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=== Books ===  
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== LFP's big list of books, music, and film about surveillance, privacy, technology, power, and related things ==
  
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==== Fiction ====
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=== Books ===
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Infinite Detail, Tim Maughan
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The Circle, Dave Eggers
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==== Fiction and comics ====
  
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* Dick, Philip K. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1121629451
  
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* Doctorow, Cory. (Multiple titles).
  
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Cory Doctorow
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* Eggers, Dave. The Circle; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/962422592
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* Gibson, William. Pattern Recognition; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/849097652
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* Greenberg, Ivan. The Machine Never Blinks; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/799028822
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* Mason, Zachary. Void Star; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/981985815
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* Maughan, Tim. Infinite Detail; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1044776297
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* Newitz, Annalee. Autonomous; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1050365806
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* 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
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* North, Claire. 84K; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1076592275
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* 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
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* Quifan, Chen. Waste Tide; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1139836003
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* Scalzi, John. Lock In; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1107425317
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* Stephenson, Neal. Cryptonomicon; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232125263
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* Willis, Connie. Crosstalk; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1140502197
  
 
==== Non-fiction ====
 
==== Non-fiction ====
  
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* 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
 
* Angwin, Julia. Dragnet Nation: a quest for privacy, security, and freedom in a world of relentless surveillance; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/987779139
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* Barbrook, Richard. Imaginary Futures: from thinking machines to the global village; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/487427296
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* Bazzell, Michael. Extreme Privacy: What it takes to disappear in America; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1111909948
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* 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
 
* Berardi, Franco "Bifo". After the Future; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/669754829
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* 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
 
* Bridges, Khiara. The Poverty of Privacy Rights; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/960711727
  
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* Browne, Simone. Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/927159235
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* Bridle, James. New Dark Age: technology and the end of the future; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1127379673
  
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* Coleman, Gabriella. Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: the many faces of Anonymous; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/943012762
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* Broussard, Meredith. Artificial Unintelligence: how computers misunderstand the world; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1054377174
  
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* Crary, Jonathon. 24/7: late capitalism and the ends of sleep; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/898654689
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* Browne, Simone. Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/927159235
  
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* Dubrofsky, Rachel and Shoshana Magnet. Feminist Surveillance Studies; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/899275437
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* Brunton, Finn and Helen Fay Nissenbaum. Obfuscation: a user's guide to privacy and protest; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/956622937
  
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* Eubanks, Virginia. Automating Inequality: how high-tech tools profile, police, and punish the poor; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1019056202
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* Bucher, Taina. If... Then: Algorithmic Power and Politics; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1020639665
  
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* Haggerty, KD and RV Ericson. The Surveillant Assemblage; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/201507312
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* Citton, Yves and Barnaby Norman. The Ecology of Attention; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/969584083
  
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* Hennig, Nicole. Privacy and Security Online: best practices for cybersecurity; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1031483480
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* Coleman, Gabriella. Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: the many faces of Anonymous; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/943012762
  
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* Jacobs, James B. The Eternal Criminal Record; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/984823025
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* Curran, James, Natalie Fenton and Des Freedman. Misunderstanding the Internet; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1016133694
  
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* Lewis, Sarah Jamie. Queer Privacy; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1004830244
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* Dubrofsky, Rachel and Shoshana Magnet. Feminist Surveillance Studies; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/899275437
  
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* 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
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* Eubanks, Virginia. Automating Inequality: how high-tech tools profile, police, and punish the poor; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1019056202
  
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* Morozov, Evgeny. To Save Everything, Click Here: the folly of technological solutionism; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/891068581
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* Eubanks, Virginia. Digital Dead End: fighting for social justice in the information age; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/723260111
  
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* Noble, Safiya. Algorithms of Oppression: how search engines reinforce racism; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/987591529
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* Greenfield, Adam. Radical technologies: the design of everyday life; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1061269826
  
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* O'Neil, Kathy. Weapons of Math Destruction; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/965474817
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* Greenwald, Glenn. No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the US surveillance state; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/976455876
  
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* Scheer, Robert. They Know Everything About You: How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/905686226
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* Haggerty, KD and RV Ericson. The Surveillant Assemblage; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/201507312
  
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* Srnicek, Nick. Platform Capitalism; https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/08/07/noma-studios-incognito-protects-against-facial-recognition-algorithms/
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* Haraway, Donna. A Cyborg Manifesto; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1091311575
  
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* 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
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* Hennig, Nicole. Privacy and Security Online: best practices for cybersecurity; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1031483480
  
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* Wu, Tim. The Master Switch: the rise and fall of information empires; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/907029339
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* Kaplan, Fred. Dark Territory: the secret history of cyberwar; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/951158926
  
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* 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
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* Lanier, Jaron. Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Right Now; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1076509683
  
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=== Films ===
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* Larson, Rob. Bit Tyrants: the political economy of Silicon Valley; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1131819402
  
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==== Documentary ====
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* Levy, Steven. In the Plex: how Google thinks, works, and shapes our lives; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/752793949
  
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The Internet’s Own Boy
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* Lewis, Sarah Jamie. Queer Privacy; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1004830244
  
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The Great Hack
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* Liu, Wendy. Abolish Silicon Valley: how to liberate technology from capitalism; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1159666070
  
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* Lovelock, James. Novacene: the coming age of hyperintelligence; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1104066697
  
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_featuring_surveillance
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* 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
  
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* Enemy of the State
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* Lovink, Geert. Sad By Design: on platform nihilism; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1057374931
  
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* Medina, Eden. Cybernetic Revolutionaries; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/880401177
  
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The Net
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* 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
  
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The Conversation (with Gene Hackman)
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* Noble, Safiya. Algorithms of Oppression: how search engines reinforce racism; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/987591529
  
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The Circle
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* Odell, Jenny. How To Do Nothing: Resisting the attention economy; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1085144412
  
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The Last Enemy
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* O'Neil, Kathy. Weapons of Math Destruction; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/965474817
  
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The Truman Show
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* 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
  
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=== Articles ===
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* Pasquale, Frank. The Black Box Society: the secret algorithms that control money and information; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1146542066
  
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==== General articles about privacy and surveillance or foundational pieces ====
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* Powers, Shane and Michael Jablonski. The Real Cyber War: the political economy of internet freedom; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1004364817
  
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[https://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy-technology/internet-privacy ACLU's internet privacy resource center]
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* Rankin, Joy Lisi. A People's History of Computing in the United States; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1023100261
  
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[https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/ifi/INF3700/v17/bakgrunnsnotat/the_surveillant_assemblage.pdf The Surveillant Assemblage]
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* Richards, Neil. Intellectual Privacy: Rethinking Civil Liberties in the Digital Age http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1002859160
  
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==== Corporate surveillance, general ====
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* Scheer, Robert. They Know Everything About You: How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/905686226
  
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[https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.html How companies learn your secrets]
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* 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
  
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[https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/109-facebook-spying Is Facebook spying on you? (Reply All episode)]
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* Srnicek, Nick. Platform Capitalism; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/956434913
  
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==== Facebook/Cambridge Analytica Scandal ====
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* Stone, Brad. The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the age of Amazon; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1123218219
  
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[https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump ‘I made Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool’: meet the data war whistleblower]
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* Vaidyanathan, Siva. AntiSocialMedia: how facebook disconnects us and undermines democracy; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1088927430
  
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==== Know Your Rights ====
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* Vaidyanathan, Siva. The Googlization of Everything: and why we should worry; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/799028822
  
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[https://www.nlg.org/know-your-rights/ National Lawyers' Guild Know Your Rights guides in multiple languages]
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* Wachter-Boettcher, Sara. Technically wrong: sexist apps, biased algorithms, and other threats of toxic tech; https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1021803906
  
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[http://www.ala.org/advocacy/privacy/statelaws Library privacy laws by state]
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* Weinberger, Sharon. Imagineers of War: the untold story of DARPA, the Pentagon agency that changed the world; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1026506926
  
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==== Metadata ====
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* Wolfson, Todd. Digital Rebellion: the birth of the cyber left; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1004351848
  
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[https://mascherari.press/the-first-contact-problem-getting-to-securedrop/ The First Contact Problem: Getting to SecureDrop]
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* 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
  
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[https://www.justsecurity.org/10311/michael-hayden-kill-people-based-metadata/ "We Kill People Based on Metadata"]
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* Wu, Tim. The Master Switch: the rise and fall of information empires; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/907029339
  
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==== NSA surveillance ====
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* 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
  
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[https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying EFF's NSA surveillance resource center]
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=== Films ===
  
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==== Social media surveillance ====
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* Big list from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_featuring_surveillance
  
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[https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2017/nov/09/social-media-surveillance-2017/ Social media surveillance guide from MuckRock]
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==== Fiction ====
  
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==== Surveillance of immigrants ====
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* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_Nation ''Assassination Nation'']
  
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[https://www.thedailybeast.com/exclusive-read-the-ice-agents-guide-to-nsa-surveillance ICE Agents guide to NSA surveillance]
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* ''The Circle''
  
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[https://lab.witness.org/using-facebook-in-an-era-of-mass-deportation/ Using Facebook in an era of mass deportation]
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* ''The Conversation'' (with Gene Hackman)
  
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[https://gizmodo.com/ice-agents-are-using-stingray-surveillance-tech-to-capt-1795377902 Federal agents are now using Stingrays to track and capture undocumented immigrants]
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* ''Enemy of the State''
  
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[https://www.newsweek.com/ice-just-signed-24m-contract-secretive-data-surveillance-company-can-track-you-962493 ICE just launched a $2.4 million contract with a secretive data surveillance company that tracks you in real time]
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* ''The Last Enemy''
  
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[https://www.democracynow.org/2018/4/27/web_bonus_alejandra_pablos_on_being Alejandra Pablos on Being Targeted & Detained by ICE for Her Activism]
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* ''Modern Family'' episodes "Connection Lost" (Season 6, Episode 16), and "iSpy" (Season 5, episode 14)
  
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==== Stingrays ====
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* ''The Net''
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[https://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy-technology/surveillance-technologies/stingray-tracking-devices-whos-got-them ACLU's guide to who has Stingrays]
 
  
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==== Surveillance and marginalized communities, general ====
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* ''The Truman Show''
  
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[https://thenewinquiry.com/privacy-for-whom/ Privacy for whom?]
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==== Documentary ====
  
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[https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-advertising-discrimination-housing-race-sex-national-origin Facebook (Still) Letting Housing Advertisers Exclude Users by Race]
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* The Great Hack
  
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[https://firstmonday.org/article/view/3821/3199#11 Digital inclusion and data profiling]
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* The Internet’s Own Boy
  
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[https://www.aclu.org/other/factsheet-nypd-muslim-surveillance-program NYPD's surveillance of Muslims]
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=== TV Series ===
  
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==== Video surveillance ====
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* ''Mr. Robot''
  
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[https://www.academia.edu/2395122/Video_Surveillance_in_Public_Libraries_a_Case_of_Unintended_Consequences Video Surveillance in Public Libraries: a Case of Unintended Consequences?]
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=== Music ===
  
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[https://www.aclu.org/other/whats-wrong-public-video-surveillance What's wrong with public video surveillance?]
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* 2 Chainz: Feds Watching
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* A-Frames: Electric Eye
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* A-Frames: Surveillance Camera
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* Anais Mitchell: 1984
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* Anderson.Paak: Tints
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* ANOHNI: Watch Me
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* Barenaked Ladies: Get In Line
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* Bauhaus: The Spy in the Cab
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* The Beatles: Everybody's Got Something to Hide
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* Beauty Pill: Quote Devout Unquote
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* Belgrado: 1000 Spektakli
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* Black Sabbath: Electric Eye
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* Blondie: One Way or Another
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* Bruce Springsteen: Brilliant Disguise
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* The Buggles: Video Killed the Radio Star
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* The Clash: Know Your Rights
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* Clay Aiken: Invisible
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* Crass: Big A, Little A
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* Criminal Code: Surveillance
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* Dead Kennedys: Shrink
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* Dead Prez: Police State
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* Death Grips: I've Seen Footage
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* Eurythmics: Ministry of Love
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* The Feelies: Everybody's Got Something to Hide
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* Ghost Cop: One Weird Trick
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* Hidden Citizens: Somebody's Watching Me
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* Homeboy Sandman & Edan: #NeverUsetheInternetAgain
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* Humanwine: Big Brother
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* Ice T (With Jello Biafra): Freedom of Speech
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* Kacey Musgraves: Biscuits
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* Kojey Radical: No Photos
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* Laurie Anderson: O Superman (For Massenet)
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* Magazine: Definitive Gaze
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* M.I.A: The Message
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* Minutement: Shit You Hear At Parties
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* Mobb Deep: Temperature's Rising
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* New Model Army: 225
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* Nots: Surveillance Veil
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* The Police: Every Breath You Take
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* Priests: Not Perceived
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* Radiohead: Fitter, Happier
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* Robyn Hitchcock: I Watch the Cars
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* Rockwell: Somebody's Watching Me
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* Second Still: Spiders & Spies
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* Spectres: Remote Viewing
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* Star One: Two Plus Two Equals Five
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* Superorganism: Everybody Wants to Be Famous
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* Terrible Feelings: The Devil's Watching
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* Diät: We
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* WTCHCRFT: Surveillance
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* Van Morrison: Just Like Greta
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* Yo La Tengo: Nothing to Hide
  
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[https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/47307/132_ready.pdf The Panoptic Librarian: The Role of Video Surveillance in the Modern Public Library]
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Those interested might also enjoy Jonathan Coulton's concept album and accompanying graphic novel, ''Solid State'': [https://wiki.jonathancoulton.com/Solid_State]
  
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==== Youth and privacy ====
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A somewhat up-to-date Spotify playlist of the above: https://open.spotify.com/user/f7i2lvo1pph4m20py074qls4j/playlist/7pu2Tqr9NFmMCV0cQEA4ze
  
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[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1925128 Social Privacy in Networked Publics: Teens’ Attitudes, Practices, and Strategies]
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== LFP Book Club ==
  
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[https://www.eff.org/issues/student-privacy EFF's student privacy resource center]
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* '''February 2021:''' ''Simulacra and Simulation'' by Jean Baudrillard
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* '''October 2021:''' ''Mutual Aid'' by Dean Spade
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* '''November 2021:''' ''Teaching to Transgress'' by bell hooks
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* '''December 2021:''' ''The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study'' by Frank Moten and Stefano Harney
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* '''January 2022:''' ''Suprime Attention Crisis'' by Tim Hwang
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* '''February 2022:''' ''“I Have Nothing to Hide” And 20 Other Myths About Surveillance and Privacy'' by Heidi Boghosian
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* '''March 2022:''' ''Power to the Public'' by Tara Dawson McGuinness and Hana Schank (https://press.princeton.edu/taxonomy/term/24024)
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* '''April 2022:''' ''What Tech Calls Thinking'' by Adrian Daub (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374721237/whattechcallsthinking)
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* '''May 2022:''' ''Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code'' by Ruha Benjamin
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* '''June 2022:''' ''Semi Queer: Inside the World of Gay, Trans, and Black Truck Drivers'' by Anne Balay
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* '''October 2022:''' ''The Case Against Free Speech'' by PE Moskowitz
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* '''November 2022:''' ''Internet for the People'' by Ben Tarnoff
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* '''March 2022:''' ''No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age'' by Jane McAlevey
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* '''April 2022:''' ''Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds' by Adrienne Maree Brown
  
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[https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/02/school-librarian-caught-middle-student-privacy-extremes A School Librarian Caught In The Middle of Student Privacy Extremes]
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'''Potential Future Titles'''
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* ''How to do Nothing'' by Jenny O'Dell
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* ''Seek and Hide'' by Amy Adja (publishes April 2022)
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* ''The Alignment Problem'' by Brian Christiansen
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* ''Internet for the People'' by Ben Ternoff (publishes June 2022: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3927-internet-for-the-people)
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* ''New Dark Age'' by James Bridle
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* '' Becoming Abolitionists'' by Derecka Purnell
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* ''Uncomputable: Play and Politics in the Long Digital Age'' by Alexander Galloway
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* ''Capital Is Dead: Is This Something Worse?'' by McKenzie Wark
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* '' Future Histories'' by Lizzie O’Shea
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* '' Care Manifesto'' by The Care Collective
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* ''Prisms of the People: Power & Organizing in Twenty-First-Century America'' by Hahrie Han, Elizabeth McKenna, and Michelle Oyakawa
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* ''Hope in the Dark'' by Rebecca Solnit (maybe paired with Derrick Jensen's "Beyond Hope")'
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* ''From Counterculture to Cyberculture'' by Fred Turner (hard to come by so give enough notice for people to track down a copy)
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* ''The Promise of Access: Technology, inequality, and the political economy of hope'' by David Green
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* ''Trafficking data: How China is winning the battle for digital sovereignty'' by Anyone Kokas
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* ''The Digital Closet: How the Internet Became Straight'' by Alexander Monea (could be good for Pride month?!)
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* ''Queer data : using gender, sex and sexuality data for action'' by Kevin Guyan (Choice Reviews: Community College recommendation)

Latest revision as of 02:07, 29 February 2024

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

Books[edit]

Please include WorldCat permalink.

Fiction and comics[edit]

  • Doctorow, Cory. (Multiple titles).

Non-fiction[edit]

  • 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

Films[edit]

Fiction[edit]

  • 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[edit]

  • The Great Hack
  • The Internet’s Own Boy

TV Series[edit]

  • Mr. Robot

Music[edit]

  • 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: [1]

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

LFP Book Club[edit]

  • 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
  • November 2022: Internet for the People by Ben Tarnoff
  • March 2022: No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane McAlevey
  • April 2022: Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds' by Adrienne Maree Brown

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
  • Prisms of the People: Power & Organizing in Twenty-First-Century America by Hahrie Han, Elizabeth McKenna, and Michelle Oyakawa
  • 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
  • The Digital Closet: How the Internet Became Straight by Alexander Monea (could be good for Pride month?!)
  • Queer data : using gender, sex and sexuality data for action by Kevin Guyan (Choice Reviews: Community College recommendation)
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