New International Economic Order: A Reintroduction,” Humanity, (2015)
- Noortje Marres: “The Making of Climate Publics: Eco-homes as Material Devices of Publicity,” Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, (2008)
- Patrick Sharma: “Between North and South: The World Bank and the New International Economic Order,” Humanity, (2015)
- Perry Anderson: “Origins of the Present Crisis,” New Left Review, (1964)
- Rachel Plotnick: “At the Interface: The Case of the Electric Push Button, 1880–1923,” Technology and Culture, (2012)
- Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal: “Pointers and Positions: Experiments in Addressing the Memory,” Manuscript, (2018)
- Rob Kling: “Computers and Social Power,” Computers and Society, (1974)
- Robert D. Francis: “Him, Not Her: Why Working-class White Men Reluctant about Trump Still Made Him President of the United States,” Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamics World, (2018)
- Ronald E. Doel and Kristine C. Harper: “Prometheus Unleashed: Science as a Diplomatic Weapon in the Lyndon B. Johnson Administration,” Osiris, (2006)
- Sarah Bridger: “https://doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2016.1164393,” Science as Culture, (2016)
- Sarah T. Roberts: “Digital detritus: ‘Error’ and the logic of opacity in social media content moderation,” First Monday, (2018)
- Seán Ó Riain: “Time–Space Intensification: Karl Polanyi, the Double Movement, and Global Informational Capitalism,” Theory and Society, (2006)
- Stephen H. Goldman: “John Brunner’s Dystopias: Heroic Man in Unheroic Society,” Science Fiction Studies, (1978)
- Steven Lubar: ““Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate”: A Cultural History of the Punch Card,” Journal of American Culture, (1992)
- Steven Shapin: “Cordelia’s Love: Credibility and the Social Studies of Science,”. Perspectives on Science, (1995)
- Susan Leigh Star, Karen Ruhleder: “Steps Toward an Ecology of Infrastructure: Design and Access for Large Information Spaces,” Information Systems Research, (1996)
- Theda Skocpol: “Bringing the State Back In: Retrospect and Prospect,” Scandinavian Political Studies, (2008)
- Theodora J. Dryer: “Algorithms under the Reign of Probability,” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, (2018)
- Theodore Porter: “How Science Became Technical,” Isis, (2009)
- Thomas Turnbull: “Simulating the Global Environment: The British Government’s Response to the Limits to Growth,” Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain, (2018)
- Vanessa Ogle: “Archipelago Capitalism: Tax Havens, Offshore Money, and the State, 1950s-1960s,” American Historical Review, (2017)
- Walter A. Weisskopf: “Economic Growth Versus Existential Balance,” Ethics, (1965)
- William J. Fellner: “Rapid Growth as an Object of Economic Policy,” Papers and Proceedings of the Seventy-second Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association, (1960)
- Yakov Feygin: “Dreaming of a Humane Plan: International Expert Networks and the Globalization of Soviet Economic Thought,” Manuscript, 2017