Recs if you like The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power...

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?

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.

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

Great books about misuse and misrepresentation of numbers, statistics and algorithms

A curated reading journey through democratic erosion, truth, and resilience, blending urgent recent voices with timeless analysis.

Why we need a revolution and how we get there

These works (like Conspirituality and Doppelganger) show how high-control ideologies have moved out of the dark corners of the internet and into the mainstream by adopting the aesthetics of wellness, fitness, and motherhood. They teach us to recognize when the language of "liberation" is being used to build a new cage. This shit is insidious. The more you know

This list explores the sociological dynamics of online spaces, and how digital platforms can create senses of belonging (like Pagebound) or exacerbate divisions.

Unlearn the propaganda and stand for our communities.

Reading is political. Economics is political. Society is politics. You might ignore politics, but it will not ignore you.

A list of books, fiction and non-fiction, to help folks think about the machinations of big tech...and what to do about them.

Finance and neoliberalism connect to every sphere of our society - be it politics, parties, or our private life. This list is a collection of introductory books to be more conscious about the system we live in and how it can be changed! Always open for recommendations! The "Planet Money" NPR Podcast was also recommended by @tritsy here on pagebound!

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

Books with a critical, ethical view on AI hype

Critical thinking on Big Tech’s impact on economy and society. Only putting in good books that I’ve read here, so watch this space!

Top 100 books of the 21st century