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• Books (2)
• Documents (7)
• Audio/Video (7)
• Subtopics (2)

Books (2)

Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War (2017) – Hito Steyerl

Virtual Orientalism: Asian Religions and American Popular Culture (2011) – Jane Naomi Iwamura

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Documents (7)

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• The Moral Economy of High-Tech Modernism (2023) – Henry Farrell and Marion Fourcade

  Perhaps the most important consequence of high-tech modernism for the contemporary moral political economy is how it weaves hierarchy and data-gathering into the warp and woof of everyday life, replacing visible feedback loops with invisible ones, and suggesting that highly mediated outcomes are in fact the unmediated expression of people’s own true wishes.

  11 pages

  Online pdf

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Virtual Pilgrimage and Virtual Geography: The Power of Liao Miniature Pagodas (907–1125) (2017) – Youn mi Kim

True Crime’s Deceits: The Genrefication of Tragedy (2021) – Gabriella Gage

Orality, writing and authority in South Asian Buddhism: Visionary Literature and the Struggle for Legitimacy in the Mahāyāna (1998) – David L. McMahan

Branding Buddha: Mediatized and Commodified Buddhism as Cultural Narrative (2016) – Jørn Borup

Upping the Ante: [email protected] (1995) – Jamie Hubbard

Picturing Our Thoughts (2008) – Jonah Lehrer

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Audio/Video (7)

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• What to Expect (2021) – Katie Manning and Pádraig Ó Tuama

  An analysis of the poem made from items in the index of the book What to Expect When You’re Expecting.

  19 min

  Online
• Frontier Psychiatrist (2001) – The Avalanches
  
  4 min

  YouTube

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How to Do Nothing (2019) – Jenny Odell

We’ve Built Our World for Loneliness (2023) – Sheila Liming and Ezra Klein

Heroes versus Celebrities in the Age of Social Media (2022) – Ayya Santussikā Bhikkhunī

The Invisible Lady (2020) – Jill Lepore

In the Editing Room (2022) – Ruth Ozeki

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Subtopics (2)

• The Book
• The Internet