Stuff I've been reading (May 2026)

By Os Keyes

A lot of miscellany for multiple different projects. Can you see a theme?

Books and dissertations

  • Ahmed, Aziza. Risk and resistance: How feminists transformed the law and science of AIDS. Cambridge University Press, 2025. (weird book; not sure how I feel about it)

Papers and Chapters

  • Carlile, Paul R. “A pragmatic view of knowledge and boundaries: Boundary objects in new product development.” Organization science 13, no. 4 (2002): 442-455.
  • Chambers, Simone. “Illusive methodology: what is normative political theory?.” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 29.3 (2026): 437-451.
  • Fujimura, Joan H. “Crafting science: Standardized packages, boundary objects, and “translation.”.” Science as practice and culture 168.1992 (1992): 168-69.
  • Hawkins, Beverley, Annie Pye, and Fernando Correia. “Boundary objects, power, and learning: The matter of developing sustainable practice in organizations.” Management Learning 48, no. 3 (2017): 292-310.
  • Hedley, Jane. “Surviving to speak new language: Mary Daly and Adrienne Rich.” Hypatia 7.2 (1992): 40-62.
  • Min, Anselm K. “From difference to the solidarity of others: Sublating postmodernism.” Philosophy & social criticism 31.7 (2005): 823-849.
  • Sevinç, Tuğba. “Three approaches to social unity and solidarity.” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 25.4 (2022): 459-479.
  • Shapiro, Ian. “Problems, methods, and theories in the study of politics, or what’s wrong with political science and what to do about it.” Political theory 30.4 (2002): 596-619.
  • Star, Susan Leigh. “Scientific work and uncertainty.” Social studies of Science 15.3 (1985): 391-427.
  • Sullivan, Helen. “Objects, Agency, and Collaboration.” In Collaboration and Public Policy: Agency in the Pursuit of Public Purpose, pp. 187-213. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022.
  • Unruh, David R. “The nature of social worlds.” Pacific sociological review 23, no. 3 (1980): 271-296.

Fiction and fun

  • Neal Asher, “Dark Agent” (how do the politics expressed in his acknowledgements keep getting worse? It’s like dealing with my dad [perjorative])
  • Jim Butcher, “Out Law” (a novella but it’s printed so it counts, shut up)
  • Jack Campbell, “Rendezvous with Corsair” (short story collection)
  • Sebastien de Castell, “Our Lady of Blades”
  • The new Dungeon Crawler Carl book.