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Finished reading Portuguese law : an overview

Rated Pre-Industrial Societies: Anatomy of the Pre-Modern World 6/10

Finished reading Advanced Introduction to Technology Policy

Rated Research Handbook on EU Data Protection Law 10/10

As a contributor to this volume, I am somewhat biased, but it contains a good mix between topical issues and foundational issues in data protection law.

Finished reading Racismo algorítmico: inteligência artificial e discriminação nas redes digitais

Wants to read Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo

Rated Reflexive Methodology: New Vistas for Qualitative Research 10/10

Rated A Citizen's Guide to Artificial Intelligence 8/10

A good introduction to AI technologies and their ethical, legal, and social implications, even if verging on techno-optimism at times.

Wants to read The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge

Wants to read The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science

Rated Star Trek: A Cultural History 4/10

Rated Geology: A Complete Introduction: Teach Yourself: A step-by-step Teach Yourself guide to use at home, school or college 8/10

Rated The Innovation Delusion: How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work That Matters Most 10/10

Rated The Stars My Destination 10/10

Wants to read Children of Monsters: An Inquiry into the Sons and Daughters of Dictators

Rated Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times by Making Up Stories 10/10

Wants to read Judith Shklar and the liberalism of fear

Rated Understanding Regulation: Theory, Strategy, and Practice, 2nd Edition 8/10

Rated The Ethical Spirit of EU Law 6/10

Provides a systemic overview of the references to ethics in EU law, presenting a (mostly, but not solely) deontological "ethical sprit" that is still undergoing a development process but is already reflected in primary, secondary, and tertiary legislation.

Rated Between Truth and Power: The Legal Constructions of Informational Capitalism 10/10

A robust analysis of the relationship between law and technology in our information economy. Rather than being entirely driven by technology — or, in the opposite direction, being its sole master — both legal institutions and technological platforms act as mediators that are at the same time shaped by the political economy and profoundly influence social life in ways that current regulatory instruments, designed for an industrial economy, are ill-equipped to deal with. Part I of the book deals with the legal structures that enable informational capitalism by establishing patterns of entitlement and disentitlement over digital resources, while Part II provides a deep dive into the changes legal institutions undergo in response to the dynamics of informational capitalism. While the book focuses on US perspectives, it often brings discussions from other jurisdictions: contrasts with EU approaches are common, while the last few chapters highlight international and transnational organisms. All in all, this book provides an excellent job of showing the substantial impacts of information technologies while avoiding technological determinism, in both its "technology will save us" and "technology will doom us" variants.

Wants to read We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope

Rated Fighting for Space: Two Pilots and Their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight 8/10

Rated Me, But Better: The Science and Promise of Personality Change 8/10

Rated Time, Law, and Change: An Interdisciplinary Study 10/10

Rated On Tactics: A Theory of Victory in Battle 10/10