My favorite books

A growing list of books that I read and recommend.

Critiques of AI and Technology

• Data Feminism. Catherine D’Ignazio, Lauren F. Klein
• Feminist AI: Critical Perspectives on Algorithms, Data, and Intelligent Machines
• The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want. Emily Bender
• Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labor Powering AI.
• Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity. Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson
• How Data Happened: a History From the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms. Chris Wiggins, Matthew L. Jones
• Artificial Whiteness: Politics and Ideology in Artificial Intelligence. Yarden Katz

Science, Technology, and Society (STS); Philosophy of Science and Technology

• Why Trust Science. Naomi Oreskes
• The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience. Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, Evan Thompson
• Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science. Sharon Crasnow
• Bitch: On the Female of the Species. Lucy Cooke
• Technology and Social Theory. Steve Matthewman
• Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious. Katherine Hayles

Medical anthropology and sociology

• Ghost-Managed Medicine: Big Pharma’s Invisible Hands. Sergio Sismondo
• Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola. Susan Greenhalgh
• Strangers at the Bedside: A History of How Law and Bioethics Transformed Medical Decision Making. David Rothman
• The Logic of Care: Health and the Problem of Patient Choice. Annemarie Mol

A different perspective of rationality based on social/relational cognition

• The Enigma of Reason. Hugo Mercier, Dan Sperber
• Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who We Trust and What We Believe. Hugo Mercier
• Bad Beliefs: Why They Happen to Good People

Social Justice, Sociology

• Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet – and What We Can Do About It. Nancy Fraser
• Design Justice. Sasha Costanza-Chock
• Feminism for the 99 Percent: A Manifesto. Nancy Fraser
• Think Like a Feminist: The Philosophy Behind the Revolution. Carol Hay
• The Tyranny of Merit. Michael J. Sandel
• The Forest and the Trees. Allan G. Johnson
• The Gender Knot: Unraveling our Patriarchal Legacy. Allan G. Johnson
• The Utopia of Rules. David Graeber
• The Second Shift. Arlie Russell Hochschild

Miscellaneous

• Invitation to Existential Psychology: A Psychology for the Unique Human Being and Its Applications in Therapy. Bo Jacobsen
• Manufacturing Happy Citizens: How the Science and Industry of Happiness Control Our Lives
• The slow professor: challenging the culture of speed in the academy
• The Art of Logic in an Illogical World. Eugenia Cheng
• Braiding Sweetgrass. Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Doughnut Economics. Kate Raworth
• The Mushroom at the End of the World. Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
• Night Vision: Seeing Ourselves Through Dark Moods. Mariana Alessandri