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References
- Giambattista Vico, New Science (Penguin, trans. Marsh)
- Giambattista Vico, The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico (trans. Bergin & Fisch)
- Vico, “On the Death of Donn’Angela Cimmino,” New Vico Studies 25 (2007)
- Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas (2026)
- Ferdinand Tönnies, Community and Civil Society (1887)
- Mary Parker Follett, Creative Experience (1924)
- Hartmut Rosa, Alienation and Acceleration (2010). Or on youtube
- Proctor & Schiebinger, eds., Ignorance Unmasked: Essays in the New Science of Agnotology (2025)
- Marc Andreessen, “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto” (2023)
- Annie Vella, The Middle Loop https://annievella.com/posts/the-middle-loop/
- Charity Majors, https://charity.wtf/p/ai-demands-more-engineering-discipline
- Chad Fowler, The Phoenix Architecture — aicoding.leaflet.pub
- John Cutler, “How to Thrive at Work When You Think Too Much” — cutlefish.substack.com
- Bethany Andres-Beck, Beth for Democracy — bethfordemocracy.com