Graphs, Maps, Trees

Franco Moretti

An academic treatise that argues that rather than reading books, we should be mining them for data.

Playing the Whore

Melissa Gira Grant

The thesis of Melissa Gira Grant’s Playing The Whore is simple: sex work is work.

New Dark Age

James Bridle

James Bridle’s astute and critical eye breaks down the many ways in which technology—once heralded as the key to truly knowing the world—has in fact brought about an era of misinformation, conspiracy theories, and post-factual politics: in short, a new dark age.

The End of Policing

Alex S. Vitale

A clear and thorough indictment of every part of the institution that is policing—and an urgent call to end it.

How to Blow Up a Pipeline

Andreas Malm

This is a clear-eyed call for the climate movement to go beyond peaceful protest in order to avert ecological collapse.

Breaking Things at Work

Gavin Mueller

A brisk read that locates echoes of Luddism in current practices like the free software and right-to-repair movements, and makes the case for rescuing Luddism from the dustheap.

Lifehouse

Adam Greenfield

Adam Greenfield proposes a strategy for surviving the climate crisis: Lifehouses, or a network of places of care, mutual aid, resource distribution, and solidarity.

Mutual Aid

Dean Spade

A concise primer on the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.

Burnout

Hannah Proctor

Hannah Proctor visits the concept of burnout as the experience of political defeat—the disappointment, despair, and grief that emerges when one becomes aware that the political project they have committed themselves to may not succeed.