Rob Horning Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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3. Speculation as a Mode of Production: Forms of Value Subjectivity in Art and Capital by Marina Vishmidt. dense and difficult application of value-form critique to questions about art's autonomy and political potential

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The Invisible Bridge by Rick Perlstein. I started reading this a few months ago and took it in small doses. A historical account of American presidential politics from 1972-1976, with some biographical background on Reagan

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4. God, Human, Animal, Machine by Meghan O'Gieblyn. belletristic exploration of the philosophical problem of "consciousness" and the different solutions advanced by computer scientists and AI researchers and other people invested in the idea that consciousness can be digitized

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the best part of that lecture is when he says, "The other day, I reread Thomas Mann's novel The Magic Mountain."

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still unemployed and reading books. here are thoughts on a few: Porn Work by Heather Berg. applies autonomist Marxism and Marxist feminism to interpret interviews with sex workers, with emphasis on contradictions inherent in self-managing and treating the self as a business

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about gpt-4 etc. https://t.co/U3ztbfYejJ mostly an attempt to apply to AI this passage from Mary Douglas's "How Institutions Think" https://t.co/yMpshaPY7O

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2. Normal Distance by Elisa Gabbert. poetry, in a sort of ordinary-language-philosophy vein. I read it quickly and I'm sure I will read it again

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Kant quotes Jonathan Cohn's The Burden of Choice on this point. what I think is key here is that algorithmic systems harmonize people into patterns of behavior etc. while allow users to potentially experience that process as a kind of individuation, a freedom https://t.co/secA54A87X