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.

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.

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.

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.

Dr. Gebru has seen up close how the destructive ideologies and outsized egos of the tech world wreak havoc on our environment, our economies, and the lives of billions of people. Part memoir, part manifesto, Deep Unlearning is as much about ideology as it is about technology, and how to privilege justice in both.

Tech executives embraced Trumpism, fired organizers, and began lashing out against the "woke" ideology they blamed for turning their once loyal employees against them. Against Tech Oligarchy provides a gripping account of this inspiring workers' movement and the rise of hostile labor politics that define Silicon Valley today.

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.

Dan McQuillan calls for us to resist AI as we know it and restructure it by prioritising the common good over algorithmic optimisation. He sets out an anti-fascist approach to AI that replaces exclusions with caring, proposes people's councils as a way to restructure AI through mutual aid.

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.

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.

As Rachel Adams shows in this hard-hitting book, growing inequality is the single biggest threat to the transformative potential of AI. Not only is AI built on an unequal global system of power, it stands poised to entrench existing inequities, further consolidating a new age of empire.

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and archival research in Romania and the United States, Erin McElroy exposes the mechanisms through which the appeal of Silicon Valley technocapitalism devours space and societies, displaces residents, and generates extreme income inequality in order to expand its reach.

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.

In this incisive, witty, and bracingly original book, Carissa Véliz contends that the main promise of prediction is not knowledge of the future but domination over others. Powerful people use predictions to determine our future. Prophecy is an invitation to defy those orders and live life on our own terms.

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.

Annie McClanahan shows how work done "beneath the wage" depends on racialized and gendered forms of economic domination, is often excluded from labor organizing and regulation, and yet has begun to generate a new politics of social reproduction and solidarity.

Anthropologist Mary L. Gray and computer scientist Siddharth Suri team up to unveil how services delivered by companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Uber can only function smoothly thanks to the judgment and experience of a vast, invisible human labor force.