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Books:
- We Are Not Machines: The Fight for the Future of Work (2026) by Sarah O’Connor
- Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence (2022) by Kate Crawford
- Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse (2025) by Luke Kemp
- Ways of Being (2022) by James Bridle
- Automation and the Future of Work (2020) by Aaron Benanav
Upcoming books that may be of interest:
- The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life after AI (just released; 2026) by Cory Doctorow
- The Rulers: Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud (Aug 2026) by Cecilia Rikap
- Algorithmic Capital: Resistance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Oct 2026) by Jonathan Martineau and Jonathan Durand Folco
Online articles or publications:
- The Intelligence Curse
- UNU-INWEH 2026 Report: Environmental Cost of Artificial Intellgience: Carbon, Water and Land Footprints
- AI is a Product of Humanity. Humanity Should Own AI by Cecilia Rikep for the Jacobin
- Sovereignty for Sale by Evgeny Morozov for Le Monde diplomatique
- The AI We Deserve by Evgeny Morozov for Boston Review
- The Apocalyptic Delusions of the Silicon Valley Elite - an interview with Douglas Rushkoff in the Current Affairs
- Thirsty, Tired, Wired by Nicole Lim for the Kontinentalist
- Origin Stories: Plantations, Computers, and Industrial Control by Meredith Whittaker for Logic
- The fight against AI datacenters is important – but it’s just a starting point by Bruce Schneier and Nathan E Sanders for the Guardian
- Toward AI realism by Holly Lewis for the Spectre
- A (short) critical history of artificial intelligence from a computational fallacy to tech fascism by Angelo Arnis for Our Collective Futures
- Understanding a New Age of Algorithmic Capital by Jonathan Martineau and Jonathan Durand Folco for the Marxist Sociology Blog
- The Economics of Data Centres Creating Jobs are So Bad that They Sound Like a Joke by Joe Wilkins for Futurism
Papers
- Bélisle-Pipon, J.-C. (2025). AI, universal basic income, and power: Symbolic violence in the Tech Elite’s narrative. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/frai.2025.1488457
- Coeckelbergh, M. (2026). Technofascism: AI, big tech, and the new authoritarianism. AI & SOCIETY, 41(5), 5163–5176. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-026-02862-9
- de Vries-Gao, A. (2026). Recalibrating global artificial intelligence E-waste estimates. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 229, 108872. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2026.108872
- Rikap, C. (2023). Intellectual monopolies as a new pattern of innovation and technological regime. Industrial and Corporate Change, 33(5), 1037–1062. https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtad077
- Widder, D. G., Whittaker, M., & West, S. M. (2024). Why ‘open’ ai systems are actually closed, and why this matters. Nature, 635(8040), 827–833. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08141-1