Wants to read Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
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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.
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Wants to read The Psychology of Computer Programming
Rated Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore 8/10
Rated The Computer's Voice: From Star Trek to Siri 6/10
Rated How Artifacts Afford: The Power and Politics of Everyday Things 10/10
Affordances are frequently mentioned in the design and STS literatures. There is no consensus about the content of this term, even though there are multiple attempts to theorise it. The author proposes shifting the focus from "what are the affordances?" to how artefacts afford and under what circumstances, and examines approaches for implementing this vision.<br/><br/>The author attempts to make sense of the current mess, providing a coherent account that attends to the political and social contexts in which technologies operate. In addition, the text presents useful techniques for deploying the concept. Curiously, this successful approach shows the limits of "affordance" as a concept: it allows us to understand modes of interaction with technological artefacts, but even a formulation as elegant as the one presented in this book is still centred on individual artefacts (such as apps, devices, or even platforms). As such, recent attempts to take affordances beyond their use case as a design tool seem misguided. This, of course, is not a problem with the book, which does an excellent job of showing how affordances can be a powerful tool for critical design and engagement with designed artefacts.<br/>
Wants to read All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of The Wire
Rated Advanced Introduction to Law and Literature 6/10
Wants to read Elements of Mathematics: From Euclid to Gödel
Wants to read The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rated Marie von Clausewitz: The Woman Behind the Making of On War 10/10
A solid and readable piece of scholarship discussing Marie von Clausewitz's direct and indirect influences on Carl's On War, providing insights about the continuing relevance of Clausewitz's work to the current day and the context in which it was produced.
Wants to read Como ler textos jurídicos em alemão
Wants to read Statutory Interpretation: Pragmatics and Argumentation