Smoke screen

Interrogating the story behind “artificial intelligence.”

Saving Time

Jenny Odell

“This book is my panoramic assault on nihilism.”

My Trade Is Mystery

Carl Phillips

An invitation to get lost, and to make oneself at ease in that place of mystery.

Starfish

Peter Watts

A group of people “preadapted” to danger and stress have been recruited to run a power station at the bottom of the Pacific.

Resisting AI

Dan McQuillan

“AI presents a technological shift in the framework of society that will amplify austerity while enabling authoritarian politics.”

Elite Capture

Olúfémi O. Táíwò

A cogent argument about how the elite has coopted identity politics in order to deliver a facade of change while leaving the underlying structures of racial capitalism in place.

The Burnout Society

Byung-Chul Han

The modern day worker, argues Byung-Chul Han, is an “entrepreneur of themselves.”

Undrowned

Alexis Pauline Gumbs

“I believe in the possibility of dorsal, or stabilizing practices in our own lives.”

Strangers to Ourselves asks questions about how we name and respond to people with “unsettled” minds.

This compact and intense treatise argues that we are living through a crisis of community and attendant loss of ritual power.

The City and the City

China Miéville

Inspector Tyador Borlú serves on the Extreme Crime Squad in the city of Besźel.

Rest Is Resistance

Tricia Hersey

Tricia Hersey—aka “The Nap Bishop”—is here to tell us to rest, and I am ready to listen.