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== LFP's big list of books, music, and film about surveillance, privacy, technology, power, and related things ==

=== Books ===

Please include WorldCat permalink. 

==== Fiction and comics ====

* Dick, Philip K. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1121629451

* Doctorow, Cory. (Multiple titles).

* Eggers, Dave. The Circle; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/962422592

* Gibson, William. Pattern Recognition; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/849097652

* Greenberg, Ivan. The Machine Never Blinks; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/799028822

* Mason, Zachary. Void Star; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/981985815

* Maughan, Tim. Infinite Detail; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1044776297

* Newitz, Annalee. Autonomous; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1050365806

* Newman, Emma. Planetfall (series); Planetfall http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1005112768; After Atlas http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1031977336; Before Mars http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1107160812; Atlas Alone http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1105362157

* North, Claire. 84K; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1076592275

* Older, Malka. The Centenal Cycle (series); Infomocracy http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1090619269; Null States http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1011544915; State Tectonics http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1107985577

* Quifan, Chen. Waste Tide; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1139836003

* Scalzi, John. Lock In; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1107425317

* Stephenson, Neal. Cryptonomicon; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232125263

* Willis, Connie. Crosstalk; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1140502197

==== Non-fiction ====

* Abbate, Janet. Inventing the Internet; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/475739515

* Angwin, Julia. Dragnet Nation: a quest for privacy, security, and freedom in a world of relentless surveillance; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/987779139

* Barbrook, Richard. Imaginary Futures: from thinking machines to the global village; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/487427296

* Bazzell, Michael. Extreme Privacy: What it takes to disappear in America; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1111909948

* Benjamin, Ruha: Race After Technology: abolitionist tools for the New Jim Code; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1132433199

* Berardi, Franco "Bifo". After the Future; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/669754829

* Bratton, Benjamin. The Stack: on software and sovereignty; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1117252630

* Bridges, Khiara. The Poverty of Privacy Rights; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/960711727

* Bridle, James. New Dark Age: technology and the end of the future; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1127379673

* Broussard, Meredith. Artificial Unintelligence: how computers misunderstand the world; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1054377174

* Browne, Simone. Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/927159235

* Brunton, Finn and Helen Fay Nissenbaum. Obfuscation: a user's guide to privacy and protest; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/956622937

* Bucher, Taina. If... Then: Algorithmic Power and Politics; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1020639665

* Citton, Yves and Barnaby Norman. The Ecology of Attention; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/969584083

* Coleman, Gabriella. Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: the many faces of Anonymous; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/943012762

* Curran, James, Natalie Fenton and Des Freedman. Misunderstanding the Internet; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1016133694

* Dubrofsky, Rachel and Shoshana Magnet. Feminist Surveillance Studies; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/899275437

* Eubanks, Virginia. Automating Inequality: how high-tech tools profile, police, and punish the poor; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1019056202

* Eubanks, Virginia. Digital Dead End: fighting for social justice in the information age; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/723260111

* Greenfield, Adam. Radical technologies: the design of everyday life; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1061269826

* Greenwald, Glenn. No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the US surveillance state; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/976455876

* Haggerty, KD and RV Ericson. The Surveillant Assemblage; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/201507312

* Haraway, Donna. A Cyborg Manifesto; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1091311575

* Hennig, Nicole. Privacy and Security Online: best practices for cybersecurity; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1031483480

* Kaplan, Fred. Dark Territory: the secret history of cyberwar; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/951158926

* Lanier, Jaron. Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Right Now; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1076509683

* Larson, Rob. Bit Tyrants: the political economy of Silicon Valley; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1131819402

* Levy, Steven. In the Plex: how Google thinks, works, and shapes our lives; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/752793949

* Lewis, Sarah Jamie. Queer Privacy; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1004830244

* Liu, Wendy. Abolish Silicon Valley: how to liberate technology from capitalism; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1159666070

* Lovelock, James. Novacene: the coming age of hyperintelligence; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1104066697

* Luna, JJ. How to Be Invisible: a step-by-step guide to protecting your assets, your identity, and your life; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43445639

* Lovink, Geert. Sad By Design: on platform nihilism; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1057374931

* Medina, Eden. Cybernetic Revolutionaries; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/880401177

* Mitnick, Kevin. The Art of Invisibility: the world's most famous hacker teaches you how to be safe in the age of Big Brother and big data; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1129116293

* Noble, Safiya. Algorithms of Oppression: how search engines reinforce racism; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/987591529

* Odell, Jenny. How To Do Nothing: Resisting the attention economy; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1085144412

* O'Neil, Kathy. Weapons of Math Destruction; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/965474817

* Payton, Theresa. and Ted Claypoole. Privacy in the Age of Big Data: recognizing threats, defending your rights, and protecting your Family;  http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1100662031

* Pasquale, Frank. The Black Box Society: the secret algorithms that control money and information; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1146542066

* Powers, Shane and Michael Jablonski. The Real Cyber War: the political economy of internet freedom; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1004364817

* Rankin, Joy Lisi. A People's History of Computing in the United States; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1023100261

* Richards, Neil. Intellectual Privacy: Rethinking Civil Liberties in the Digital Age http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1002859160

* Scheer, Robert. They Know Everything About You: How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/905686226

* Scholz, Trebor and Nathan Schneider. Ours to Hack and Own: the rise of platform cooperativism, a new vision for the future of work and a fairer internet; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/973379070

* Srnicek, Nick. Platform Capitalism; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/956434913

* Stone, Brad. The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the age of Amazon; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1123218219

* Vaidyanathan, Siva. AntiSocialMedia: how facebook disconnects us and undermines democracy; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1088927430

* Vaidyanathan, Siva. The Googlization of Everything: and why we should worry; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/799028822

* Wachter-Boettcher, Sara. Technically wrong: sexist apps, biased algorithms, and other threats of toxic tech; https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1021803906

* Weinberger, Sharon. Imagineers of War: the untold story of DARPA, the Pentagon agency that changed the world; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1026506926

* Wolfson, Todd. Digital Rebellion: the birth of the cyber left; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1004351848

* Wu, Tim. The Attention Merchants: from the daily newspaper to social media, how our time and attention is harvested and sold; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1039630624

* Wu, Tim. The Master Switch: the rise and fall of information empires; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/907029339

* Zuboff, Shoshana. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1098195036

=== Films ===

* Big list from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_featuring_surveillance

==== Fiction ==== 

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_Nation ''Assassination Nation'']

* ''The Circle''

* ''The Conversation'' (with Gene Hackman)

* ''Enemy of the State''

* ''The Last Enemy''

* ''Modern Family'' episodes "Connection Lost" (Season 6, Episode 16), and "iSpy" (Season 5, episode 14)

* ''The Net''

* ''The Truman Show''

==== Documentary ====

* The Great Hack

* The Internet’s Own Boy

=== TV Series ===

* ''Mr. Robot''

=== Music ===

* 2 Chainz: Feds Watching
* A-Frames: Electric Eye
* A-Frames: Surveillance Camera
* Anais Mitchell: 1984
* Anderson.Paak: Tints
* ANOHNI: Watch Me
* Barenaked Ladies: Get In Line
* Bauhaus: The Spy in the Cab
* The Beatles: Everybody's Got Something to Hide
* Beauty Pill: Quote Devout Unquote
* Belgrado: 1000 Spektakli
* Black Sabbath: Electric Eye
* Blondie: One Way or Another
* Bruce Springsteen: Brilliant Disguise
* The Buggles: Video Killed the Radio Star
* The Clash: Know Your Rights
* Clay Aiken: Invisible
* Crass: Big A, Little A
* Criminal Code: Surveillance
* Dead Kennedys: Shrink
* Dead Prez: Police State
* Death Grips: I've Seen Footage
* Eurythmics: Ministry of Love
* The Feelies: Everybody's Got Something to Hide
* Ghost Cop: One Weird Trick
* Hidden Citizens: Somebody's Watching Me
* Homeboy Sandman & Edan: #NeverUsetheInternetAgain
* Humanwine: Big Brother
* Ice T (With Jello Biafra): Freedom of Speech
* Kacey Musgraves: Biscuits
* Kojey Radical: No Photos
* Laurie Anderson: O Superman (For Massenet)
* Magazine: Definitive Gaze
* M.I.A: The Message
* Minutement: Shit You Hear At Parties
* Mobb Deep: Temperature's Rising
* New Model Army: 225
* Nots: Surveillance Veil
* The Police: Every Breath You Take
* Priests: Not Perceived
* Radiohead: Fitter, Happier
* Robyn Hitchcock: I Watch the Cars
* Rockwell: Somebody's Watching Me
* Second Still: Spiders & Spies
* Spectres: Remote Viewing
* Star One: Two Plus Two Equals Five
* Superorganism: Everybody Wants to Be Famous
* Terrible Feelings: The Devil's Watching
* Diät: We
* WTCHCRFT: Surveillance
* Van Morrison: Just Like Greta 
* Yo La Tengo: Nothing to Hide

Those interested might also enjoy Jonathan Coulton's concept album and accompanying graphic novel, ''Solid State'': [https://wiki.jonathancoulton.com/Solid_State]

A somewhat up-to-date Spotify playlist of the above: https://open.spotify.com/user/f7i2lvo1pph4m20py074qls4j/playlist/7pu2Tqr9NFmMCV0cQEA4ze

== LFP Book Club ==

* '''February 2021:''' ''Simulacra and Simulation'' by Jean Baudrillard
* '''October 2021:''' ''Mutual Aid'' by Dean Spade
* '''November 2021:''' ''Teaching to Transgress'' by bell hooks
* '''December 2021:''' ''The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study'' by Frank Moten and Stefano Harney
* '''January 2022:''' ''Suprime Attention Crisis'' by Tim Hwang
* '''February 2022:''' ''“I Have Nothing to Hide” And 20 Other Myths About Surveillance and Privacy'' by Heidi Boghosian
* '''March 2022:''' ''Power to the Public'' by Tara Dawson McGuinness and Hana Schank (https://press.princeton.edu/taxonomy/term/24024)
* '''April 2022:''' ''What Tech Calls Thinking'' by Adrian Daub (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374721237/whattechcallsthinking)
* '''May 2022:''' ''Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code'' by Ruha Benjamin
* '''June 2022:''' ''Semi Queer: Inside the World of Gay, Trans, and Black Truck Drivers'' by Anne Balay
* '''October 2022:''' ''The Case Against Free Speech'' by PE Moskowitz

'''Potential Future Titles'''
* ''How to do Nothing'' by Jenny O'Dell
* ''Seek and Hide'' by Amy Adja (publishes April 2022)
* ''The Alignment Problem'' by Brian Christiansen
* ''Internet for the People'' by Ben Ternoff (publishes June 2022: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3927-internet-for-the-people)
* ''New Dark Age'' by James Bridle
* '' Becoming Abolitionists'' by Derecka Purnell 
* ''Uncomputable: Play and Politics in the Long Digital Age'' by Alexander Galloway
* ''Capital Is Dead: Is This Something Worse?'' by McKenzie Wark
* '' Future Histories'' by Lizzie O’Shea 
* '' Care Manifesto'' by The Care Collective
* ''Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds' by Adrienne Maree Brown
* ''Prisms of the People: Power & Organizing in Twenty-First-Century America'' by Hahrie Han, Elizabeth McKenna, and Michelle Oyakawa
* ''No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age'' by Jane McAlevey
* ''Hope in the Dark'' by Rebecca Solnit (maybe paired with Derrick Jensen's "Beyond Hope")'
* ''From Counterculture to Cyberculture'' by Fred Turner (hard to come by so give enough notice for people to track down a copy)
* ''The Promise of Access: Technology, inequality, and the political economy of hope'' by David Green
* ''Trafficking data: How China is winning the battle for digital sovereignty'' by Anyone Kokas