This Machine Kills 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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podcast on tech and political economy /// agitprop against innovation and capital /// hosted by @jathansadowski and @bigblackjacobin, produced by @braunestahl
The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America
David A. BanksThis Machine Kills🚨249/250. We Built This City on Authenticity (ft. David A. Banks)🚨 @DA_Banks joins us for a supersized chat about his new book, The City Authentic, about the dynamics of cultural capital and attention economy that now drive the urban growth machine. https://t.co/reQXFicLCt
Hardcover, 2023
$95.00Member price:$95.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
Malcolm HarrisThis Machine Kills🚨236. Butterflies on History’s Collage (ft. Malcolm Harris)🚨 @BigMeanInternet joins us to discuss his magisterial book on the hellmouth in Northern California. We dig into some of the lesser known people and products at the center of Palo Alto: https://t.co/Z7r6io9Mx0
Hardcover, 2023
$36.00Member price:$18.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back
Cory DoctorowThis Machine Kills🚨194 – Cultural Capture by Chokepoint Capitalism (ft. Rebecca Giblin, Cory Doctorow)🚨 @doctorow and @rgibli join us to discuss their new book about how creative labor markets are tightly squeezed on all sides by massive monopolies / monopsonies. https://t.co/rhu8etZ2xH
Hardcover, 2022
$26.95Member price:$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Red Team Blues: A Martin Hench Novel
Cory DoctorowThis Machine Kills🚨257. Red Team Blues (ft. Cory Doctorow)🚨 Returning champion, @doctorow, comes back to discuss his excellent new novel – Red Team Blues – and chat about fiction (science), finance (crypto), forensics (accounting), and much more. https://t.co/UgKwsuR3zh
Hardcover, 2023
$27.99Member price:$13.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Resisting AI: An Anti-Fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence
Dan McQuillanThis Machine Kills🚨186. Refusing the Everyday Fascism of Artificial Intelligence (ft. Dan McQuillan)🚨 @danmcquillan joins to discuss his new book, Resisting AI. We talk about how AI is a technology perfectly suited to fascist politics—and how it should be otherwise. https://t.co/Io5lJCBxv3
Paperback, 2022
$29.95Member price:$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation
Paris MarxThis Machine Kills🚨174. Pedal to the Metal (ft. Paris Marx)🚨 @parismarx has an excellent new book out from Verso— Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation — and they join us to discuss its historical, grounded, critical analysis. https://t.co/YNMt7PDtRC
Hardcover, 2022
$26.95Member price:$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Health Communism
Beatrice Adler-BoltonThis Machine Kills🚨201. We Are All Surplus (ft. Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Artie Vierkant)🚨 @realLandsEnd and @avierkant join us to discuss their fantastic new book HEALTH COMMUNISM. Under capitalism we are all human waste. The biofuel powering—and exploding—the system. https://t.co/TXcP66PceD
Hardcover, 2022
$24.95Member price:$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation
Nick SeaverThis Machine Kills🚨240. Anthropology of Algorithms, Ethnography of Engineers, Theory of Traps (ft. Nick Seaver)🚨 @npseaver joins us to discuss his new book, Computing Taste, based on deep ethnographic work on the creation of algorithmic (music) recommendation systems. https://t.co/ixEXB9nKBa
Hardcover, 2022
$99.00Member price:$99.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America
David A. BanksThis Machine Kills🚨249/250. We Built This City on Authenticity (ft. David A. Banks)🚨 @DA_Banks joins us for a supersized chat about his new book, The City Authentic, about the dynamics of cultural capital and attention economy that now drive the urban growth machine. https://t.co/reQXFicLCt
Paperback, 2023
$26.95Member price:$26.95 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets
Donald MacKenzieThis Machine Kills🚨Preview – 200. TMK BC4: An Engine, Not a Camera (Chapter 1)🚨 We kick off the new TMK Book Club on An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets. Starting with chapter 1, new episodes coming biweekly on Patreon: https://t.co/o8ox8XdRzF https://t.co/SRwkmZySFw
Paperback, 2008
$40.00Member price:$40.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)