Justin Pickard wants to read Coderspeak by Guilherme Orlandini Heurich
Coderspeak by Guilherme Orlandini Heurich
Software applications have taken over our lives. We use and are used by software many times a day. Nevertheless, we …
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Software applications have taken over our lives. We use and are used by software many times a day. Nevertheless, we …
Part-biography, part-political thriller, The Unaccountability Machine is a rousing exposé of how management failures lead organisations to make catastrophic errors. …
The building of human towers (castells) is a centuries-old traditional sport where hundreds of men, women, and children …
A critical exegesis of large language models, like ChatGPT, and recent advances in artificial intelligence.
If speech has long been …
During the early decades of the Cold War, large-scale investments in American defense and aerospace research and development spawned a …
Often seen as an outlier in science, Gaia has run a long and varied course since its formulation in the …
In the mid-2010s, a passionate community of Los Angeles-based storytellers, media artists, and tech innovators formed around virtual reality (VR), …
The zine PrtScn: The Lazy Art of Screenshot gathered more than 30 authors in an aim to collectively explore the …
A tad overstuffed, but (because of this?) succeeds as (all of) hardboiled noir, speculative anthropology, and cathartic routing of white supremacy, which is no small accomplishment. Could have done with a more low-key ending, in my opinion, for some light and shade, but superb writing and characterisation throughout, with more than a few lines that elicited audibly-impressed noises. This alt-history nerd left happy.
In a city that never was, in an America that never was, on a snowy night at the end of …
In What Is a World? Pheng Cheah, a leading theorist of cosmopolitanism, offers the first critical consideration of world literature’s …
A groundbreaking study on the universe of technical objects by one of France’s most important thinkers of the second half …
@eldang@weirder.earth Having read the introduction, it's academic, but seems timely and powerful; delaminating the actual teachings, the contingencies of its original political context, later colonial influences, Punjabi culture, and the diaspora, is (to my mind) a very good thing.
Sikhism, one of the major spiritual-philosophical traditions of India, is often missing from discussions of cross-cultural philosophy. In this introduction, …