Recs if you like Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion...

Nonfiction books that explore how pop culture reflects our identities and politics at large. These books examine music, celebrities, TV, film, games, literature, and the Internet to remind us that entertainment is never just entertainment, and it really is that deep.

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*.

All of his picks since 2008, both summer reading lists and yearly round-ups.

Books recommended by musician Lucy Dacus, a solo artist and member of the band boygenius. Pulled from her goodreads list.

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

“And I said to my body, softly, ‘I want to be your friend.’ It took a long breath. And replied, ‘I have been waiting my whole life for this.'" —Nayyirah Waheed

Books by Filipino authors that I love/are on my tbr suggestions are welcome! :)

Books about the beauty industry and how it exploits people

Covers so bright you gotta read with shades

Digital minimalism reading list taken from r/nosurf. Plus recently released books relevant to the topic.

All of the books mentioned in Girl on Girl by Sophie Gilbert.

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(These were either referenced, uplifted, briefly mentioned, or criticized by the author)

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Asian ppl can be edge lords too

A book club where storytelling is at it’s heart. To feel for characters in stories as we might for ourselves or our friends.

A book club by KAIA GERBER and ALYSSA REEDER to highlight books that aren’t on the typical bestseller lists in order to better support debut writers, new voices and overlooked stories.

non-fiction books on growing up with the internet and/or with 90s/00s popular culture, primarily as a girl/woman

Where intimacy is labour and feelings are billable. Therapists, streamers, friends-for-hire, trauma influencers - the new side hustles of the soul.

florence welch’s book club

*not a complete list

Books that New Yorker writer and essayist Jia Tolentino has recommended.