Alien: Earth - The Official Podcast
A Host's Bibliography

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Alien and Philosophy: I Infest, Therefore I Am, edited by Jeffrey A. Ewing and Kevin S. Decker. Wiley-Blackwell, 2017.

 

Altman, Sam. “Moore’s Law for Everything.” Sam Altman, 16 Mar. 2021,  https://moores.samaltman.com.

 

---. “The Intelligence Age.” Sam Altman, 23 Sept. 2024, https://ia.samaltman.com.

 

Alvarez-Nakagawa, Alexis. “Law as Magic. Some Thoughts on Ghosts, Non-Humans, and Shamans.” German Law Journal, vol. 18, no. 5, Sept. 2017, pp. 1247–76. https://doi.org/10.1017/S207183220002232X.

 

Andreessen, Marc. “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto.” Andreessen Horowitz, 16 Oct. 2023,  https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto.

 

Avila Negri, Sergio MC. “Robot as Legal Person: Electronic Personhood in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.” Frontiers in Robotics and AI, vol. 8, Dec. 2021, p. 789327. https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2021.789327.

 

Baisden, Denise L., et al. “Human Health and Performance for Long-Duration Spaceflight.” Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine, vol. 79, no. 6, 2008, pp. 629–35, https://doi.org/10.3357/ASEM.2314.2008.

 

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Bender, Emily M., et al. “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜.” Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, ACM, 2021, pp. 610–23. https://doi.org/10.1145/3442188.3445922.

 

Bihlmeyer, Jaime. “Alien: The Pre-Oedipal Horror of (m)Other.” The International Journal of Literary Humanities, vol. 10, no. 4, 2013, pp. 43–55. https://doi.org/10.18848/2327-7912/CGP/v10i04/43880.

 

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Cocconi, Giuseppe, and Philip Morrison. “Searching for Interstellar Communications.” Nature, vol. 184, no. 4690, Sept. 1959, pp. 844–46, https://doi.org/10.1038/184844a0.

 

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Coyle, John F., and Gregg D. Polsky. “Acqui-Hiring.” Duke Law Journal, vol. 63, no. 2, Nov. 2013, pp. 281–346, https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/dlj/vol63/iss2/1.

 

Cunningham, Colleen, et al. “Killer Acquisitions.” Journal of Political Economy, vol. 129, no. 3, Mar. 2021, pp. 649–702, https://ssrn.com/abstract=3241707.

 

Cuny, Maximilien A. C., and Erik H. Poelman. “Evolution of Koinobiont Parasitoid Host Regulation and Consequences for Indirect Plant Defence.” Evolutionary Ecology, vol. 36, no. 3, June 2022, pp. 299–319, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10682-022-10180-x.

 

Darling, Kate. “Extending Legal Protection to Social Robots: The Effects of Anthropomorphism, Empathy, and Violent Behavior towards Robotic Objects.” Robot Law, by Ryan Calo et al., Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016, pp. 213–32. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783476732.00017.

 

De Sherbinin, Alex, et al. “The Vulnerability of Global Cities to Climate Hazards.” Environment and Urbanization, vol. 19, no. 1, Apr. 2007, pp. 39–64, https://doi.org/10.1177/0956247807076725.

 

Ederer, Florian, and Bruno Pellegrino. “The Great Startup Sellout and the Rise of Oligopoly.” AEA Papers & Proceedings, vol. 113, May 2023, pp. 274–78, https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4322834.

 

Elvis, Martin, and Tony Milligan. “How Much of the Solar System Should We Leave as Wilderness?” Acta Astronautica, vol. 162, Sept. 2019, pp. 574–80, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2019.03.014.

 

Farrell, Henry. “No Exit Opportunities: Business Models and Political Thought in Silicon Valley.” American Affairs, vol. 8, no. 3, fall 2024, https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2024/08/no-exit-opportunities-business-models-and-political-thought-in-silicon-valley/.

 

Federico, Giulio, et al. “Antitrust and Innovation: Welcoming and Protecting Disruption.” Innovation Policy and the Economy, vol. 20, Dec. 2020, pp. 125–90, https://doi.org/10.1086/705642.

 

Gilbert, Richard J. “Antitrust Reform: An Economic Perspective.” Annual Review of Economics, vol. 15, 2023, pp. 151–75, https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics082222-070822.

 

Gordon, John-Stewart. “Artificial Moral and Legal Personhood.” AI & Society, vol. 36, no. 2, June 2021, pp. 457–71, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-020-01063-2.

 

---. “What Do We Owe to Intelligent Robots?” AI & Society, vol. 35, no. 1, Mar. 2020, pp. 209–23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-018-0844-6.

 

Güneralp, Burak, et al. “Changing Global Patterns of Urban Exposure to Flood and Drought Hazards.” Global Environmental Change, vol. 31, 2015, pp. 217–25, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.01.002.

 

Gunkel, David J. “The Rights of Robots.” Non-Human Rights – Critical Perspectives, edited by Alexis Alvarez Nakagawa and Costas Douzinas, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022.

 

Haraway, Donna. “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century.” The Cybercultures Reader, edited by David Bell and Barbara M. Kennedy, Routledge, 2000, pp. 291–324.

 

---. “The Promises of Monsters: A Regenerative Politics for Inappropriate/d Others.” Cultural Studies, edited by Lawrence Grossberg et al., Routledge, 1991, pp. 295–336, https://pages.mtu.edu/~jdslack/readings/CSReadings/Haraway_Promises_of_Monsters.pdf.

 

Harris, Jamie, and Jacy Reese Anthis. “The Moral Consideration of Artificial Entities: A Literature Review.” Science and Engineering Ethics, vol. 27, no. 4, Aug. 2021, p. 53, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-021-00331-8.

 

Harvey, Jeffrey A. “Factors Affecting the Evolution of Development Strategies in Parasitoid Wasps: The Importance of Functional Constraints and Incorporating Complexity.” Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, vol. 117, no. 1, 2005, pp. 1–13. Wiley Online Library, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1570-7458.2005.00348.x.

 

Harvey, Jeffrey A., and Miriama Malcicka. “Nutritional Integration Between Insect Hosts and Koinobiont Parasitoids in an Evolutionary Framework.” Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, vol. 159, no. 2, May 2016, pp. 181–88, https://doi.org/10.1111/eea.12426.

 

Harvey, Jeffrey A., and Michael R. Strand. “The Developmental Strategies of Endoparasitoid Wasps Vary with Host Feeding Ecology.” Ecology, vol. 83, no. 9, Sept. 2002, pp. 2439–51, https://doi.org/10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[2439:TDSOEW]2.0.CO;2.

 

Heller, René, and John Armstrong. “Superhabitable Worlds.” Astrobiology, vol. 14, no. 1, 2014, pp. 50–66, https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2013.1088.

 

Hemphill, C. Scott, and Tim Wu. “Nascent Competitors.” SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020, https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3624058.

 

Hogan, Katharyn. “Is the Machine Question the Same Question as the Animal Question?” Ethics and Information Technology, vol. 19, no. 1, Mar. 2017, pp. 29–38. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-017-9418-4.

 

James, William. “Are We Automata?” Mind, vol. 4, no. 13, Jan. 1879, pp. 1–20,  https://www.jstor.org/stable/2246561.

 

Jameson, Fredric. “Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism.” Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Duke University Press, 1991, pp. 53–91.

 

---. Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions. Verso, 2007.

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Johnson, Deborah G., and Mario Verdicchio. “Why Robots Should Not Be Treated like Animals.” Ethics and Information Technology, vol. 20, no. 4, Dec. 2018, pp. 291–301. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-018-9481-5.

 

Jonze, Paul. “Reproduction and the Maternal Body in the Alien Series.” Mister Jonze, 9 June 2012, https://misterjonze.wordpress.com/2012/06/09/reproduction-in-the-alien-series/.

 

Kaltenegger, Lisa. “How to Characterize Habitable Worlds and Signs of Life.” Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 55, no. 1, Aug. 2017, pp. 433–85, https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-astro-082214-122238.

 

Kincaid, Paul. “On the Origins of Genre.” Extrapolation, vol. 44, no. 4, Jan. 2003, pp. 409–19. https://doi.org/10.3828/extr.2003.44.4.04.

 

Kirkpatrick, Andrew W., Mark R. Campbell, et al. “Extraterrestrial Hemorrhage Control: Terrestrial Developments in Technique, Technology, and Philosophy with Applicability to Traumatic Hemorrhage Control in Long-Duration Spaceflight.” Journal of the American College of Surgeons, vol. 200, no. 1, 2005, pp. 64–76, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2004.08.028.

 

Kirkpatrick, Andrew W., Chad G. Ball, et al. “Severe Traumatic Injury During Long Duration Spaceflight: Light Years Beyond ATLS.” Journal of Trauma Management & Outcomes, vol. 3, no. 4, 2009, https://doi.org/10.1186/1752-2897-3-4.

 

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Kuris, Armand M., and Mona Y. Luo. “Science Fiction: The Biology of the Alien in Alien.” The Biochemist, vol. 45, no. 6, Dec. 2023, pp. 14–17, https://doi.org/10.1042/bio_2023_154.

 

Lafferty, Kevin D., and Armand M. Kuris. “Trophic Strategies, Animal Diversity and Body Size.” Trends in Ecology & Evolution, vol. 17, no. 11, Nov. 2002, pp. 507–13, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0169-5347(02)02615-0.

 

Lemley, Mark A. “Free the Market: How We Can Save Capitalism from the Capitalists.” SSRN Electronic Journal, 2024. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4692267.

 

Lineweaver, Charles H., and Aditya Chopra. “The Habitability of Our Earth and Other Earths: Astrophysical, Geochemical, Geophysical, and Biological Limits on Planet Habitability.” Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, vol. 40, no. 1, May 2012, pp. 597–623, https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-earth-042711-105531.

 

Lynch, Casey R., and Àlex Muñoz-Viso. “Blockchain Urbanism: Evolving Geographies of Libertarian Exit and Technopolitical Failure.” Progress in Human Geography, vol. 48, no. 1, Feb. 2024, pp. 66–84, https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325231219699.

 

Manshel, Alexander. “The Lag: Technology and Fiction in the Twentieth Century.”  PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, vol. 135, no. 1, Jan. 2020, pp. 40–58, https://doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2020.135.1.40.

 

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McKenzie, A., and J. Punske. “Language Development During Interstellar Travel.” Acta Futura, vol. 12, 2020, pp. 123–32, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3747353.

 

McLean, Margaret R. “Reaching out from Earth to the Stars.” Geological Society, London, Special Publications, vol. 508, no. 1, 2021, pp. 297–302, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP508-2020-16.

 

Méndez, Abel, et al. “Habitability Models for Astrobiology.” Astrobiology, vol. 21, no. 8, Aug. 2021, pp. 1017–27, https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2020.2342.

 

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Messeri, Lisa, and MJ Crockett. “Artificial Intelligence and Illusions of Understanding in Scientific Research.” Nature, vol. 627, Mar. 2024, pp. 48–58, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07146-0.

 

Mori, Masahiro. “The Uncanny Valley.” IEEE Spectrum, June 2012, https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-uncanny-valley.

 

Mulhall, Stephen. “In Space, No-One Can Hear You Scream: Acknowledging the Human Voice in the Alien Universe.” Film as Philosophy, edited by Rupert Read and Jerry Goodenough, Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2005, pp. 57–71. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230524262_4.

 

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Rinzler, JW. The Making of Aliens. Titan, 2020.

 

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