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Powells review

Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob by Lee Siegel Angela’s note: if you like this book, you might also like The Age of Missing Information by Bill McKibben (one of my favorites).

Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships by David Levy Powells interview 10 Reasons I’d Rather Marry a Robot, by Regina Lynn Metal Fingers in My Body: Interview with David Levy, Author of “Love + Sex With Robots” 

Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames by Ian Bogost “Videogames are both an expressive medium and a persuasive medium; they represent how real and imagined systems work, and they invite players to interact with those systems and form judgments about them. In this innovative analysis, Ian Bogost examines the way videogames mount arguments and [...]