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** [http://www.papert.org/articles/EpistemologicalPluralism.html Epistemological Pluralism and the Revaluation of the Concrete]
** [http://www.papert.org/articles/EpistemologicalPluralism.html Epistemological Pluralism and the Revaluation of the Concrete]
** [http://web.media.mit.edu/~mres/papers/IJCCI-seeds-seymour-sowed.pdf The Seeds That Seymour Sowed]
** [http://web.media.mit.edu/~mres/papers/IJCCI-seeds-seymour-sowed.pdf The Seeds That Seymour Sowed]
=== The Logic of Collective Action ===
Olson, M. (1965). The logic of collective action: Public goods and the theory of groups. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
There is a soft copy in the shared Zotero or you can ask in IRC to get access.
* 2018-07-25: Read the entire book. Nate is facilitating. Chapters 1 and 2 are super classic and the reason the book is cited as much as it is. I expect that much of our discussion will focus on the first part of the book, but feel free to bring up the other parts as well.

Revision as of 03:18, 11 July 2019

This schedule describes the summer 2019 reading plan for the Sociotechnocanonicon.

Reading group meets on https://meet.jit.si/sociotechnocanonicon every Tuesday, 11:30 - 1:00 PM Pacific time.

Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas

Mindstorms, Seymour Papert (The website has a link to downloadable PDF of the book as a single file.)

To try out the programming examples in the book, you can use an online version of Logo or download UCBLogo (available in Debian/Ubuntu/Arch Linux repositories). Note that the command to exit UCBLogo is bye.

The Logic of Collective Action

Olson, M. (1965). The logic of collective action: Public goods and the theory of groups. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

There is a soft copy in the shared Zotero or you can ask in IRC to get access.

  • 2018-07-25: Read the entire book. Nate is facilitating. Chapters 1 and 2 are super classic and the reason the book is cited as much as it is. I expect that much of our discussion will focus on the first part of the book, but feel free to bring up the other parts as well.