Weekly Reading (2022/03/07)
For the last several months, I’ve felt stuck, not having any sense of what to do next. I’ve been exploring different kinds of jobs with varying degrees of seriousness. Whenever I talk to my friends about this, they tell me (sometimes forcefully!) that I should be writing. I’ve a had a little bit of trouble admitting that that’s what I want, too.
So the spirit of not overthinking things and actually getting started, I launched a patreon to fund my writing and–with any luck–pay for research expenses.
I’m not sure what it’s going to look like yet, except that the I’ll be writing at least one medium-length essay a month. The idea is that it will be public and unpaywalled. If you haven’t seen my writing before this is the kind of thing I do: https://logicmag.io/play/model-metropolis/
At the very least, I’ll be linking the writing on here. If it seems like people want it, I’ll send it out in newsletter form, though it will probably reside on another domain.
Selections from the Web:
- Elena Kostyuchenko: Exodus from Ukraine
- John Merrick: The Language of Your Fathers
- Maya Adereth and Neil Warner: Power, States, and Wars: an Interview with Michael Mann
- Mike Davis: Thanatos Triumphant
- Mike Pietrucha and Mike Benitez: The Dangerous Allure of the No-Fly Zone
- Tom Stevenson: A Tiny Sun
Books and Journal Articles:
Books:
- Jean Baudrillard: America (1988). ISBN: 9780860912200
- Jean Baudrillard: The Gulf War Did Not Take Place (1991). ISBN: 090995223X
Journal Articles and Chapters:
- Gloria González Fuster, Paul De Hert, and Serge Gutwirth: “SWIFT and the Vulnerability of Transatlantic Data Transfers,” International Review of Law, Computers & Technology (2008)
- Sabine Dörry, Gary Robinson, and Ben Derudder “There is no Alternative: SWIFT as Infrastructure Intermediary in Global Financial Markets,“ Financial Geography Working Paper Series (2018)