I Agree To The Terms is a new virtual performance developed by the OBIE Award-winning ensemble The Builders Association, who last graced the NYU Skirball stage in December 2019 with Elements of Oz – now they’re back to reopen our first season since Covid19 shut down the theatre in 2020. Learn more:
Office Hours: Recorded March 30 @ 7PM
Read All About It: Interviews
Get Thee to the LIbrary
Recommended readings, curated by The Builders Association.
Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futuresby Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora
Ghost Work: How To Stop Silicon Valley From Building A New Global Underclass by Mary L. Gray and Siddharth Suri
Whole Earth Catalogue by Stewart Brand
Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neill
Information and Society by Michael Buckland
Algorithms by Panos Louridas
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do by Studs Terkel
Conducting Online Research on Amazon Mechanical Turk and Beyond by Leib Litman & Jonathan Robinson
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx
The Black Box Society by Frank Pasquale
The Cybernetic Hypothesis by Tiqqun
Need More Labor In Your Life?
On Your Marx Prep School
Dig into our study guide for On Your Marx, the 2019 festival in celebration of Marx’s 200 birthday – with artists and scholars putting Marxist theories and ideas to work in 21st century contexts.
Extra Credit
We’ve picked a book to complement each show in our season. We’ve got novels, short stories, essays, poetry, and memoir. Join us on Zoom for a fun, informal way to find a new favorite book, meet people, and get your brain into gear for the show – even if you haven’t had a chance to read the book yet.