~/irregex 20230711 ⌜reading list⌟

Jul 11, 2023

Selections from the Web

• David A. Banks: Writing about the Internet, a Retrospective

• Greg Afinogenov: Prigozhin’s March on Moscow

• Maxim Raginsky: Engineering as Lifeworld

• Tim Barker: PMC vs NAM?

• Yakov Feygin: Persistent Factors in Russian Economic Policy

Books and Journal Articles:

Books

• Ayelet Even-Ezra: Lines Of Thought: Branching Diagrams And The Medieval Mind. (2021)

  This book, on medieval diagramming and the cognitive styles of scholastic scholars is way more interesting than it sounds. It’s also a nicely produced volume, with typesetting that helps support the author’s arguments. If you do read it, be sure to take the author’s advice and spend some time producing your own trees.

• Stephen Jay Gould: Ever Since Darwin: Reflections In Natural History. (1977)

  This is one of the classic collections of Stephen Jay Gould essays. This one has been sitting on my shelf since high school, and I’ve never read it in it’s entirety. It has mostly aged well. It’s impossible to read without thinking of Gould’s impact on the field of the history of science or the stubborn, motivated stupidity of his ideological enemies.

Journal Articles and Chapters

• Carl J. Griffin: Enclosure as Internal Colonisation: The Subaltern Commoner, Terra Nullius and the Settling of England’s ‘Wastes’ in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (2023)

• Daniel W. Harris & Rachel McKinney : Speech-Act Theory: Social and Political Applications in The Routledge Handbook of Social and Political Philosophy of Language (2023)