Recs if you like More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity...
AI Ain't Fly
Look, we all know AI is rubbish. Here are some books about why it sucks so hard.
your honor, big tech is literally evil
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?
The Big Bad Luddite List
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*.
Ologies Podcast Suggestions
Ologies is a weekly science podcast hosted by Alie Ward. Each episode, Ward interviews an expert from a distinct scientific field.
This unofficial list contains book suggestions made by the host or by her guests. I avoided extremely technical books or papers. Currently from episode 1 to 525 More details on these books and their associated episodes in my ever evolving spreadsheet.
In the spreadsheet there are also books not found on Goodreads and general book recommendations (like the entire bibliography of a specific author or group of people)
Digital Geographies
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
Expert-Curated Books on Critical AI
βCritical AIβ is a growing field that examines the societal, ethical, and cultural implications of AI.
It involves evaluating, questioning, and understanding AI's limitations and risks, including power structures, bias, and environmental impacts.
Selected from a collection curated by Prof. Dr. Dagmar Monett, Head of the Computer Science Department at HWR Berlin. Full list here.
HRCYED 3.0 Helper - Periodic Table
Qwordy's Hardest Reading Challenge You'll Ever Do 3.0 Periodic Table Titles Prompt You must find five books that use a different element of the periodic table in the title of the book This is an on going list and always open for recommendations
AI AWARENESS
Credits to Catharina Doria, an Ai ethicist for the recommendations on this list! (@cahdoria on instagram) NOT MY RECOMMENDATIONS
Resisting Big Tech
Books on how and why to resist surveillance, the attention economy, and generative AI.
Surveillance, Tech, & AI
the conversation: best books of 2025
the conversation asked experts across australia to pick their favourite books of the year
*a couple missing from the list which aren't yet on pagebound
https://theconversation.com/best-books-of-2025-our-experts-share-their-picks-268875
AI Tech Skeptics
Books exploring the tools called "AI" from an ethical skeptic perspective & the implications of rampant tech expansionism.
Critical reads on technology and the tech industry
A list for us who see right through the bullshit of the Broligarchy
Tech, Techlash and refusal, AI and Algorithms
If you want to learn more about how algorithms and Artificial Intelligence work, and what they mean for society
Non fiction for nosy people
The greatest research skill you can have is being a nosy bitch who wants to find out
Tech bro target practice
Books that point the gun at tech bros and pull the trigger
AI literacy & ethics
the basis is Catharina Doriaβs list
