Recs if you like Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business...

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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I'm working on curating a list of fiction and nonfiction that deals with topics of censorship, propaganda, and the spread of misinformation as part of a personal curriculum, and I invite you all to join me on this journey. Feel free to leave more recommendations!

This list is dedicated for all the book recommended and mentioned by Louisa Munch - critical theorist. I follow her Instagram account almost from the very first videos. Louisa inspired me to organise better my political reading and she always gives some nice recommendations to inform yourself about the political landscape of today. I just wanted to have all the books in one place, plus the ones which I found on my own reading journey.

We can't have a democracy without informed citizens - Louisa Toxvaerd Munch

general anthropology books! i haven’t read a good chunk of these, but they’ve been recommended for the list!!

My personal recommendations for studying propaganda, from a political science and communications perspective. First lesson = marketing is also propaganda and other things that are also propaganda.

The human brain is programmed for the needs of a prehistoric world, and the constant information and stimulation of the 'Screen Age' easily overwhelms us. These books discuss the science of how we're affected and how to protect our sanity and push back through the tidal wave of the digital age.

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

To getting myself off my jarring Instagram feed, turning the embarrassment at my own naivety into unjudgemental curiosity by taking agency in what I learn about the world (and lowering my anxious resting heart rate); mix of non-fiction and fiction because sometimes novels depict our current world more accurately than a documentary

Not comfort. Clarity. These books show the world as it actually is.

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

Books I want to read to become informed instead of amusing myself to death out of fear 👍🏻

Books discussing the potential impacts of modern technologies on our everyday lives, including the way we interact with one another and the world.

and writing on writing.

books about books!