Recs if you like On Browsing...

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

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ps. looking for more diverse recs since my reads are mostly focused on politics and sociology, so if you have a rec from really any other topic, please leave it in the comments!

Most of these were mentioned in Danny Caine’s book, How to Protect Bookstores and Why: The Present and Future of Bookselling. Plus a few additions!