Reading Group: Trust and Technology (Spring 2024)

(8 Feb)            Trust, Modernity, Technology

Niklas Luhmann, “Familiarity, Confidence, Trust” (1988)

C. Thi Nguyen, “Trust as an Unquestioning Attitude” (2022)

(15 Feb)          Writing

Walter J Ong, “Writing is a Technology that Restructures Thought” (1986)

Leo Marx, “Technology: The Emergence of a Hazardous Concept” (2010)

(22 Feb)          Print

Elisabeth Eisenstein, from The Printing Press as an Agent of Change (1979)

Adrian Johns, from The Nature of the Book (1998)

(29 Feb)          Money

Geoffrey Hosking, from Trust: A History (2014)

David Graeber, from Debt: The First 5000 Years (2011)

(7 Mar)            Machines

Samuel Butler, “Darwin Among the Machines” (1863)

Eric Hobsbawn, “The Machine Breakers” (1952)

(14 Mar)          Photography

Susan Sontag, “In Plato’s Cave,” from On Photography (1977)

Roger Canals, “Visual Trust” (2020)

(21 Mar)          Film

Tom Gunning, “An Aesthetic of Astonishment” (1989)

Stephen Prince, “True Lies: Perceptual Realism, Digital Images…” (1996)

(28 Mar)          Internet

Shoshana Zuboff, “Surveillance Capitalism and Collective Action” (2019)

Yanis Varoufakis, from Technofeudalism (2023)

(4 April)          AI & Law

Johann Laux et al, “Trustworthy AI and the European Union AI Act” (2024)

(11 Apr)          Machine Learning

Emily Bender, et al. “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots”(2021)

Andreas Mathias, “The Responsibility Gap” (2004)

(18 Apr)          Human Cloning

Michael Sandel, “The Ethical Implications of Human Cloning” (2002)

Joyce Havstad, “Human Reproductive Cloning: Conflict of Liberties” (2008)

(25 Apr)          Blockchain

Primevera di Filippi, et al, “Blockchain as a Confidence Machine” (2020)

Satoshi Nakamoto, “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” (2008)