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.
An engine of precaritization
On Resisting AI
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.
Tolerance for boredom
On The Burnout Society & Madness, Rack, and Honey
Between-time
On The Burnout Society
The Burnout Society
Byung-Chul Han
The modern day worker, argues Byung-Chul Han, is an “entrepreneur of themselves.”
Your labor isn’t a sign of defeat
On Several Short Sentences About Writing & Bird by Bird
Not knowing
On The Left Hand of Darkness
Undrowned
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
“I believe in the possibility of dorsal, or stabilizing practices in our own lives.”
Strangers to Ourselves
Rachel Aviv
Strangers to Ourselves asks questions about how we name and respond to people with “unsettled” minds.
Out of time
On the time for rest.
The Disappearance of Rituals
Byung-Chul Han
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.