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Added The Eye of the Bedlam Bride to Currently Reading

Wants to read Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science

Rated The Last Wish 7/10

Wants to read Blood of Elves

Reading A Short History of Decay

Finished reading The Invasion

Wants to read The Egg

Rated Mort 8/10

Wants to read The Ending Writes Itself

Wants to read True to Life: Twenty-Five Years of Conversations with David Hockney

Wants to read Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature

Rated Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class 8/10

Liu's intentional focus on material realities and call to structural analysis that frames our reality in terms of actionable discourse that subverts mainstream moral pandering that has enmeshed itself with even common-day rhetoric is a necessary one.

The conditions affecting the working class are not solely the doings of the uber-wealthy; we have close proximities to the actors that shape our lives and personal interiority, and they have more immediate detrimental effects and greater lasting impacts. The PMC does not get enough actionable critique (modern liberal discourse refuses this of anything it encounters) mainly due to their occupancy in the public sector that purports a rhetoric of the common good, and Liu does it in a compelling manner.

Her call to use the systems as places to engage and learn to construct working-class ideas and break through the noise with whatever privilege we have in whatever context we share is necessary. We are just as much working on the system as we are working for it. But the resistance and rage must be channeled first inward and then externalized: a deliberation with ourselves as voyeurs of empire and the masters of its destruction.

Wants to read Lady of the Lake

Added The Mercy of Gods to Currently Reading

Finished reading The Message

Wants to read Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

Wants to read The Martian

Wants to read Nightshade and Oak

Rated The Odyssey 6/10

Wants to read Loss Protocol

Wants to read The Third Reich: The Rise and Fall of the Nazis

Finished reading Sunrise on the Reaping

Finished reading Dungeon Crawler Carl

Rated Sourcery 6/10

Rated Digisprudence: Code as Law Rebooted 10/10

A thoughtful approach to code as a source of normativity, proposing criteria for the legitimacy of the norms expressed in software. In doing so, the author engages seriously with the complexities of software development as a field and the materiality of computer systems rather than looking at algorithms as abstract entities. Given the close attachment to the materiality of software, the focus on legisprudence and its conditions of production of legitimate legal orders seems a bit odd, as one might argue that the legitimacy of code should be more akin to the legitimacy of contracts or other social norms, in which legal constraints play a mediate rather than an immediate role. Furthermore, it would be interesting to see how the legitimacy framework can be extended to contexts beyond the end-user-centric debate on affordances. But I only raise these points to make clear that this book is a fruitful inquiry into how technological normativity operates and how it can be controlled. Thus, it is a must-read for those interested in technology law and its foundations.