Edinburgh Authenticity Studies Reading Group
Co-organisers/Members: Morgan Currie, Peaks Krafft, Addie McGowan, Ari Stillman
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Background reading
Philosophy
Computer Science
Tourism Studies
What have we read together so far?
- 2025 April 9
- Jean Baudrillard (1981) Simulacra and Simulation
- 2025 May 7
- Pierre Bourdieu (1993) The Field of Cultural Production
- 2025 June 25
- Karen Cook (2001) Trust in Society
- 2025 August 24
- Field trip to see Chris Cook’s “Fake” at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
- 2025 September 29
- Michael Power (1997) The Audit Society: Rituals of Verification
- 2025 November 3
- Ian Hacking (2000) Social Construction of What?
- 2025 December 1
- Louise Amoore (2020) Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others
- 2026 February 20
- Herbert Marcuse (1964) One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
- Naomi Klein (1999) No Logo
- 2026 April 14
- Walter Benjamin (1935) The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
- Naomi Klein (2023) Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
What else is on our reading list?
- Marshall McLuhan
- Goffman’s Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
- The Ethics of Authenticity by Charles Taylor
- “Authentic™: The Politics of Ambivalence in a Brand Culture” by Sarah Banet-Weiser
- Minima Moralia by Theodor W. Adorno
- Melvin Seeman (1966) Status and Identity: The Problem of Inauthenticity
- Dick Hebdige (1979) Subculture: The Meaning of Style
- Habermas
Other references and resources
Other relevant people, groups, and projects