What am I reading?

Here are some of the books that I read in recent years (or, am currently reading) that I really enjoyed and found instructive!

Pedagogy of the oppressed by Paulo Freire

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad

We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Mariame Kaba

Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by

Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin

Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez

Data Feminism by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein

Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech by Brian Merchant

Why Trust Science? by Naomi Oreskes

Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence by Kate Crawford

Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff

Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want by Ruha Benjamin

Imagination: A Manifesto by Ruha Benjamin

Meme Wars: How the Fringe Conquered the Mainstream by Joan Donovan, Emily Dreyfuss, and Brian Friedberg

Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela

So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas

Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber

The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

In addition to the above books, I also highly recommend the following documentaries and podcasts.

Documentaries

Podcasts and episodes

The Tech Policy Press Podcast presents The Whiteness of Mastodon

The Whiteness of Mastodon

The Santiago Boys

The Santiago Boys