Mathematician and data scientist Cathy O’Neil reveals, the mathematical models being used today are unregulated and uncontestable, even when they’re wrong.

In Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Umoja Noble challenges the idea that search engines like Google offer an equal playing field for all forms of ideas, identities, and activities.

Drawing on recently opened government files, personal interviews, and the archives of major British computer companies, Programmed Inequality takes aim at the fiction of technological meritocracy.

In Invisible Women, celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez unearths a dangerous pattern in data and its consequences on women's lives.

In Artificial Unintelligence, Meredith Broussard argues that our collective enthusiasm for applying computer technology to every aspect of life has resulted in a tremendous amount of poorly designed systems.

Design Justice goes beyond recent calls for design for good, user-centered design, and employment diversity in the technology and design professions; it connects design to larger struggles for collective liberation and ecological survival.

In Dark Matters Simone Browne locates the conditions of blackness as a key site through which surveillance is practiced, narrated, and resisted.

With Obfuscation, Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum mean to start a revolution. They are calling us not to the barricades but to our computers, offering us ways to fight today's pervasive digital surveillance.

When AI expert and investigative journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she thought they were the good guys. Hao presents the fullest picture of AI and its impact we’ve seen to date, alongside a trenchant analysis of where things are headed.

In this book, Amy Webb reveals the pervasive, invisible ways in which the foundations of AI -- the people working on the system, their motivations, the technology itself -- is broken.

Drawing on over a decade of research, award-winning scholar Kate Crawford reveals how AI is a technology of extraction: from the minerals drawn from the earth to the labor of low-wage information workers to the data from every action and expression.

When Silicon Valley says it is ‘‘moving fast and breaking things, “the world interprets the chaos as a necessary cost of innovation.
Gil Durán reveals something far more sinister: a decades-long campaign to replace elected governments with corporate rule.

Sarah Wynn-Williams tells the wrenching but fun story of Facebook, mapping its rise from stumbling encounters with juntas to Mark Zuckerberg’s reaction when he learned of Facebook’s role in Trump’s election.

In this riveting account, Kashmir Hill tracks the improbable rise of Clearview AI, helmed by Hoan Ton-That, an Australian computer engineer, and Richard Schwartz, a former Rudy Giuliani advisor, and its collection of billions of faces from the internet.

How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-feudalism tears apart the Silicon Valley consensus to reveal the new economic order, in which capital has abandoned production to focus on predation.

Drawing on vivid testimonies from rural migrant workers, student interns, managers and trade union staff, Dying for an iPhone is a devastating expose of two of the world's most powerful companies: Foxconn and Apple.

The Age of Extraction tells the story of an Internet that promised widespread wealth and democracy in the 1990s and 2000s, only to create new economic classes and aid the spread of autocracy instead.

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is a deeply original, exquisitely reasoned, and spell binding examination of our emerging information civilization and the life and death choices we face.

A smart, incisive look at the technologies sold as artificial intelligence, the drawbacks and pitfalls of technology sold under this banner and why it’s crucial to recognize the many ways in which AI hype covers for a small set of power-hungry actors at work and in the world.

In Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Umoja Noble challenges the idea that search engines like Google offer an equal playing field for all forms of ideas, identities, and activities.

Mathematician and data scientist Cathy O’Neil reveals that the mathematical models being used today are unregulated and uncontestable, even when they’re wrong.

In Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks systematically investigates impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America.

In The AI Con, Bender and Hanna offer a sharp, witty, and wide-ranging take-down of AI hype across its many forms. Bender and Hanna show you how to spot AI hype, how to deconstruct it, and how to expose the power grabs..

Shannon Vallor makes a wide-ranging, prophetic, and philosophical case for what AI could be: a way to reclaim our human potential for moral and intellectual growth rather than lose ourselves in mirrors of the past.

From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity.

Unmasking AI goes beyond the headlines about existential risks produced by Big Tech and shares the story of how Buolamwini uncovered what she calls “the coded gaze”—the evidence of encoded discrimination and exclusion in tech products.

In The Algorithm, Hilke Schellmann delivers a shocking and illuminating exposé on one of the most pressing civil rights issues of our time: how AI has quietly, and mostly out of sight, taken over the world of work.

Today, technology imperils millions of jobs, robots are crowding factory floors, and artificial intelligence will soon pervade every aspect of our economy.

How will this change the way we live? And what can we do about it?

The answers lie in Blood in the Machine.

Today, algorithms are everywhere, but digital monopolies push us towards the feudal logic of rent, dispossession, and personal domination. How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-feudalism reveals the new economic order, in which capital has abandoned production to focus on predation.

The Nerd Reich explains the origins, strategies, and ambitions of Silicon Valley’s war on democracy for the first time.

From San Francisco’s weaponized elections and secret billionaire projects to the White House, Durán exposes how the world’s richest men are building a new political order.

By analyzing book publishing, news, live music, music streaming, screenwriting, radio, Giblin and Doctorow show how powerful corporations build “anti-competitive flywheels” designed to lock in users and suppliers, make markets hostile to new entrants, force workers to accept unfairly low prices.

Despite efforts of mainstream commentators to convince us otherwise, many of us have begun to question why this system has produced such vast inequality and wanton disregard for its own destruction. This book offers answers to exactly these questions on their own terms.

Technofeudalism says Yanis Varoufakis, is the new power reshaping our lives and the world, and is the greatest threat to the liberal individual, to our efforts to avert climate catastrophe—and to democracy itself. It also lies behind the new geopolitical tensions, especially the New Cold War between the United States and China.

The Architecture of Modern Empire is a searing reckoning with the mechanics of power, in all its forms, and the role of imagination and creative expression in envisioning a radically different world. This newly reissued and expanded edition, featuring interviews from 2001 to 2022 with Roy.

In Gilded Rage, New York Times bestselling author Jacob Silverman takes us inside the surreal, high-stakes world of Silicon Valley. This is the story of the political awakening and radicalization of a cabal of tech billionaires and their descent into ideological extremism.

Brotopia reveals how Silicon Valley got so sexist despite its utopian ideals, why bro culture endures even as its companies claim the moral high ground, and how women are speaking out and fighting back. Emily Chang shows us how to fix Silicon Valley’s toxic culture--to bring down Brotopia, once and for all.

Our society is constantly made to serve the needs of two systems: technology and capitalism. In The Mechanic and the Luddite, Sadowski demystifies how the two systems of technology and capitalism work together and equips readers with practical tools to dismantle them and build a better world.

In this highly unauthorized account of the Big Five's origins, Rob Larson shreds every focus-grouped bromide about corporate benevolence he could get his hands on. His analysis will help readers crack the code of economic dynamics that allowed these companies to become near-monopolies very early on.

With the rise of neofeudalism, and as more and more workers are drawn into the service sector—from nurses to Uber and delivery drivers—Dean argues that we can see the emergence of a new vanguard, the class that can lead the struggle for liberation from oppression and exploitation: what she calls the servant vanguard.

In her gripping non-fiction book Empire of AI , award-winning journalist Karen Hao uses her intimate knowledge of and access to Sam Altman's OpenAI to provide an eye-opening account of the tech arms race in history that is reshaping the planet in real time.

Through Cyberfeminism looks at how technology may either support current power relations or provide disadvantaged people with a chance to question and disrupt them.

For centuries, societies have treated male domination as natural to the human species. How would our understanding of gender inequality look if we didn’t assume that men have always ruled over women?

In Programmed Inequality, Mar Hicks explores the story of labor feminization and gendered technocracy that undercut British efforts to computerize.

Feminism shouldn’t start—or stop—with seeing women represented at the top of society. It should start with the 99%.

A landmark collection spanning two centuries and four waves of feminist activism and writing, Burn It Down! is a testament to what is possible when women are driven to the edge.

Examining the home, the workplace, the public square, the doctor's office, and more, Criado Perez unearths a dangerous pattern in data and its consequences on women's lives.

Illustrating data feminism in action, D'Ignazio and Klein show how challenges to the male/female binary can help challenge other hierarchical (and empirically wrong) classification systems.

True story of black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations fueled America’s greatest achievements in space. A powerful history essential to our understanding of race, discrimination in America.

Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages to the witch-hunts and the rise of mechanical philosophy, Federici investigates the capitalist rationalization of social reproduction.

In Rest Is Resistance, Tricia Hersey, aka the Nap Bishop, casts an illuminating light on our troubled relationship with rest and how to imagine and dream our way to a future where rest is exalted. Our worth does not reside in how much we produce, especially not for a system that exploits and dehumanizes us.

Marsha, a legendary Black transgender activist, embodied both the beauty and the struggle of the early gay rights movement. Her work sparked the progress we see today, yet this is the first definitive record of her life. Marsha didn’t wait to be freed; she declared herself free and told the world to catch up.

Ruha Benjamin’s Imagination: A Manifesto is her proclamation that we have the power to use our imaginations to challenge systems of oppression and to create a world in which everyone can thrive. This book is for anyone who is ready to take to heart Toni Morrison's instruction: "Dream a little before you think."

Abolition. Feminism. Now. is a celebration of freedom work, a movement genealogy, a call to action, and challenge to those who think of abolition and feminism as separate political projects. This book features illustrations documenting work of grassroots organizers embodying abolitionist feminist practice.

Through candid interviews with Maya Angelou, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Margaret Walker, Sherley Anne Williams, and others, the book highlights practices and critical linkages between the work and lived experiences of Black women writers whose work laid the foundation for many who have come after.

Aja Monet is a surrealist blues poet, musician, and cultural worker whose poems sing to us of love, gender, justice, and spirituality. My Mother Is a Freedom Fighter is her ode to mothers, daughters, and sisters, the tiny gods fighting to change the world. Powerful, poetic meditations on motherhood, sisterhood, spirituality, solidarity.

Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon, and Black Skin, White Masks represents some of his most important work.

This book is the unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world.

In Dark Matters Simone Browne shows how contemporary surveillance technologies and practices are informed by the long history of racial formation and by the methods of policing black life under slavery, such as branding, runaway slave notices, and lantern laws.

Berdis Baldwin, Alberta King, and Louise Little were all forced to contend with the prejudices of Jim Crow as Black women. These three extraordinary women passed their knowledge to their children with the hope of helping them to survive in a society that would deny their humanity from the very beginning.

Practical AI Governance equips senior AI, technology, risk, and business leaders with a structured framework for embedding responsible AI oversight across complex organizations.

Sober yet optimistic, New Laws of Robotics offers an inspiring vision of technological progress, in which human capacities and expertise are the irreplaceable center of an inclusive economy.

Auditing AI is a first-of-its-kind exploration of why and how to audit artificial intelligence systems. It offers a simple roadmap for using AI audits to make product and policy changes that benefit companies and the public alike.

Responsible AI conceptually covers both how ethics can be used to identify risks and establish safeguards in the development of AI and how to use ethics-by-design methods to stimulate AI innovation.

Dr. Brandeis Hill Marshall delivers a call to action for rebel tech leaders, who acknowledge and are prepared to address the current limitations of software development.

Design Justice goes beyond recent calls for design for good, user-centered design, and employment diversity in the technology and design professions; it connects design to larger struggles for collective liberation and ecological survival.

Today, technology imperils millions of jobs, robots are crowding factory floors, and artificial intelligence will soon pervade every aspect of our economy. How will this change the way we live? And what can we do about it?

Redesigning AI asks what can be done to redirect AI for the good of everyone.
Leading off a forum, economist and best-selling author Daron Acemoglu argues that though the challenges are dire, the future is not inevitable.

The organizers, journalists, and scholars are charting a new path forward, employing creative tools to subvert the status quo, organize globally against high-tech border imperialism, and help us imagine a world without borders.

Imagination: A Manifesto is Ruha Benjamin’s proclamation that we have the power to use our imaginations to challenge systems of oppression and to create a world in which everyone can thrive.