Stuff I've been reading (June 2026)

By Os Keyes

A lot of miscellany for multiple different projects, this month; creativity and curiosity and AI.

Books and dissertations

  • Baker, Robert. Making modern medical ethics: How African Americans, anti-Nazis, bureaucrats, feminists, veterans, and whistleblowing moralists created bioethics. MIT Press, 2024.
  • Blagg, Christopher R. From Miracle to Mainstream: Creating the World’s First Dialysis Organization: Early Years of Northwest Kidney Centers. Northwest Kidney Centers, 2017.
  • Connolly, William E. Pluralism. Duke University Press, 2020.
  • Lair, Liam Oliver. Disciplining diagnoses: Sexology, eugenics, and trans subjectivities. University of Kansas, 2016.
  • Lawliet, Elias A. The Provider’s Letter: Cisgender Anxieties, Specters of Regret, and Trans Agency as Liberation. University of California, Berkeley, 2022.

Papers and Chapters

  • Akkerman, Sanne F., and Arthur Bakker. “Boundary crossing and boundary objects.” Review of educational research 81, no. 2 (2011): 132-169.
  • Andrews, Leighton. “Phases of discourse on AI regulation in the United Kingdom, 2013–25: Towards a cultural materialist analysis of ‘AI’and ‘regulation’.” Journal of Digital Media & Policy 17, no. 1 (2026): 35-54.
  • Benn, Suzanne, Melissa Edwards, and Tamsin Angus-Leppan. “Organizational learning and the sustainability community of practice: The role of boundary objects.” Organization & Environment 26, no. 2 (2013): 184-202.
  • Bohman, James. “Public reason and cultural pluralism: Political liberalism and the problem of moral conflict.” Political theory 23, no. 2 (1995): 253-279.
  • Bowman, James E. “The road to eugenics.” The University of Chicago Law School Roundtable 3.2 (1996): 7.
  • Dryzek, John S., and Simon Niemeyer. “Reconciling pluralism and consensus as political ideals.” American Journal of Political Science 50.3 (2006): 634-649.
  • Fominykh, Mikhail, Ekaterina Prasolova-Førland, Monica Divitini, and Sobah Abbas Petersen. “Boundary objects in collaborative work and learning.” Information Systems Frontiers 18, no. 1 (2016): 85-102.
  • Honkasalo, Julian. “When boys will not be boys: American eugenics and the formation of gender nonconformity as psychopathology.” NORMA 11, no. 4 (2016): 270-286.
  • Siegler, Mark. “The progression of medicine: from physician paternalism to patient autonomy to bureaucratic parsimony.” Archives of internal medicine 145, no. 4 (1985): 713-715.

Fiction and fun

  • Jonathan Beers’ “Dominion Genesis”
  • Peter F. Hamilton’s “The Helium Sea” and “The Archimedes Engine”
  • Chris Wraight’s “Bloodlines”