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My 20 favourite books of 2024

I read more this year than I have in ages. Here are my top 20 👇 obviously many of these were published before 2024, I just read them this year:

  1. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s, by John Ganz
  2. Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment, by Charles Taylor
  3. Out of Time: The Pleasures and Perils of Ageing, by Lynne Segal
  4. When The Dust Settles: Searching for Hope After Disaster, by Lucy Easthope
  5. Deceitful Media: Artificial Intelligence and Social Life After the Turing Test, by Simone Natale
  6. Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization, by Richard Seymour
  7. Lacan, Discourse and Social Change: A Psychoanalytical Cultural Criticism, by Mark Bracher
  8. The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche’s Philosophy of the Two, by Alenka Zupančič
  9. AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference, by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor
  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. Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Technique: A Lacanian Approach for Practitioners, by Bruce Fink
  13. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family, by Jesselyn Cook
  14. Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America, by Abraham Josephine Riesman
  15. The Madness of Knowledge, by Steven Connor
  16. Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting, by Shannon Vallor
  17. Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers, by Cheryl Misak
  18. Writing with Pleasure, by Helen Sword
  19. What IS Sex?, by Alenka Zupančič
  20. All Fours, by Miranda July