Weekly Reading (2020/11/23)
Selections from the Web:
- Adam Kotsko: The Parties Decide
- Adam Tooze: Constitutional Crisis Is Coming for Big Finance, Too
- Akshat Rathi: Numbers Show We’re Not as Addicted to Fossil Fuels as You Think
- Bee Wilson: Flour Fixated
- Sarah Laskow: Wheat’s Evil Twin Has Been Intoxicating Humans For Centuries
Books and Journal Articles:
Books:
- Isaac Asimov: Foundation’s Edge (1982)
- Isaac Asimov: Foundation and Earth (1986)
Journal Articles and Chapters:
- Colette Perold: “IBM’s World Citizens: Valentim Bouças and the Politics of IT Expansion in Authoritarian Brazil,” IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, (2020)
- Daniel Hirschman: “Transitional Temporality,” SocArXiv Preprint, (2020)
- Elihu Katz and Daniel Dayan : “Media Events: On the Experience of Not Being There,” Religion, (1985)