Techno-Dystopic Book Club 📚
In recent years, I've noticed an uptick in the number of mainstream techno-criticism books being published — or perhaps it's just that I started paying attention. Either way, it prompted me to work my way back up the chain to try to find an origin point for the contemporary techno-critique, and then work my way back down chronologically. I remember some of these from back when they were published, but many are completely new to me. I will note them down here for reference as I come across them, with the intention of returning to the ones that I end up reading.
- Keen, Andrew (2007, 2011) The Cult of the Amateur [Revised]
- Zittrain, Jonathan (2008) The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It
- Golumbia, David (2009) Cultural Logic of Computation
- Lanier, Jaron (2010) You Are Not A Gadget
- Rushkoff, Douglas (2010, 2024) Program or Be Programmed
- Keen, Andrew (2012) Digital Vertigo
- Rushkoff, Douglas (2013) Present Shock
- Keen, Andrew (2015) The Internet Is Not The Answer
- O'Neil, Cathy (2016) Weapons of Math Destruction
- Rushkoff, Douglas (2016) Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus
- Carr, Nicholas (2016) Utopia Is Creepy
- Foer, Franklin (2017) World Without Mind
- Taplin, Jonathan (2017) Move Fast and Break Things
- Bridle, James (2018) New Dark Age
- Zuboff, Shoshana (2019) The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
- Durand, Cédric (2020) Technoféodalisme [Canada] [English]
- Ball, James (2020) The Tangled Web We Weave
- Wiener, Anna (2020) Uncanny Valley
- Daub, Adrian (2020) What Tech Calls Thinking
- Kende, Michael (2021) The Flip Side of Free
- Harris, Malcolm (2023) Palo Alto
- Doctorow, Cory (2023) The Internet Con
- Merchant, Brian (2023) Blood in the Machine
- Taplin, Jonathan (2023) The End of Reality
- Martineau, Jonathan & Durand Folco, Jonathan (2023) Le capital algorithmique
- Damasio, Alain (2024) Vallée du silicium
- Sinnreich, Aram & Gilbert, Jesse (2024) The Secret Life of Data
- Varoufakis, Yanis (2024) Technofeudalism
- Mhalla, Asma (2024) Technopolitique [Canada]
- Carr, Nicholas (2025) Superbloom
- Sadowski, Jathan (2025) The Mechanic and the Luddite
- Doctorow, Cory (2025) Enshittification
- Wu, Tim (2025) The Age of Extraction
- Hao, Karen (2025) Empire of AI
- Wynn-Williams, Sarah (2025) Careless People
- Silverman, Jacob (2025) Gilded Rage
- Mhalla, Asma (2025) Cyberpunk [Canada]
- Hadjadji, Nastasia & Tesquet, Olivier (2025) Apocalypse Nerds [Canada]
- Ajari, Norman (2026) Technofascisme [Canada]
- Marx, Paris (2026) Hyperscale
- Doctorow, Cory (2026) The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI
- Zitron, Ed (2026) Why Everything Stopped Working