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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

  • Doctorow, Cory. (Multiple titles).

Non-fiction

  • 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

Fiction

  • 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
  • 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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