Stuff I've been reading (January 2026)

By Os Keyes

New year, new books!

Books and dissertations

  • Bettcher, Talia Mae. Beyond Personhood: An Essay in Trans Philosophy. University of Minnesota Press, 2025.
  • Chang, Hasok. Realism for realistic people. Cambridge University Press, 2022.
  • Jaeggi, Rahel. Progress and Regression. Harvard University Press, 2025.
  • Schulman, Sarah. The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity. Penguin Group, 2025.
  • Zurn, Perry. How We Make Each Other: Trans Life at the Edge of the University. Duke University Press, 2024.

Papers and Chapters

  • Amabile, Teresa M. “The art of (creative) thought.” The Creativity Reader 15 (2019).
  • Corrigan, Oonagh. “Empty ethics: the problem with informed consent.” Sociology of health & illness 25.7 (2003): 768-792.
  • Ebeling, Mary FE. “Patient disempowerment through the commercial access to digital health records.” Health 23.4 (2019): 385-400.
  • Elmholdt, Kasper Trolle, et al. “The hopes and fears of artificial intelligence: a comparative computational discourse analysis.” AI & SOCIETY (2025): 1-18.
  • Emke, Ivan. “Methodology and Methodolatry: Creativity and the Impoverishment of the Imagination in Sociology.” Canadian Journal of Sociology/Cahiers canadiens de sociologie (1996): 77-90.
  • Fullerton, Allegra H., and Christopher M. Weible. “Examining emotional belief expressions of advocacy coalitions in Arkansas’ gender identity politics.” Policy Studies Journal 52.2 (2024): 369-389.
  • Hill, Kim Quaile. “Research creativity and productivity in political science: a research agenda for understanding alternative career paths and attitudes toward professional work in the profession.” PS: Political Science & Politics 53.1 (2020): 79-83.
  • Lamble, Sarah. “Confronting complex alliances: Situating Britain’s gender critical politics within the wider transnational anti-gender movement.” Journal of lesbian studies 28.3 (2024): 504-517.
  • Lampredi, Giacomo. “(An) Aesthetic Emotions: A Pragmatist View of Sensibility Change.” Sociological Theory: 07352751251396510.
  • Marres, Noortje, et al. “AI as super-controversy: Eliciting AI and society controversies with an extended expert community in the UK.” Big Data & Society 11.2 (2024): 20539517241255103.
  • Marres, Noortje, et al. “On the controversiality of AI: The controversy is not the situation.” Big Data & Society 12.4 (2025): 20539517251383870.
  • Marvin, Amy, and Isobel Bess. “Atmospheres of Conversion: Trans Cinema, Tactics, and t4t Sociality (Author Preprint).”
  • Munk, Anders Kristian, et al. “Beyond artificial intelligence controversies: What are algorithms doing in the scientific literature?.” Big Data & Society 11.3 (2024): 20539517241255107.
  • Neff, Gina. “Can Democracy Survive AI?.” Sociologica 18.3 (2024): 137-146.
  • Shelby, Renee, et al. “Sociotechnical harms of algorithmic systems: Scoping a taxonomy for harm reduction.” Proceedings of the 2023 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society. 2023.
  • Singh, Ranjit, and Michael Lynch. “Proverbial economies of STS.” Social Studies of Science 55.3 (2025): 327-349.
  • Sloane, Mona. “Controversies, contradiction, and “participation” in AI.” Big Data & Society 11.1 (2024): 20539517241235862.
  • Torgerson, Douglas. “Lasswell in the looking glass: a ‘mirror’for critical policy studies.” Critical Policy Studies 13.1 (2019): 122-130.
  • Williams, Rua Mae. “Metaeugenics and metaresistance: From manufacturing the ‘includeable body’to walking away from the broom closet.” Canadian Journal of Children’s Rights/Revue canadienne des droits des enfants 6.1 (2019): 60-77.