Resources
Living Intelligence, Embodied Cognition, etc.
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Technology, Media Ecology, and AI
- Alter, Adam. Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked. Reprint. Penguin Books, 2018.
- Carr, Nicholas. Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart. W. W. Norton & Company, 2025.
- Carr, Nicholas. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. W. W. Norton & Company, 2020.
- DiResta, Renée. "How Online Mobs Act Like Flocks Of Birds." Noema, November 3, 2022. https://www.noemamag.com/how-online-mobs-act-like-flocks-of-birds.
- Doctorow, Cory. Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It. MCD, 2025.
- Doctorow, Cory. The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation. Verso, 2024.
- Freitas, Donna. The Happiness Effect: How Social Media Is Driving a Generation to Appear Perfect at Any Cost. Illustrated. With Christian Smith. Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Haidt, Jonathan. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness. Penguin Press, 2024.
- Harari, Yuval Noah. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI. Random House, 2024.
- AI Now Institute. "Zero Trust AI Governance." AI Now Institute, August 10, 2023. https://ainowinstitute.org/publications/zero-trust-ai-governance.
- Kabakov, Joel N. Technofascism: The New World Disorder. Trine Day, 2022.
- Mayor, Adrienne. Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology. Princeton University Press, 2018.
- McLuhan, Marshall. The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man. University of Toronto Press, 2008.
- McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. Reprint. With Lewis H. Lapham. The MIT Press, 1994.
- Mumford, Lewis. Myth of the Machine: Technics and Human Development. Mariner Books, 1971.
- Mumford, Lewis. Pentagon Of Power: The Myth Of The Machine, Vol. II. Harcour, 1974.
- Mumford, Lewis. Technics and Civilization. University of Chicago Press, 2010.
- Norman, Donald A. Things That Make Us Smart. Reprint. Basic Books, 1994.
- O'Gieblyn, Meghan. God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning. Vintage, 2022.
- Postman, Neil. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. Revised. Penguin Books, 2005.
- Postman, Neil. Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology. 1st ed. Vintage, 1993.
- Tokunaga, Robert S. "A Meta-Analysis of the Relationships between Psychosocial Problems and Internet Habits: Synthesizing Internet Addiction, Problematic Internet Use, and Deficient Self-Regulation Research." Communication Monographs 84, no. 4 (2017): 423–46. https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2017.1332419.
- Turkle, Sherry. Alone Together. 3rd ed. Basic Books, 2017.
- Turkle, Sherry. Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age. Reprint. Penguin Books, 2016.
- Zuboff, Shoshana. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power. PublicAffairs, 2019.
Science Studies, Research, and Scientific Literacy
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Socioeconomics and Industry
- Benjamin, Ruha. Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want. Princeton University Press, 2022.
- Brown, Ellen Hodgson. Web of Debt: The Shocking Truth about Our Money System and How We Can Break Free. With Reed Simpson. Third Millennium Press, 2012.
- Cilliers, Paul, and Kurt Richardson, eds. Explorations in Complexity Thinking. ISCE Publishing, 2007.
- Cohen, Lizabeth. A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America. Vintage Books, 2008.
- Connolly, William. Political Theory and Modernity. Reprint edition. Basil Blackwell, 1989.
- Connolly, William E. Facing the Planetary: Entangled Humanism and the Politics of Swarming. Duke University Press Books, 2017.
- Connolly, William E. Neuropolitics: Thinking, Culture, Speed. Theory Out of Bounds 23. University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
- Eisenstein, Charles. Sacred Economics, Revised: Money, Gift & Society in the Age of Transition. Revised edition. North Atlantic Books, 2021.
- Eisenstein, Charles. The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible. North Atlantic Books, 2013.
- Fligstein, Neil. The Architecture of Markets: An Economic Sociology of Twenty-First-Century Capitalist Societies. Princeton University Press, 2002.
- Giordanengo, John H. Ecosystems as Models for Restoring Our Economies. AloTerra Restoration Services, 2021.
- Hawley, Josh. The Tyranny of Big Tech. Regnery, 2022.
- Hersey, Tricia. Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto. Little, Brown Spark, 2022.
- McMurtry, John. The Cancer Stage of Capitalism: From Crisis to Cure. Pluto Press, 2013.
- McMurtry, John. Value Wars: The Global Market Versus the Life Economy. Pluto Press, 2002.
- Oliveira, Vanessa Machado de. Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism. North Atlantic Books, 2021.
- Oliveira, Vanessa Machado de. Outgrowing Modernity: Navigating Complexity, Complicity, and Collapse with Accountability and Compassion. With Keri Facer and Awo Fatokun Faniyii. North Atlantic Books, 2025.
- Ploeg, Jan Douwe van der. The New Peasantries: Struggles for Autonomy and Sustainability in an Era of Empire and Globalization. Earthscan Publications Ltd., 2009.
- Polanyi, Karl. The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time. 2nd ed. Beacon Press, 2001.
- Primus, Mark A. "Social Tensegrity and Family Systems." Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment 0, no. 0 (2023): 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/10911359.2022.2153776.
- Rushkoff, Douglas. Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires. W. W. Norton & Company, 2023.
- Rushkoff, Douglas. Team Human. W. W. Norton & Company, 2021.
- Ryan, Christopher. Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress. Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, 2019.
- Shiva, Vandana. Oneness vs. the 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom. With Kartikey Shiva. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2020.
- Shiva, Vandana. Reclaiming the Commons: Biodiversity, Traditional Knowledge, and the Rights of Mother Earth. With Ronnie Cummins. Synergetic Press, 2020.
- Spence, Lester K. Knocking the Hustle: Against the Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics. Punctum Books, 2015.
- Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Reprint edition. Princeton University Press, 2021.
- Varoufakis, Yanis. Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism. Melville House, 2024.
- Wilkinson, Richard, and Kate Pickett. The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Well-Being. Illustrated edition. Penguin Press, 2019.
- Wolff, Richard D. The Sickness Is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself. Democracy at Work, 2020.
Social Disease
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The Medical Industrial Complex and Pharmaceuticals
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History
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