A lot of miscellany for multiple different projects, this month; creativity and policy and..
Books and dissertations
- Felt, Ulrike. Academic times: Contesting the chronopolitics of research. Springer Nature, 2025.
- Garfinkel, Harold. Studies in Ethnomethodology. Polity Press, 2011.
- Munck, Gerardo L., and Richard Snyder. Passion, craft, and method in comparative politics. JHU Press, 2007.
- Wallas, Graham. The art of thought. Solis Press, 2015.
Papers and Chapters
- Amoore, Louise. “Machine learning political orders.” Review of International Studies 49.1 (2023): 20-36.
- Kramer, Sarah. “Not your mouthpiece: Abortion, ideology, and compelled speech in physician-patient relationships.” U. Pa. JL & Soc. Change 21 (2018): 1.
- Kropp, Cordula, Yana Boeva, and Kathrin Braun. “Socio-Digital Co-Design Practices: A Case Study on Human-Computer Entanglements in Architecture.” Science & Technology Studies (2024).
- Lang, J. Aidan. “The Right to Remain Silent: Abortion and Compelled Physician Speech.” BCL Rev. 62 (2021): 2091.
- Llaveria Caselles, Eric. “Trans materialist critique as feminist practice: lessons from a polemic against nonbinary identities.” Frontiers in Sociology 10 (2025): 1646508.
- Orentlicher, David. “Abortion and compelled physician speech.” The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 43.1 (2015): 9-21.
- Portuondo, Laura. “Abortion regulation as compelled speech.” UCLA L. Rev. 67 (2020): 1.
- Post, Robert. “Informed consent to abortion: a First Amendment analysis of compelled physician speech.” U. Ill. L. Rev. (2007): 939.
- Rodman, Emma. “On political theory and large language models.” Political Theory 52.4 (2024): 548-580.
- Vase, Susanna. “From STI Policy Objectives to Infrastructures: Understanding the Implementation of Directed Challenge-Driven Research Funding.” Science & Technology Studies (2024).
- Vallée‐Tourangeau, Frédéric. “Thinking Through Making or the Art of Verification.” The Journal of Creative Behavior 60.1 (2026): e70099.
- Wohn, Caleb, et al. “” Are we writing an advice column for Spock here?” Understanding Stereotypes in AI Advice for Autistic Users.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.12690 (2026).
Fiction and fun
- The new Charles Stross;
- Bethany Jacobs’ “This Brutal Moon”;
- Elizabeth Bear’s “The Folded Sky”;
- Matt Diniman’s “Operation Bounce House”, “The Dominion of Blades”, and “The Hobgoblin Riot”