Recs if you like Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist...

ANTI: fascism, ai, nfts, Big Tech, billionaires, surveillance states, optimization, algorithms, bot farms, technofeudalism, enshittification, exploitation, extractionism, planned obsolescence PRO: organized labor, punk, analog, solidarity, free speech, friction, degrowth, experimentation, right to privacy, right to repair, diy, material process, mutual aid, ecological living, the human hand, the human mind

Looking for fiction? Check out The Big Bad Luddite Novel*.

Did y'all know that Google removed "don't be evil" from its code of conduct?

"Technological progress" is not some magic solution that will benefit all of humanity, but rather a tool to accelerate accumulation of wealth for billonaires, environmental destruction, and intensification of surveillance and control. Is your life better because students don't learn to write essays anymore, incels can make deepfake nudes of anyone, and impoverished communities lose access to water and power?

tools to understand and fight for justice in an online world owned and dominated by the ruling class

Investigating the physical reality of the internet. This reading list explores the material spaces, energy demands, and unseen infrastructure that make digital connectivity possible.

AI, Technofeudalism, Big Data, & Algorithmic Landscapes

Books We Love from NPR began in 2013, always boasting over 200 books (almost 400 in recent years) featuring genres from memoirs, to cookbooks, to graphic novels, to children’s literature, to nonfiction, to novels. Check out NPR’s website to filter this massive list.

The list is in reverse alphabetical order directly from NPR.

We probably already know about them, but do you know about them??

A juicy lineup of books about corporate chaos; where billion-dollar companies make extremely questionable decisions and somehow think no-one will notice them. From scandals and cover-ups these books spill the beans on what really happens behind the scenes.

List is a work in progress!

from artists to songs to streaming, a list of nonfiction works on the ins and outs and cultural impact of all things music

Books on how and why to resist surveillance, the attention economy, and generative AI.

An archive of books that have fundamentally shaped my political consciousness and critical understanding of the world.

every read from my nonfiction book club and then some.

books about music & its social aspects that I want to read (excluding biographies), but lots of suggestions aren't on pb yet! note: v much american-focused

“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.”