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