Stuff I've been reading (March 2026)

By Os Keyes

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

Books and dissertations

  • None this month! Just many, many articles

Papers and Chapters

  • Blue, Gwendolyn, and Mél Hogan. “Getting democracy wrong: How lessons from biotechnology can illuminate limits of the Asilomar AI principles.” Journal of Digital Social Research 6.4 (2024): 107-117.
  • Bourne, Clea. “AI hype, promotional culture, and affective capitalism.” AI and Ethics 4.3 (2024): 757-769.
  • Bourne, Clea. “AI cheerleaders: Public relations, neoliberalism and artificial intelligence.” Public Relations Inquiry 8.2 (2019): 109-125.
  • Dodds, Tomás, et al. “AI Hype in Journalism: Visibility, Power, and the Politics of Media Narratives.” Digital Journalism 14.2 (2026): 207-219.
  • Dubrule, Amanda. “Gender and habit: John Dewey and Iris Marion Young on embodiment and transformation.” the pluralist 17.1 (2022): 45-51.
  • Elish, Madeleine Clare, and Danah Boyd. “Situating methods in the magic of Big Data and AI.” Communication monographs 85.1 (2018): 57-80.
  • Finlayson, Alan. “Political science, political ideas and rhetoric.” Economy and society 33.4 (2004): 528-549.
  • Hintz, Lisel. “Academic solidarity in the wake of disaster: Blueprint for an online writing support group.” PS: Political Science & Politics 57.3 (2024): 370-377.
  • Jamal, Bianca, et al. “The Unbearable Opportunity Costs of the Political Science PhD: Evidence and Lessons from Canada.” Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique 57.4 (2024): 939-954.
  • Kotliar, Dan M. “Can’t stop the hype: scrutinizing AI’s realities.” Information, Communication & Society 29.3 (2026): 828-849.
  • Markelius, Alva, et al. “The mechanisms of AI hype and its planetary and social costs.” AI and Ethics 4.3 (2024): 727-742.
  • Michelson, Melissa R., and Betina Cutaia Wilkinson. “Best Practices in Diversifying Political Science.” PS: Political Science & Politics 56.2 (2023): 295-298.
  • Pedwell, Carolyn. “Transforming habit: Revolution, routine and social change.” Cultural studies 31.1 (2017): 93-120.
  • Pihlak, Aino, and Emily Cousens. “Putting the femme in feminist: trans feminism and the ‘male lesbian’in the American second Wave.” Gender & History (2025).
  • Powell, Alison, and Fenwick McKelvey. “AI policymaking as drama: Stages, roles, and ghosts in AI governance in the United Kingdom and Canada.” Journal of Digital Social Research 6.4 (2024): 77-91.
  • Powers, Devon. “Notes on hype.” International Journal of Communication 6 (2012): 17-17.
  • Sinclair-Chapman, Valeria, and David C. Barker. “Broadening Perspectives in Studies of American Governance.” Congress & the Presidency. Vol. 50. No. 2. Routledge, 2023.
  • Spade, Dean. “Laws as tactics.” Colum. J. Gender & L. 21 (2011): 40.
  • Sullivan, Shannon. “Reconfiguring gender with John Dewey: Habit, bodies, and cultural change.” Hypatia 15.1 (2000): 23-42.

Fiction and fun

  • Edward Ashton’s “The Fourth Consort” and “After the Fall”
  • The entire Vorkosigan saga (re-read)
  • Butcher’s entire “Dresden Files” (re-read)
  • Lynch’s “Gentlemen Bastards” series (re-read)