Technology Studies
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Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World
$16.95 Read moreRefusing the digital world of late capitalism
In this uncompromising essay, Jonathan Crary presents the obvious but unsayable reality: our “digital age” is synonymous with the disastrous terminal sta- Author: Crary, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1784784443
- Language: English
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Own This!: How Platform Cooperatives Help Workers Build a Democratic Internet
$26.95 Read moreWhat if taxi drivers in New York City or rickshaw operators in Bangalore could start a worker-owned and-operated alternative to Uber with stable hourly wages?
Winner of the First Prize in the Joyce Ro- Author: Scholz, R. Trebor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1839764554
- Language: English
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Technology’s Child: Digital Media’s Role in the Ages and Stages of Growing Up
$29.95 Read moreHow children engage with technology at each stage of development, from toddler to twentysomething, and how they can best be supported.
What happens to the little ones, the tweens, and the teenagers, w
- Author: Davis, Katie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0262046962
- Language: English
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The Web We Weave: Why We Must Reclaim the Internet from Moguls, Misanthropes, and Moral Panic
$29.00 Add to cartA bold defense of the internet, arguing attempts to fix and regulate it are often misguided —“essential reading for anyone who cares about the future of the internet” (Taylor Lorenz, author of Extrem… [more below]
- Author: Jarvis, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1541604121
- Language: English
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Log Off: Why Posting and Politics (Almost) Never Mix
$19.95 Read moreSocial media was supposed to pull us together for noble causes, but doomscrolling might not have been what most of us had in mind. Elon Musk might have ruined Twitter, but “he’s merely Twitter’s all-t
- Author: Cross, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1736716867
- Language: English
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Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias
$17.95 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2022 WRITERS’ TRUST BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICY
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 DONNER BOOK PRIZE
WINNER OF THE PATTIS FAMILY FOUNDATION GLOBAL CITIES BOOK AWARD
Is the ‘smart city’ the utop… [more below]
- Author: Lorinc, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1552454282
- Language: English
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Systems Ultra: Making Sense of Technology in a Complex World
$24.95 Read moreA TOOLBOX FOR COMPREHENDING — AND CHANGING — THE WORLD
Systems Ultra explores how we experience complex systems: the mesh of things, people, and ideas interacting to produce their own patterns and b- Author: Voss, Georgina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 30, 2024
- ISBN10: 1839760559
- Language: English
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Wasted Education: How We Fail Our Graduates in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math
$30.00 Read moreAn urgent reality check for America’s blinkered fixation on STEM education.
We live in an era of STEM obsession. Not only do tech companies dominate American enterprise and economic growth while compl
- Author: Skrentny, John D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 17 2023
- ISBN10: 226825795
- Language: English
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El Valor de la Atención: Por Qué Nos La Robaron Y Cómo Recuperarla
$24.95 Add to cartLa atención ha entrado en una profunda crisis. Cuáles son los motivos?, quién nos la está robando?, y, más importante aún, cómo podemos recuperar nuestra capacidad de concentración? Un demo
- Author: Hari, Johann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 6073900007
- Language: Spanish
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What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry Into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley
$18.00 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
In Daub’s hands the founding concepts of Silicon Valley don’t make money; they fall apart. —The New York Times Book Review
From FSGO x Logic: a Stanford pr- Series: Fsg Originals X Logic
- Author: Daub, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 13, 2020
- ISBN10: 0374538646
- Language: English
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Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation
$26.95 Read moreHow to build a transportation system to provide mobility for all
Road to Nowhere exposes the flaws in Silicon Valley’s vision of the future: ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft to take us anyw- Author: Marx, Paris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1839765887
- Language: English
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Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet
$18.00 Add to cartIn Subprime Attention Crisis, Tim Hwang investigates the way big tech financializes attention. In the process, he shows us how digital advertising-the beating heart of the internet-is at risk of colla
- Series: Fsg Originals X Logic
- Author: Hwang, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 0374538654
- Language: English
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Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China’s Countryside
$16.00 Add to cartIn Blockchain Chicken Farm, the technologist and writer Xiaowei Wang explores the political and social entanglements of technology in rural China. Their discoveries force them to challenge the standar
- Series: Fsg Originals X Logic
- Author: Wang, Xiaowei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 13, 2020
- ISBN10: 0374538662
- Language: English
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The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence
$24.95 Add to cartA social history of AI that finally reveals its roots in the spatial computation of industrial factories and the surveillance of collective behaviour.
What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the q- Author: Pasquinelli, Matteo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1788730062
- Language: English
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The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired and Why We Need to Fight Back Now
$30.00 Read moreAI is on the brink of dominating our lives, threating our privacy and human future–if we don’t take action now.
In The Algorithm, Emmy-award winning Wall Street Journal and Guardian contributor Hil- Author: Schellmann, Hilke
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 02, 2024
- ISBN10: 0306827344
- Language: English
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Techlash: Who Makes the Rules in the Digital Gilded Age?
$27.00 Read moreHailed by Publishers Weekly as “a potent primer on the need to rein in big tech” and Kirkus Reviews as “a rock-solid plan for controlling the tech giants,” readers will be energized by Tom Wheeler’s v
- Author: Wheeler, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 0815739931
- Language: English
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Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write
$22.00 Add to cartLiterary Theory for Robots reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence, taking readers on a spellbinding journey from medieval Arabic philosophy to visions of a universal language, past
- Series: A Norton Short
- Author: Tenen, Dennis Yi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 06, 2024
- ISBN10: 0393882187
- Language: English
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The Great Reset and the Struggle for Liberty: Unraveling the Global Agenda
$24.99 Add to cartThe Great Reset and the Struggle for Liberty: Unraveling the Global Agenda is the definitive treatment of the Great Reset. In a scholarly examination, Rectenwald treats the various components of the G
- Author: Rectenwald, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: January 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 1943003750
- Language: English
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System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot
$21.99 Add to cart“System Error is a triumph: an analysis of the critical challenges facing our digital society that is as accessible as it is sophisticated.” — Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO of New America
A forward-thinki
- Author: Reich, Rob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0063251310
- Language: English
