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Rated Rethinking EU Consumer Law 7/10
Wants to read Science Fiction: A Very Short Introduction
Rated Against Constitutionalism 3/10
A robust reconstitution of a certain model of constitutionalism that mistakes the part for the whole and basically overlooks jurisdictions other than a few Anglophone countries, France, and Germany, except as sources of examples for malaises diagnosed from the experience of these core countries.
Rated A Citizen's Guide to Artificial Intelligence 8/10
A good introduction to AI technologies and their ethical, legal, and social implications, even if verging on techno-optimism at times.
Finished reading Advanced Introduction to Technology Policy
Wants to read A New Introduction to Comparative Law
Rated How to Do Things with Legal Doctrine 10/10
Wants to read The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science
Wants to read Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Wants to read The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
Finished reading Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Finished reading Contemporary Issues in Human Rights Law: Europe and Asia
Rated Between Truth and Power: The Legal Constructions of Informational Capitalism 10/10
A robust analysis of the relationship between law and technology in our information economy. Rather than being entirely driven by technology — or, in the opposite direction, being its sole master — both legal institutions and technological platforms act as mediators that are at the same time shaped by the political economy and profoundly influence social life in ways that current regulatory instruments, designed for an industrial economy, are ill-equipped to deal with. Part I of the book deals with the legal structures that enable informational capitalism by establishing patterns of entitlement and disentitlement over digital resources, while Part II provides a deep dive into the changes legal institutions undergo in response to the dynamics of informational capitalism. While the book focuses on US perspectives, it often brings discussions from other jurisdictions: contrasts with EU approaches are common, while the last few chapters highlight international and transnational organisms. All in all, this book provides an excellent job of showing the substantial impacts of information technologies while avoiding technological determinism, in both its "technology will save us" and "technology will doom us" variants.
Rated Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence 5/10
3.5/5 stars. A compelling presentation of the power relations that affect the creation, deployment, and use of the technologies we usually label as artificial intelligence, situating them as material objects that exist within a specific political economy.
Wants to read The Psychology of Computer Programming
Rated Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore 8/10