Anthropocene
- Moore’s Law and ICT Innovation in the Anthropocene by David Bol, Thibault Pirson and Rémi Dekimpe.
- Bibliothèques et changement climatique: Introduction
- Gas Guzzling Gaia, or: A Prehistory of Climate Change Denialism by Leah Aronowsky – see also James Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis: ”A New Look at Lifeon Earth” … for the Life and the Earth sciences by Sébastien Dutreuil
HCI & AI
- UX Design Innovation: Challenges for Working with Machine Learning as a Design Material (CHI’17) by Graham Dove, Kim Halskov, Jodi Forlizzi, and John Zimmerman.
Political economy
- Religion and neoliberalism
- Corporate Christianity: Wal-Mart and ‘Free-Market Fundamentalism seminar by Bethany Moreton
- Our Lady of Mont Pelerin: The “Navarra School” of Catholic Neoliberalism by Bethany Moreton
- What Do We Miss When We Call Them “Culture Wars”? By: Bethany Moreton
- The Politics of Racial Resentment and the Cost to Health seminar by Frederick B. Rentschler (author of Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland)
- L’oeil de James Scott
- Consulting and public affairs aka McKinsey and states
- How consultants like McKinsey took over France (Politico)
- McKinsey’s Rules – When Consultants Work For Governments (Pro publica)
- Accenture et McKinsey embauchés par l’Etat pour faire un milliard d’économies (Mediapart)
- The McKinseyfication of the State – (Youtube) seminar organized by The Future of Democracy Working Group at the Institute for Public Knowledge and The GovLab at NYU Tandon)
- This reminded me of this podcast/article pulled from the archives: McKinsey extols the benefits of digital public services; wise advice or costly folly? by John Seddon.