📖 Books I’ve read in 2024

Restarting an old habit in the hope it will encourage me to read more and finish more of what I read. Fiction not now included, partly because I’m I’ve finished ingesting trashy Star Trek novels at an embarrassing rate and they’d swamp non-fiction through numbers alone:

1. Deceitful Media: Artificial Intelligence and Social Life After the Turing Test, by Simone Natale
2. Is AI Good for the Planet?, by Benedetta Brevini
3. Lacan, Discourse and Social Change: A Psychoanalytical Cultural Criticism, by Mark Bracher
4. AI: Its Nature and Future, by Margaret Boden
5. Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets, by Todd McGowan
6. The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia and Depression, by Darian Leader
7. Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique: A Lacanian Approach for Practitioners, by Bruce Fink
8. The Powerful and the Damned: Private Diaries in Turbulent Times, by Lionel Barber
9. Perfect: Feeling Judged on Social Media, by Rosalind Gill
10. New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI, by Frank Pasquale
11. A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theory and Technique, by Bruce Fink
12. The Voyeur’s Motel, by Gay Talese
13. Already Free: Buddhism Meets Psychotherapy on the Path of Liberation, by Bruce Tift
14. Attention Span: Finding Focus for a Fulfilling Life, by Gloria Mark
15. Trekonomics: The Economics of Star Trek, by Manu Saadia
16. Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting, by Shannon Vallor
17. The Trading Game: A confession, by Gary Stevenson
18. Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence, by Kate Crawford
19. Artifictional Intelligence: Against Humanity’s Surrender to Computers, by Harry Collins
20. When The Dust Settles: Searching for Hope After Disaster, by Lucy Easthope
21. The Secret Lecturer: What Really Goes On At University, by The Secret Lecturer
22. Who’s Afraid of Gender?, by Judith Butler
23. Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence and Power on the Internet, by Taylor Lorenz
24. Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, by adrienne maree brown
25. A Clinical Introduction to Freud: Techniques for Everyday Practice, by Bruce Fink
26. The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche’s Philosophy of the Two, by Alenka Zupančič
27. Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data, by Carissa Véliz
28. Let Them Rot: Antigone’s Parallax, by Alenka Zupančič
29. Against: What Does the White Evangelical Want?, by Tad DeLay
30. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI, by Ethan Mollick
31. The Searchers Five Rebels, Their Dream of a Different Britain, and Their Many Enemies, by Andy Beckett
32. Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers, by Cheryl Misak
33. Nietzsche in Turin: The End of the Future, by Lesley Chamberlain
34. What IS Sex?, by Alenka Zupančič
35. Lacan: In Spite of Everything, by Élisabeth Roudinesco
36. Life With Lacan, by Catherine Millot
37. Alan Clark: A Life in his Own Words: The Complete Diaries 1972 – 1999, by Alan Clark
38. Jouissance: Sexuality, Suffering and Satisfaction, by Darian Leader
39. Embracing Alienation: Why We Shouldn’t Try to Find Ourselves, by Todd McGowan
40. Didn’t You Use to Be Chris Mullin? Diaries 2010–2022, by Chris Mullin
41. Tory Nation: The Dark Legacy of the World’s Most Successful Political Party, by Samuel Earle
42. Miss-ing: Psychoanalysis 2.0, by Bruce Fink
43. Blown Away: Refinding Life After My Son’s Suicide, by Richard Boothby
44. A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy at Oxford 1900-60, by Nikhil Krishnan
45. The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking, by Shannon Vallor
46. Writing with Pleasure, by Helen Sword
47. Clinical Lacan, by Joel Dor
48. Resolution, by Irvine Welsh
49. Anxiety: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book X, by Jacques Lacan
50. Layer Cake, by J.J. Connolly
51. Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University, by Kathleen Fitzpatrick
52. For A New Critique of Political Economy, by Bernard Stiegler
53. Viva La Madness, by J.J. Connolly
54. Straight White Male, by John Niven
55. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family, by Jesselyn Cook
56. Kill Your Friends, by John Niven
57. Philosophising by Accident: Interviews with Élie During, by Bernard Stiegler and Benoît Dillet
58. Kill ’Em All, by John Niven
59. Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy, by Lynne Segal
60. No Good Deed, by John Niven
61. Out of Time: The Pleasures and Perils of Ageing, by Lynne Segal
62. Love’s Work, by Gillian Rose
63. The Madness of Knowledge, by Steven Connor
64. The Fuck-it List, by John Niven
65. Staring at the Sun, by Irvin D. Yalom
66. Who Wrote This? How AI and the Lure of Efficiency Threaten Human Writing, by Naomi Baron
67. The City of Today is a Dying Thing: In Search of the Cities of Tomorrow, by Des Fitzgerald
68. The Amateurs, by John Niven
69. Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind, by Mike Jay
70. Acting Out, by Bernard Stiegler
71. Love’s Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy, by Irvin D. Yalom
72. The Collected Schizophrenias, by Esmé Weijun Wang
73. Talking to Brick Walls, by Jacques Lacan
74. From Pessimism to Promise: Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech, by Payal Arora
75. The Sunshine Cruise Company, by John Niven
76. Creatures of a Day And Other Tales of Psychotherapy, by Irvin Yalom
77. Generative AI and Education: Digital Pedagogies, Teaching Innovation and Learning Design, by Mairéad Pratschke
78. Cold Hands, by John Niven
79. Four Quartets – T S Eliot and Spirituality, by Richard Brock
80. Billionaire, Nerd, Saviour, King: The Hidden Truth About Bill Gates and His Power to Shape Our World, by Anupreeta Das
81. The Hunting Party, by Lucy Foley
82. The Midnight Feast, by Lucy Foley
83. Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment, by Charles Taylor
84. The Guest List, by Lucy Foley
85. The Paris Apartment, by Lucy Foley
86. AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference, by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor
87. All Fours, by Miranda July
88. “Whatever it is , I’m against it”: Resistance to Change in Higher Education, by Brian Rosenberg
89. Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World, by Parmy Olson
90. Wellness, by Nathan Hill
91. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon, by Michael Lewis
92. Arrangements in Blue, by Amy Kay
93. Clown World: Four Years Inside Andrew Tate’s Manosphere, by Jamie Tahsin and Matt Shea
94. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s, by John Ganz
95. Exploratory Writing: Everyday magic for life and work, by Alison Jones
96. Professors as Writers: A Self-Help Guide for Productive writing, by Robert Boice
97. Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization, by Richard Seymour
98. Bird by Bird: Instructions on Writing and Life, by Anne Lamott
99. The Nix, by Nathan Hill
100. On Anxiety, by Renata Salecl
101. Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America, by Abraham Josephine Riesman
102. Why do women write more letters than they post?, by Darian Leader
103. Writing With Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process, by Peter Elbow
104. What Do Men Want? Masculinity and Its Discontents, by Nina Power
105. Radical Intimacy, by Sophie K Rosa
106. Is It Ever Just Sex?, by Darian Leader