Books on how and why to resist surveillance, the attention economy, and generative AI.
created by rage_of_aquarius
last updated July, 2026
Fake AI
Frederike Kaltheuner
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Jenny Odell
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Safiya Umoja Noble
The New Age of Sexism: How AI and Emerging Technologies Are Reinventing Misogyny
Laura Bates
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
Yanis Varoufakis
Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist
Liz Pelly
Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
Ashley Shew
Surveillance: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
David Lyon
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
Brian Merchant
More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity
Adam Becker
The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
Antony Loewenstein
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
Cory Doctorow
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
Karen Hao
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Neil Postman
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Shoshana Zuboff
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
Kyle Chayka
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