~/irregex 2023-03-20
Selections from the Web
John Lanchester: Putting the Silicon in Silicon Valley
James Greig: Everyone Needs to Grow Up
Kyle Paoletta: The Incredible Disappearing Doomsday
Books and Journal Articles:
Books
Benjamin A. Cowan: Moral Majorities Across the Americas: Brazil, the United States, and the Creation of the Religious Right. (2021)
An illuminating look at the links and mutual influence between the Brazilian and US “New Rights” in the 20th century, focusing on weird tradcaths, Jimmy Swaggart-style evangelical televangelists, and strange medievalist political cults.
Journal Articles and Chapters
Pamela McCorduck: The Scientific Life of Edward A. Feigenbaum in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing (2022)
A brief and sympathetic portrait of one of the pioneers of the first wave of AI by the author of Machines Who Think .
Susan McPherson, David Armstrong: Psychometric Origins of Depression in History of the Human Sciences (2021)
Explores how the idea of depression was reconstructed through the use of assessment techniques like the Likert scale.