Hi folks. Long-time lurker, first-time poster.
I read a lot of contemporary non-fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, and theory. Some of what I've been reading the past couple of years is not really aligned with my personal beliefs but more so that I can try and understand different points of view. I'd like to continue with this but in a genre or subject matter area I'm not really familiar with.
Feel free to drop a recommendation of a book with no spoilers! I like going in somewhat blind. Can be fiction or non-fiction. Really just anything that made you think or go "hm".
I've also shared some of my recent reading to give folks an idea of what I've already read. Thanks and look forward to your recommendations!
| The Wendigo | Algernon Blackwood |
|---|---|
| Society Must Be Defended | Michel Foucault |
| The Willows | Algernon Blackwood |
| This Thing Between Us | Gus Moreno |
| Occultation and other stories | Laird Barron |
| Wounds | Nathan Ballingrund |
| The Road to Serfdom | F.A. Hayek |
| The Colour Out of Space | H.P. Lovecraft |
| The Science of Desire: Beauty, Masculinity, and Ideology on the Far Right | Catherine Tebaldi and Scott Burnett |
| Entrepreneurship and ideology: Accelerationism, degrowth, and the emerging political economy of venture creation | Dominic Chalmers, Felix Honecker, David Johnson, Gemma Milne |
| Policy initiatives for Artificial Intelligence-enabled government: An analysis of national strategies in Europe | Colin van Noordt, Rony Medaglia, Luca Tangi |
| Of tradwives and TradCaths: The anti-genderism register in global nationalist movements | Catherine Tebaldi and Dominika Baran |
| Technofuturist Registers for AI and the Future of Work | Alfonso Del Perico |
| How to Read: Foucault's Discipline and Punish | Anne Shwan and Stephen Shapiro |
| Discipline and Punish | Michel Foucault |
| The Strength of the Few | James Islington |
| Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning | Peter Beinart |
| The Will of the Many | James Islington |
| Politics as a Vocation | Max Weber |
| Bronze Age Mindset | Bronze Age Pervert |
| Harassment Architecture | Mike Ma |
| The Age of Surveillance Capitalism | Shoshana Zuboff |
| Lost in the Dark and Other Scary Stories | John Langan |
| Sunbirth | An Yu |
| Doppelgänger | Naomi Klein |
| The Troop | Nick Cutter |
| AI, Power and Our Future: the Coming Wave | Mustafa Suleyman |
| Atlas of AI | Kate Crawford |
| Empire of AI | Karen Hao |
| Remote Control | Nnedi Okorafor |
| Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans | Melanie Mitchell |
| The Dark Enlightenment | Nick Land |
| The Dangers of Smoking in Bed | Mariana Enriquez |
| Prophet Song | Paul Lynch |
| Convenience Store Woman | Sayaka Murata |
| Zero to One | Peter Thiel and Blake Masters |
| Careless People | Sarah Wynn-Williams |
| The Sovereign Individual | James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg |
| The Machiavellians: Defenders of Democracy | James Burnham |
| Superintellgience | Nick Bostrom |
| Jesus and John Wayne | Kristin Kobes du Mez |
| Offshore | Brooke Harrington |
| Children of Time | Adrian Tchaikovsky |
| Beyond Cop Cities | Joy James |
| This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends | Nicole Perlroth |
by EDANTEEE
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The Little Prince
By Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (translation by Jeff Mcneill). It’s a fiction, small and easy read and pretty much a childrens book. But I found it deeply emotional. Might be a different read.
The Interpretation of Dreams
By Sigmund Freud
You must have heard of it, read it too perhaps. But it is definitely interesting. And perhaps ever more relevant seeing how some of his ideas about the human mind relates to AI.
1984
By George Orwell
Classic fiction about control, totalitarianism and surveillance. Seems pretty relevant these days.
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco