December 6th 2024 new entries

• Amy Whitaker - The Rise of Hybrid Practice
• Aradna Krishna, Luca Cian, Ryan S.Elder - This Logo Moves Me
• Arthur Asa Berger - The Branded Self: On the Semiotics of Identity
• Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor - AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference
• Aymeric Mansoux, Brendan Howell, Dulsan Barok, Ville-Matias Heikkilä - Permacomputing Aesthetics: Potential and Limits of Constraints in Computational Art, Design and Culture
• Berhnard Kettemann - Semiotics of Advertising and the Discourse of Consumption
• Christine Rosen - The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World
• Constance Penley, Andrew Ross - Cyborgs at Large: Interview with Donna Haraway
• Deneen Wallace & Jesse W. Schwartz - Afrofuturism
• Eitan Wilf - Semiotic Dimensions of Creativity
• Elmira Murati - Language & Coding Creativity
• Frances C. Butler - Eating the Image: The Graphic Designer and the Starving Audience
• Hal Adams, Matija Franlin, Micah Carroll, Tan Zhi-Xuan - Beyond Preferences in AI Alignment
• Holger van der Boom & Susanne Dickel - Design as Semiotic Construction
• Jennifer Robertson - Technologies of Kokoro
• Kevin Driscoll - The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media
• Lisa Zambian & Stephanie Wilson - Design for an Unknown Future: Amplified Roles for Collaboration, New Design Knowledge, and Creativity
• NODE - Make It Yourself: 1000 Useful Things to Make
• Poster House - Designing Through The Wall: Cyan in the 1990s Exhibition Document
• Ravi Sundaram - Pirate Modernity: Delhi’s Media Urbanism
• Raymond Smullyan - To Mock A Mockingbird and Other Logic Puzzles
• Richard D. Zakia - Photography and Visual Perception
• Robert Gorwa - The Politics of Platform Regulation: How Governments Shape Online Content Moderation
• Ron Eglash - Hip Hop as Computational Neuroscience
• Roy R. Behrens - Art, Design, and Gestalt Theory
• Ryan Omizo - Stormwatch: Machine Learning Approaches to Understanding White Supremacy Online
• Sanford Kwinter & Bruce Mau - Design is Not For Us
• Silvio Lorusso: Design (Anti)Panism: An Incomplete Timeline
• Tim Schwartz - A Public Service: Whistleblowing, Disclosure and Anonymity
• Tiziana Terranova - Network Culture - Politics for the Information Age

June 2nd 2024 new entries

• Ashley Shew - Against Technoableism
• Alan Read, editor - The Fact of Blackness: Frantz Fanon and Visual Representation
• Alexander Bogdanov, translated by Taylor R. Genovese - Art and the Working Class via ISKRA
• Andrew Couldwell, Megan Fisher Couldwell - Laying The Foundations: A Book About Design Systems
• Casey Reas, Ben Fry - Processing: A Visual Handbook for Designers and Artists
• Cliff Kuang, Robert Fabricant - User Friendly
• Dipti Desai - Read My Lips: Talking with Gran Fury about artistic activism and pedagogy
• Donald Norman - Emotional Design
• Jack Lowery - It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic
• James Williams - Stand Out Of Our Light
• John Maeda - Design by Numbers
• John Maeda - The Laws of Simplicity
• John Ousterhout - A philosophy of software design
• Jon Yablonski - Laws of UX
• Jonathan Crary - 24/7 Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
• Kat Holmes, John Maeda - Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design
• Kate Crawford - Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
• Kevin D. Mitnick, Robert Vamosi - The Art of Invisibility
• Leah Buley - The User Experience Team of One
• Mark Coeckelbergh - AI Ethics
• Melanie Mitchell- Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
• Mike Monteiro - Ruined by Design
• Rhode Island School of Design - The Art of Critical Making
• Steve Portigal - Interviewing Users
• Tim Wu - The Curse of Bigness
• Tom Greever - Articulating Design Decisions
• Tung-Hu Hu - A Prehistory of the Cloud
• Tyson E. Lewis - Educational Potentialities via ISKRA
• Walter Benjamin - The Work of Art in The Age of Its Technological Reproducibility and other Writings on Media
• Yves Clifton - The Ecology of Attention

May Day 2024 new entries

• 7amleh - Guide to Digital Safety and Privacy at Protests (2021)
• Alan Read, editor - The Fact of Blackness: Frantz Fanon and Visual Representation
• Ayush Bhandari, Achuta Kadambi and Ramesh Raskar - Computational Imaging
• Cathy O’Neil - Weapons of math destruction
• Critical Art Ensemble - Electronic Civil Disobedience and Other Unpopular Ideas
• Dan McQuillan - We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it
• Dick Hebdige - Reggae, Rastas & Rudies: Style and the Subversion of Form
• Domingo Lovera-Parmo - Protesting without a face: Privacy in public demonstrations
• Eszter Hargittai and Christian Sandvig Digital Research Confidential The Secrets of Studying Behavior Online
• Finn Brunton, Helen Nissenbaum - Obfuscation: A User’s Guide to Privacy and Protest
• Georgina Voss - Systems Ultra
• Iffy Books guides on: Steganography, Software-Defined Radios, DIY Faraday Shields, pocket wi-fi portals, magic wormholes, and encrypted messaging from your phone without the internet
• Jessa Lingel - Digital Countercultures and the Struggle for Community
• Johan Söderberg and Maxigas - Resistance to the Current: The Dialectics of Hacking
• John Maeda - how to speak machine
• Joy Buolamwini - Unmasking AI
• Julien Mailland and Kevin Driscoll - Minitel: Welcome to the Internet
• Karl Kinsella - God’s Own Language
• Luca Follis and Adam Fish - Hacker States
• Luciana Parisi - Contagious Architecture: Computation, Aesthetics, and Space
• Mario Capo - Beyond Digital
• Mark Foster Gage, editor - Aesthetics Equals Politics
• Paul Virilio - Open Sky
• Privacy International - Free to Protest: The Protestor’s Guide to Police Surveillance and How to Avoid It
• Shoshana Zuboff - The age of Surveillance Capitalism
• Stuart Hall, editor - Modernity: An Introduction to Modern Society
• Virginia Eubanks - Automating inequality

April 2nd 2024 new entries

• Christian Boucharenc - Design for a Contemporary World
• Dave Payling - Electronic Visual Music: The Elements of Audiovisual Creativity
• Felice C. Frankel - The Visual Elements: Photography A Handbook for Communicating Science and Engineering
• Felice C. Frankel - Visual Strategies: A Practical guide to graphics for scientists & engineers
• Ida Engholm - Design for the New World
• Jay Johnston, Iain Gardner - Drawing Spirit
• John Heskett, Clive Dilnot, Suzan Boztepe - Design and the Creation of Value
• Joshua Reeves - Citiizen Spies
• Kathleen Fitzpatrick - Planned Obsolescence
• Kathy High, Sherry M. Hocking, Mona Jimenez - The Emergence of Video Processing Tools vol 1 and 2
• Kent McQuilkin - Cinema4D Apprentice
• Lillie Chouliaraki, Maria Georgia - The Digital Border
• Marshall McLuhan - The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man
• Matthew Thomas Payne - Playing War: Military Video Games after 9/11
• Mizuki Ito, Crystal Martin, Rachel C. Pfister Matthew H. Rafalow, Katie Salen, Amanda Wortman - Affinity Online: How Connection and Shared Interest Fuel Learning
• Owen E. Holloway - French Rococo Book Illustration
• Rafael Concepcion - Adobe Lightroom Classic Classroom in a Book
• Ramesh Srinivasan - Whose Global Village?
• S. Craig Watkins, et al - The Digital Edge: How Black and Latino Youth Navigate Digital Inequality
• Victor Margolin - Design Discourse
• Victor Margolin - The Politics of the Artificial: Essays on Design and Design Studies
• Victor Margolin, Richard Buchanan - Discovering Design: Explorations in Design Studies
• Victor Margolin, Richard Buchanan - The Idea of Design: A Design Issues Reader

February 29th 2024 new entries

• Aaron Swartz - The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz
• Brad Nunnally, David Farkas: UX Research: Practical Techniques for Designing Better Products
• Donald A Norman - Living With Complexity
• Eden Medina - Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile
• Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall - Decolonizing Design
• Gavin Mueller - Breaking Things at Work
• Jaap-Henk Hoepman - Privacy Is Hard and Seven Other Myths
• Jaime Levy - UX Strategy: How to Devise Innovative Digital Products that People Want
• James Bridle - New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
• Jason van Gumster - Blender for Dummies, 4th Edition
• Jeffrey Pomerantz - Metadata
• Jillian C. York - Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech under Surveillance Capitalism
• Joel Marsh - UX for Beginners: A Crash Course in 100 Short Lessons
• Joel Marsh - UX for Business
• Karin Wagner - From ASCII Art to Comic Sans: Typography And Popular Culture in the Digital Age
• Legacy Russell - Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto
• Lizzie O’Shea - Future Histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine and the Paris Commune Teach Us about Digital Technology
• Mads Nygaard Folkmann - The Aesthetics of Imagination in Design
• Marcos Keller - UX Basics For Beginners 2023: The Complete Guide To UX
• Matthew Fuller, Eyal Weizman - Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth
• Nvoid Art-Tech Limited - Introduction to TouchDesigner
• Patrick Lechner - Multimedia Programming Using Max/MSP and TouchDesigner
• Peter Lunenfeld - The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading
• Peter Snowdon - The People Are Not an Image: Vernacular Video After the Arab Spring
• Phil Jones - Work Without The Worker: Labor in the Age of Platform Capitalism
• Richard Birkett - Donald Rodney: Autoicon
• Steven J. Gortler - Foundations of 3D Computer Graphics
• Steven Skaggs - FireSigns: A Semiotic Theory for Graphic Design
• Teresa Moses, Omari Souza - An Anthology of Blackness
• Tom Green, Joseph Labreque - A Guide to UX Design and Development

January 30th 2023 new entries

• Anthony Loewenstein - The Palestine Laboratory
• Ars Electronica - The Practice of Art and AI
• Benjamín Labatut - When We Cease to Understand The World
• Business of Fashion - “How Fashion Schools Are Tackling AI’s Blind Spots”
• Chris Meigh-Andrews - A History of Video Art
• Chris Roberts - The Editor’s Guide to DaVinci Resolve 18
• Cory Doctorow - The Internet Con
• David Marchese, The New York Times - “Your Data Is Diminishing Your Freedom”
• Domenico Quaranta - In Your Computer
• E-flux - Supercommunity
• Ed Finn - What Algorithms Want
• Eric Dimbach - Researching the Employer for Organizing & Bargaining Campaigns
• François Fortier - Virtuality check
• Frieze Art - “Can Machine Creativity Truly Exist?”
• Hal Foster - The Anti-Aesthetic
• Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Adam Michaels - The Electric Information Age Book
• Kodwo Eshun - More Brilliant than The Sun
• Lisa Fridsma, Brie Gyncild - Adobe After Effects Classroom in a Book 2024
• Lizzie O’Shea - Future Histories
• Loes Bogers, Letizia Chiappini - (Un)learning Technology Reader
• Matteo Pasquinelli - The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence
• Nicolas Maigret, Maria Rozkowska - The Pirate Book
• Peter Krapp - Noise Channels
• Rosa Menkman - Glitch Studies Manifesto
• Sheri Byrne-Haber - Giving A Damn About Accessibility
• Stafford Beer - Designing Freedom
• Vilém Flusser - Fingers
• Whit Pow - A Trans Historiography of Glitches and Errors
• Yasha Levine - Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet

October 13th 2023 new entries

• Amba Kak & Sarah Myers West - AI Now 2023 Landscape: Confronting Tech Power
• Center for Constitutional Rights - If An Agent Knocks
• Chaka, Halcyon Mag, Gum Studio, Thought Hazard - Shadow Libraries Guidev
• David Beech - Art and Postcapitalism: Aesthetic Labour, Automation, and Value Production
• Digital Defense Fund - Protest Safety Tips to Guard Against Surveillance (2020)
• Domenico Quaranta - In Your Computer
• Eddie Opara & John Cantwell - Color Works: Best Practices for Graphic Designers
• Electronic Frontier Foundation - Digital Security Tips for Protestors (2016)
• Ethan Marcotte - You Deserve A Tech Union
• From Beirut With Love - From Beirut To Minneapolis: A protest guide in solidarity (2020)
• Gregory Sholette - Dark Matter: Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture
• Jennifer Chan - From Browser to Gallery (and Back): The Commodification of Net Art 1990-2011
• Jon Duckett - HTML & CSS: Design & Build Websites
• Kandrea Wade, Jed R. Brubaker, Casey Fiesler - Protest Privacy Recommendations: An Analysis of Digital Surveillance Circumvention Advice During Black Lives Matter Protests (2022)
• Marshall McLuhan - Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
• Martin R. Albrecht et al, Usenix Security Conference - Collective Information Security in Large-Scale Urban Protests: the Case of Hong Kong (2021)
• Martin Schwedener - The Photographic Universe: Vilém Flusser’s Theories of Photography, Media, and Digital Culture
• Matt Pearson: Generative Art: A Practical Guide Using Processing
• National Council of Educational Research and Training - Towards A New Age of Graphic Design
• Neil Leonard & Gavin Ambrose - Design Research: Investigation for successful creative solutions
• Rana Foroohar, Financial Times - Workers could be the ones to regulate AI
• Rebecca Strauss & Nils B. Weidmann - Protest and Digital adaptation
• Ruben Pater - Caps Lock
• Shumon Basar - The Extreme Self
• Studio BentStuff, Famitsu - Final Fantasy VII: The Complete Dismantled True Story Artbook
• Surveillance Technology Oversight Project - Protest Surveillance and Safety
• Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing - Art Post-internet: INFORMATION / DATA
• Various Artists - Capcom Design Works Artbook
• Various Authors, edited by e-flux journal: The Internet Does Not Exist
• Various Authors, edited by Heather Urbanski - Writing and the Digital Generation: Essays on New Media Rhetoric
• Yuk Hui - On the Existence of Digital Objects

April 17th 2023 new entries:

• Kōbō Abe - Instructions for Making a Box
• Emily Guez - How To Do Things With Things
• Audre Lorde - The Master’s Tools…
• Kató Lomb - Polyglot
• A Handbook for Artists Working In Community
• Building Consentful Tech Handbook
• "Generative Language Models and Automated Influence Operations: Emerging Threats and Potential Mitigations" (from January 2023, researchers from OpenAI, Georgetown University’s CSET, Stanford University’s Internet Observatory)
• From Xenakis’ UPIC to Graphic Notation Today
• The Interventionists Users’ Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life
• Alt Text As Poetry Workbook
• Designing With Smell textbook (really!)
• Everything Is Sculpture
• Woven and Interlocking Book Structures
• Making Books
• Getting Started With Processing
• Making Time for Creativity
• Some Tips on Drawing Type from A to Z
• AMARU - Chaos + Culture + Community
• Anthony Wilden - System and Structure
• Hiroki Azuma - Otaku: Japan’s Database Animals
• Ruha Benjamin - Captivating Technology
• Jay David Bolter, Richard Grusin - Remediation: Understanding New Media
• Fred Fonseca - Data Objects for Knowing
• Marisa Elena Duarte - Network Sovereignty: Building The Internet Across Indian Country
• Geert Lovink - Extinction Internet: Our Inconvenient Truth Moment
• Vilém Flusser - The Shape of Things: A Philosophy of Design (and excerpted, Why do Typewriters go ‘Click’?)
• Kaitlyn Tremblay - Collaborative Worldbuilding For Video-games
• Lev Manovich - Database as Symbolic Form
• Mike Healy - Marx and Digital Machines
• Dean Spade - Mutual Aid
• Paul Roquet - Ambient Media: Japanese Atmospheres of Self
• Paulo Freire - Pedagogy of the Oppressed
• Jonathan Sterne and Tara Rodgers - The Poetics of Signal Processing
• Austin Kleon - Steal Like An Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
• Edward Shanken - Systems
• Juliane Rebentisch - Aesthetics of Installation Art
• Kenya Hará - Designing Design
• Aimi Hamraie - Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability
• Tiqqun - The Cybernetic Hypothesis
• Ursula Franklin - The Real World of Technology
• Christian Leborg - Visual Grammar
• Charles Harrison - Essays on Art and Language
• Kath Weston - Animate Planet
• Krzysztof Wodiczko - Crticial Vehicles
• Jaron Lanier - You Are Not A Gadget
• Bojana Kunst - Artist At Work: Proximity of Art and Capitalism
• Gabrielle Jennings - The Moving Image in Contemporary Art
• Trend reports for 2023/24 from: Adobe, Google, VaynerMedia, Coefficient Capital, Trendhunder, FashionSnoops.com
• Full run of Extropy - The Journal of Transhumanist Thought (17 issues, 1988-1997)
• Full run of Hack This Zine (13 issues, 2004-2011)
• Incomplete (issues 5 and 6) run of Reality Hackers (proto-Mondo 2000, 1988-1989)
• Excerpt from Heavy Metal (issue #5 1985), interview with William Gibson
• Plutonics - A Journal of Non-Standard Theory, Vol 15/March 2022
• Window Research Laboratory - Synthesized Identity Model

September 12th 2022 new entries:

• Joe Karaganis - Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education (2018)
• Glyphs 3 Handbook - October 2021
• Susan Weinschenk, Ph.D. - 100 Things Every Designer Needs To Know About People (2011)
• The Archive For Research in Archetypal Symbolism - A Journey Through Symbols
• Eileen MacAvery Kane - Ethics: A Graphic Designer’s Field Guide (2010)
• Max Bill -Function and Gestalt (1958)
• Boris Groys - The Obligation to Self-Design (e-flux Journal, 2008)
• Jacob Johanssen -Psychoanalysis and Digital Culture (2019)
• Rosa Menkman - The Glitch Moment(um) (2011)
• Mirko Schäfer, Karin van Es - The Datafied Society (2016)
• N. Katherine Hayles - My Mother Was A Computer (2005)
• Sadie Plant - Zeroes + Ones (1997)
• Precarious Workers Brigade - Training for Exploitation? Politicising Employability & Reclaiming Education

April 25th 2022 new entries:


• Brie Gyncild, Lisa Fridsma - Adobe After Effects Classroom in a Book
• Joy Lisi Rankin - A People’s History of Computing In The United States
• Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry (CMU) - Art && Code: Homemade
• Alison Adam - Artificial Knowing: Gender and the Thinking Machine
• Charlton McIlwain - Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter
• Etienne Wenger - Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity
• Computers and Automation ’67: Computer Art Contest, August 1967
• Cybernetics, a New Science (New York Times 1948 column)
• Erik Davis - Techgnosis: Magic, Memory, And The Angels of Information
• Evolution of IBM Computers booklet
• Laura Poitras - Astro Noise: A Survival Guide For Living Under Total Surveillance
• Lauren Cornell, Ed Halter - Mass Effect: Art and The Internet In The Twenty-First Century
• MSX Software Catalogue 1991 (JP)
• Our Data Bodies - Digital Defense Playbook: Community Power Tools for Reclaiming Data
• Devin Halladay - Public Domain: Design in the 21st Century
• Warren Sack - The Software Arts
• An Introduction to The Community Memory Project
• Stewart Brand - Whole Earth Software Catalog
• Your Computer Magazine, Nov 1981
• Michael Green - Zen & The Art of the Macintosh
• Radical Software, issues: Vol 1 #3 & #5, Vol 2 #1, #4 & #5
• Processed World, issues: 1, 3, 7, 8, 23, 24, 25, 28
• Computer Magazine issues from 1986 to 1992



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