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240. Anthropology of Algorithms, Ethnography of Engineers, Theory of Traps (ft. Nick Seaver)

This Machine Kills

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Captology - The Weirdest Neologism in This Whole Book

I was reading, you know, finishing your book and near the last one of the last chapters of the book is very, very cleverly called Parks and Recommendation. And just by coincidence, I was also for the book I'm currently drafting. I was revisiting Leo Marx's The Machine in the Garden around industry and pastoralism and the in American history and culture. It is very interesting to see that come up in that chapter, but in a very, very different context than how I was looking at it. But seeing how these things that there's these kind of connections play throughout.

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