Weekly Reading (2021/03/28)

Illustration from the article "The Idea Bank," Omni Magazine (Sep 1989)

Selections from the Web:

• Daniel Immerwahr: Paleo Con: How thought leaders resurrected the myth of a carefree prehistoric lifestyle
• David Kortava: Lost in Thought: The Psychological Risks of Meditation
• Donald MacKenzie: Cookies, Pixels and Fingerprints
• Matthew Gault: Read the Pentagon’s 20-Page Report on Its Own Meme
• Priya Satia: Fascism and Analogies — British and American, Past and Present
• Sasha Bogojev: The Art of Warez Documents the Lost ANSI Art Scene
• Sinclair Target: Things You Didn’t Know About GNU Readline
• Whet Moser: A Century Later, Another Pandemic of Inequality

From the Archives:

• Ian Hacking: Putnam’s Change of Mind
• Ian Hacking: What’s Best

Books and Journal Articles:

Books:

• Ian Hacking: Rewriting the Soul (1995). ISBN: 9780691059082

Journal Articles and Chapters:

• Andrew Buchanan: “Domesticating Hegemony: Creating a Globalist Public, 1941–1943,” Diplomatic History, (2021)
• Jon Agar: “Putting the Spooks Back In? The UK Secret State and the History of Computing,” Information & Culture, (2016)

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