Edinburgh Authenticity Studies Reading Group
Co-organisers/Members: Morgan Currie, Peaks Krafft, Addie McGowan, Matea Senkić, 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
- Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art by Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo (2010)
- 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
- 2026 June 11
- Special guests: Dominique Carlon and Anthony McCosker
- Henrickson, L. (2023). Chatting with the dead: the hermeneutics of thanabots. Media, Culture & Society, 45(5), 949-966
- Bollmer, G., & Rodley, C. (2016). Speculations on the sociality of socialbots. In Socialbots and their friends (pp. 163-179). Routledge
- Natale, S., & Henrickson, L. (2024). The Lovelace effect: Perceptions of creativity in machines. New Media & Society, 26(4), 1909-1926
- Matamoros-Fernández, A., Bartolo, L., & Alpert, B. (2024). Acting like a bot as a defiance of platform power: Examining YouTubers’ patterns of ‘inauthentic’ behaviour on Twitter during COVID-19. New Media & Society, 26(3), 1290–1314
- Graham, T., & Carlon, D. (2026). On the Internet no-one knows you’re not a bot:‘Botting’on Reddit as participatory culture. New Media & Society, 14614448251409210
- 2026 June 30
- Special Secret Draft manuscript by Peaks
- 2026 August 17
- Marshall Berman (1972) The Politics of Authenticity: Radical Individualism and the Emergence of Modern Society
- Charles Taylor (1991) The Ethics of Authenticity
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
- Kafka
- Nietzsche
- Adrian Franklin’s Tourism as an Ordering
Other references and resources
Other relevant people, groups, and projects
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