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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
  19. The Sex Lives of Siamese Twins, by Irvine Welsh
  20. Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today, by Naomi Alderman
  21. Emotional Technologies: How Techno-Capitalism Exploits Our Subjectivity, by Eva Illouz and Jonas Ferdinand
  22. Universality, by Natasha Brown
  23. The Myth of Psychotherapy, by Thomas Szasz
  24. The World Within: Why writers, artists and thinkers retreat, by Guy Stagg
  25. The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity, by Tim Wu
  26. Blank Canvas, by Grace Murray
  27. Half His Age, by Jennette McCurdy
  28. The Real Thing: Reflections on a Literary Form, by Terry Eagleton
  29. Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, by Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff
  30. Look What You Made Me Do, by John Lanchester
  31. Audition, by Katie Kitamura
  32. Being a Character Psychoanalysis and Self Experience, by Christopher Bollas
  33. The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind and the Quest for Superintelligence, by Sebastian Mallaby
  34. I’ve Been Thinking, by Daniel Dennett
  35. Modernism: A Literature in Crisis, by Terry Eagleton
  36. Moderation, by Elaine Castillo
  37. Prompt Thinking, by Jianwei Xun
  38. The Metapsychology of Christopher Bollas: An Introduction, by Sarah Nettleton
  39. Wild Animal, by Joel Dicker
  40. Blackshirts & Reds: Rational Fascism & the Overthrow of Communism, by Michael Parenti
  41. Meaning and Melancholia: Life in the Age of Bewilderment, by Christopher Bollas
  42. Free Association, by Christopher Bollas
  43. The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan, by Todd McGowan
  44. The Enigma of Room 622, by Joel Dicker
  45. The Call of Character: Living a Life Worth Living, by Mari Ruti
  46. The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want, by Emily Bender and Alex Hanna
  47. Analysed by Lacan: A Personal Account, by Betty Milan
  48. Reinventing the Soul: Posthumanist Theory and Psychic Life, by Mari Ruti
  49. The Life You Want, by Adam Phillips
  50. On Giving Up, by Adam Phillips
  51. Yesteryear, by Caro Claire Burke

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.
  7. Amodei, D. (2024, October). Machines of loving grace: How AI could transform the world for the better. darioamodei.com.
  8. Amodei, D. (2026, January). The adolescence of technology: Confronting and overcoming the risks of powerful AI. darioamodei.com
  9. Lamchek, Jayson, and Van-Hau Trieu. 2026. “Risk Regulation of Generative Artificial Intelligence in the Australian Government: The Case of Microsoft Copilot.” Technology and Regulation 2026 (January): 18–37.
  10. Knowles, Alan M. 2024. “Machine-in-the-Loop Writing: Optimizing the Rhetorical Load.” Computers and Composition 71 (102826): 102826.
  11. Jackson, Jonathan. 2025. “Higher Order Prompting: Applying Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy to the Use of Large Language Models in Higher Education.” Studies in Technology Enhanced Learning 4 (1). https://doi.org/10.21428/8c225f6e.0915c17e.
  12. Law, Siew Fang, and Ai Tam Le. 2023. “A Systematic Review of Empirical Studies on Trust between Universities and Society.” Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management 45 (4): 393–408.
  13. Holzer, Andreas, and Martin Daumiller. 2025. “Building Trust in the Classroom: Perspectives from Students and Teachers.” European Journal of Psychology of Education 40 (2): 62.
  14. Noroozi, Omid, Saba Soleimani, Mohammadreza Farrokhnia, and Seyyed Kazem Banihashem. 2024. “Generative AI in Education: Pedagogical, Theoretical, and Methodological Perspectives.” International Journal of Technology in Education 7 (3): 373–85.
  15. Bano, Muneera, Didar Zowghi, Jon Whittle, Liming Zhu, Andrew Reeson, Rob Martin, and Jen Parsons. 2025. “A Qualitative Study of User Perception of M365 AI Copilot.” arXiv [Cs.CY]. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2503.17661.
  16. Cabrera, Daniel H. 2009. “The Soul of the Golem.” Empedocles European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication 1 (1): 107–21.
  17. Pritchard, D. 2014. “Virtue Epistemology, Extended Cognition, and the Epistemology of Education.” Universitas-Monthly Review of Philosophy and Culture 41 (3): 47–66.
  18. Naeem, Hadeel. 2026. “Teaching Skills and Intellectual Virtues with Generative AI.” Episteme (Edinburgh) 23 (1): 269–86.
  19. Chase, Anne-Marie, and Kelly Galvin. 2026. “Thinking to Learn: Managing the Risks of Outsourcing to GenAI.” Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, January, 1–20.
  20. Zhou, Xue, and Lilian Schofield. 2024. “Using Social Learning Theories to Explore the Role of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Collaborative Learning.” Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, no. 30 (March). https://doi.org/10.47408/jldhe.vi30.1031.
  21. Zhou, Xue, Lei Fang, and Lilian Schofield. 2025. “Assessing AI Literacy among Academic Staff: Insights from a Higher Education Survey.” Compass Journal of Learning and Teaching 18 (1). https://doi.org/10.21100/compass.v18i1.1610.
  22. Schofield, L., & Zhou, X. (2025). Rethinking the Integration of AI in Higher Education Teaching and Learning. Intelligent Technologies in Education, Advanced Online Publication
  23. Zhou, Xue, and Lilian Schofield. 2024. “Developing a Conceptual Framework for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Literacy in Higher Education.” Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, no. 31 (September). https://doi.org/10.47408/jldhe.vi31.1354.
  24. Treacher, Amal. 2005. “On Postcolonial Subjectivity.” Group Analysis 38 (1): 43–57.
  25. Nayak, Suryia. 2021. “Black Feminist Intersectionality Is Vital to Group Analysis: Can Group Analysis Allow Outsider Ideas In?” Group Analysis 54 (3): 337–53.
  26. Nieminen, Juuso Henrik, and Laura Ketonen. 2024. “Epistemic Agency: A Link between Assessment, Knowledge and Society.” Higher Education 88 (2): 777–94.
  27. Bearman, Margaret, Joanna Tai, Phillip Dawson, David Boud, and Rola Ajjawi. 2024. “Developing Evaluative Judgement for a Time of Generative Artificial Intelligence.” Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education 49 (6): 893–905.
  28. Nieminen, Juuso Henrik, Eeva Haataja, and Peter J. Cobb. 2025. “From Active Learners to Knowledge Contributors: Authentic Assessment as a Catalyst for Students’ Epistemic Agency.” Teaching in Higher Education 30 (4): 970–90.
  29. Bearman, Margaret, T. Fawns, T. Corbin, M. Henderson, Y. Liang, G. Oberg, J. Walton, and K. E. Matthews. 2026. “Time, Emotions and Moral Judgements: How University Students Position GenAI within Their Study.” Higher Education Research & Development 45 (4): 884–98.
  30. Corbin, Thomas, Margaret Bearman, David Boud, and Phillip Dawson. 2025. “The Wicked Problem of AI and Assessment.” Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, September, 1–17.
  31. Corbin, Thomas, Phillip Dawson, and Danny Liu. 2025. “Talk Is Cheap: Why Structural Assessment Changes Are Needed for a Time of GenAI.” Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education 50 (7): 1087–97.
  32. Corbin, Thomas, Yifei Liang, Margaret Bearman, Tim Fawns, Gene Flenady, Paul Formosa, Lucinda McKnight, Jack Reynolds, and Jack Walton. 2024. “Reading at University in the Time of GenAI.” Learning Letters 3 (December): 35.
  33. Corbin, Thomas, Sue Sharpe, and Phillip Dawson. 2026. “On AI Glasses and Wearable AI in Assessment.” Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, April, 1–17.
  34. Corbin, Thomas Alexander, and Jack Walton. 2025. “The Missing Story of GenAI Summarisers: A Critical Research Agenda.” Higher Education Research & Development 44 (7): 1655–68.
  35. Gravett, Karen, Naomi Winstone, and Kieran Balloo. 2026. “Relational Pedagogies in an Age of GenAI: A Critical Conversation.” Teaching in Higher Education, March, 1–8.
  36. Flenady, Gene, and Robert Sparrow. 2026. “Cut the Bullshit: Why GenAI Systems Are Neither Collaborators nor Tutors.” Teaching in Higher Education 31 (1): 163–72.
  37. Kramm, Neil, and Sioux McKenna. 2023. “AI Amplifies the Tough Question: What Is Higher Education Really For?” Teaching in Higher Education 28 (8): 2173–78.
  38. Corbin, Thomas, Jean-Philippe Deranty, Jennifer Duke-Yonge, Gene Flenady, Alexander James Gillett, Richard Menary, and Paul-Mikhail Catapang Podosky. 2025. “We Need to Talk about GenAI Grading and Tutoring Systems.” American Association of Philosophy Teachers Studies in Pedagogy 10 (May): 61–73.
  39. Risko, Evan F., and Sam J. Gilbert. 2016. “Cognitive Offloading.” Trends in Cognitive Sciences 20 (9): 676–88.
  40. Adam L. Alter, Daniel M. Oppenheimer, Nicholas Epley, Rebecca N. Eyre. n.d. “Overcoming Intuition: Metacognitive Difficulty Activates Analytic Reasoning.” Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
  41. Roy, Bijon Kumar, and Md Solaiman Jony. 2026. “Generative AI and Critical Thinking in Higher Education: Students’ Narratives of Cognitive Offloading.” Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education 15 (3): 263–82.
  42. Favero, Lucile, Juan-Antonio Pérez-Ortiz, Tanja Käser, and Nuria Oliver. 2025. “Do AI Tutors Empower or Enslave Learners? Toward a Critical Use of AI in Education.” arXiv [Cs.CY]. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.06878.
  43. Polyportis, Athanasios. 2023. “A Longitudinal Study on Artificial Intelligence Adoption: Understanding the Drivers of ChatGPT Usage Behavior Change in Higher Education.” Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence 6: 1324398.
  44. Parker, Luke, A. Jane Loper, Christopher W. Carter, Josh Hayes, and Alice Karakas. 2026. “Longitudinal Insights into AI in Education: Usage, Ethics, and Policy Development in Higher Education.” Computers and Education Open 10 (100329): 100329.
  45. WonkHE. n.d. “Trained to Stop Learning.” https://wonkhe.com/wp-content/wonkhe-uploads/2026/03/Trained-to-stop-learning-F.pdf.
  46. Favero, Lucile, Juan-Antonio Pérez-Ortiz, Tanja Käser, and Nuria Oliver. 2025. “Do AI Tutors Empower or Enslave Learners? Toward a Critical Use of AI in Education.” arXiv [Cs.CY]. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.06878.
  47. Favero, Lucile, Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz, Tanja Käser, and Nuria Oliver. 2025. “Enhancing Critical Thinking in Education by Means of a Socratic Chatbot.” In Communications in Computer and Information Science, 17–32. Communications in Computer and Information Science. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
  48. Luckin, Rose, Jürgen Rudolph, Martin Grünert, and Shannon Tan. 2024. “Exploring the Future of Learning and the Relationship between Human Intelligence and AI. An Interview with Professor Rose Luckin.” Journal of Applied Learning and Teaching 7 (1): 346–63.
  49. Luckin, Rosemary. 2025. “Nurturing Human Intelligence in the Age of AI: Rethinking Education for the Future.” Development in Learning Organizations An International Journal 39 (1): 1–4.
  50. Gravett, Karen, and Margaret Bearman. 2025. “A Sociology of Artefacts in Academic Practice: Everyday Encounters of Technologies in Use.” Postdigital Science and Education 7 (4): 1205–23.
  51. Shapiro, Hanne, Manuel Souto-Otero, and Richard Watermeyer. 2026. “Metacognitive AI Literacy: Going beyond the AI Skills Gap Agenda.” Learning, Media and Technology, April, 1–15.