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.
Ships have feelings
On Ancillary Justice
Radical consensus
On Ways of Being
Ways of Being
James Bridle
Amid a drive for more “artificial” intelligence, James Bridle here asks what counts as intelligence, and then reframes fears about a future AI takeover into more productive—and present—ends.
Nona the Ninth
Tamsyn Muir
In the third book of the Locked Tomb series, Nona lives with her friends Camilla, Palamedes, and Pyrrha in a cramped apartment in a tall building in a city menaced by a great hulking creature in the sky.
Official myths
Let’s engage with office culture as it really is, not how we imagine it used to be.
The Gone-Away World
Nick Harkaway
A world-ending weapon that makes its targets “go away” has, perhaps predictably, gone awry and left large parts of the world uninhabitable.