Difference between revisions of "Main Page/Reading List"

From Library Freedom Wiki Page
Jump to navigation Jump to search
(Books)
(Undo revision 433208 by 205.154.246.144 (talk))
(Tag: Undo)
 
(29 intermediate revisions by 15 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
 +
== LFP's big list of books, music, and film about surveillance, privacy, technology, power, and related things ==
 +
 
=== Books ===
 
=== Books ===
  
Line 10: Line 12:
  
 
* Eggers, Dave. The Circle; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/962422592
 
* 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
 
* 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
 
* Maughan, Tim. Infinite Detail; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1044776297
  
* Anderson, Poul. "Sam Hall" (short story); http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?55890
+
* 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 ====
 
==== Non-fiction ====
Line 116: Line 136:
  
 
* Vaidyanathan, Siva. The Googlization of Everything: and why we should worry; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/799028822
 
* 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
 
* Weinberger, Sharon. Imagineers of War: the untold story of DARPA, the Pentagon agency that changed the world; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1026506926
Line 154: Line 176:
  
 
* The Internet’s Own Boy
 
* The Internet’s Own Boy
 +
 +
=== TV Series ===
 +
 +
* ''Mr. Robot''
  
 
=== Music ===
 
=== Music ===
  
 
* 2 Chainz: Feds Watching
 
* 2 Chainz: Feds Watching
 +
* A-Frames: Electric Eye
 +
* A-Frames: Surveillance Camera
 
* Anais Mitchell: 1984
 
* Anais Mitchell: 1984
 
* Anderson.Paak: Tints
 
* Anderson.Paak: Tints
Line 209: Line 237:
  
 
Those interested might also enjoy Jonathan Coulton's concept album and accompanying graphic novel, ''Solid State'': [https://wiki.jonathancoulton.com/Solid_State]
 
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
 +
* '''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)

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)