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đź“– Things I’ve read in 2026

(Building on 2024 and 2025‘s habit in the hope I continue to feel pressured by the Big Other to actually finish reading the books I start)

Books I’ve read in 2026:

  1. Nietzsche, by Stefan Zweig
  2. How To Read Like A Parasite: Why The Left Got High On Nietzsche, by Daniel Tutt
  3. The Naturals, by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
  4. The Four Quartets, by T.S. Eliot
  5. On Friendship, by Andrew O’Hagan
  6. Three Characters: Narcissist, Borderline, Manic Depressive, by Christopher Bollas
  7. Mayflies, by Andrew O’Hagan
  8. The Evocative Object World, by Christopher Bollas
  9. The Infinite Question, by Christopher Bollas
  10. Forces of Destiny: Psychoanalysis and Human Idiom, by Christopher Bollas.
  11. China on the Mind, by Christopher Bollas
  12. The Freudian Moment, by Christopher Bollas
  13. Love Machines: How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Our Relationships, by James Muldoon
  14. Minority Rule: Adventures in the Culture War, by Ash Sarkar
  15. The Night Manager, by John le Carré
  16. Attensity! A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement, by the Friends of Attention
  17. The Mystery of Things, by Christopher Bollas
  18. Get Rich or Lie Trying: Ambition and Deceit in the New Influencer Economy, by Symeon Brown

Papers I’ve read in 2025:

  1. Hayles, N. Katherine. 2025. “My First Book and Where It Led.” Media Theory 9 (2): 191–200.
  2. Aydin, Ciano, and Luca Possati. 2025. “Less and More than Data: A Lacanian Inquiry into Self-Formation in the Age of Data Mining.” AI & Society 40 (8): 6123–34.
  3. Blackwell, Dick. 2002. “Out of Their Class: Class, Colonization and Resistance in Analytic Psychotherapy and Group Analysis.” Group Analysis 35 (3): 367–80.
  4. Amoore, Louise, S. J. Bennett, Alexander Campolo, Benjamin Jacobsen, and Ludovico Rella. 2025. “Politics of the Prompt: Government in the Age of Generative AI.” Economy and Society 54 (3): 573–96.
  5. Muldoon, James, and Jul Jeonghyun Parke. 2025. “Cruel Companionship: How AI Companions Exploit Loneliness and Commodify Intimacy.” New Media & Society, no. 14614448251395192 (December). https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251395192.
  6. Poell, Thomas. 2025. “Three Challenges for Media and Communication Studies in the Age of AI.” Global Media and China 10 (4): 526–33.