Brian Merchant Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Brian Merchant is the Los Angeles Times’ technology columnist. Tech columnist, LA Times. Author, BLOOD IN THE MACHINE (September, 2023).
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
Brian MerchantBrian MerchantAs I'm finishing up the copyedits, I'm reminded that I haven't flogged this in a bit: BLOOD IN THE MACHINE is out in September, and up for preorder. It's about what happens when tech titans are given too much power, which seems relevant now: https://t.co/Mk95RMWB9v
Hardcover, 2023
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future
Ben TarnoffBrian Merchant@davekarpf @cwarzel i might recommend ben tarnoff's internet for the people, which addresses some of these concerns charlie raised up thread and hits on some of this. haven't finished it but am enjoying so far https://t.co/cL74TK7q2E
Hardcover, 2022
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism
Cory DoctorowBrian MerchantI almost forgot in the insanity that capped off 2020 that last year, I edited an entire *book*. Lucky for me, I got to work with one of the authors in the game I most admire, Cory @Doctorow. He'll be dropping by @ozm to discuss his epic 'How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism': https://t.co/j7Tnlk9ZpZ
Paperback, 2021
$12.99$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines
Joy BuolamwiniBrian MerchantBuolamwini’s book recounts her journey to become one of the nation’s preeminent scholars and critics of artificial intelligence — she recently advised President Biden before the release of his executive order on AI — and offers readers a compelling [and] digestible guide.
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Red Pill
Hari KunzruBrian Merchantcan't remember the last time the opening lines to a novel so efficiently and fully excavated a latent anxiety I had not yet identified lol (it's from Hari Kunzru's Red Pill, to those asking)
Paperback, 2021
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
American Estrangement: Stories
Saïd SayrafiezadehBrian MerchantI read American Estrangement over the weekend, cover to cover. Just unbelievably good, funny and gutting. Dystopias so subtle they are sometimes nearly indistinguishable from reality. I will be stumping for this book for the foreseeable future https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393541236
Paperback, 2023
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation
Paris MarxBrian MerchantA killer book! Crucial context and analysis for understanding Silicon Valley's favorite transportation futures—self-driving cars, rideshare apps, Very Big Tunnels—which, despite stalling out time and again, continue to attract mountains of capital Preorder this bad boy asaps
Hardcover, 2022
$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book