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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

• 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: [1]

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
• November 2022: Internet for the People by Ben Tarnoff

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
• 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)