Student Recommendations

Books

• Algorithms of Oppression by Safiya Umoja Noble

• Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neil

• What We Know: Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany by Eric A. Johnson and Karl-Heinz Reuband

• Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News by Alec Karakatsanis

• Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labor Powering AI by Callum Cant, James Muldoon, and Mark Graham

• Sarah Kendzior books (i.e. They Knew: How Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent; Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America)

• Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America by Michael Harriot

Articles

• The “Debate Me Bro” Grift: How Trolls Weaponized The Marketplace of Ideas by Mike Masnick

Other Media Platforms

• Substack - Sarah Kendzior

• Podcast - The American Vandal Podcast - season on technofeudalism)

• Substack - The American Vandal - Against Technofeudal Education

10/8/2025 Class Zoom Chat