Recs if you like Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language...

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*.

Linguistics is one of my special interests so I’ve read TONS of linguistics books and am going to round up the good ones here for anyone who might be interested in dipping their toes into this pond! I’m defining linguistics very loosely here and am also including books generally about language!

ecological feministical marxistical critical theoretical international

exactly as the title says - i need to spend more time off social media. these books discuss the negative side effects of spending excessive time online, and cover the importance in stopping social media addiction.

non-fic anticapitalist tech reads

Non-fiction books about linguistics and fiction which relates to linguistics in some way (disclaimer: some connections are looser than others and I have not read all of these books)

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

a compilation of books surrounding personal identity and its intersection with language.

Books on tech & the bias that currently exists and how we can better our future through education & change.

Books that point the gun at tech bros and pull the trigger

every read from my nonfiction book club and then some.

random biographies and real stories of very specific events