The Media I Consumed in 2021

I have started listing the books that I have read during the year, to give a partial account of the what influences and guides my own thinking. I’ve grouped the books according to the projects I was thinking about when picking them up. However, in retrospect these categories are in many ways overlapping and arbitrary).

Energy Transition

• Book: “Thinking Like a Climate: Governing a City in Times of Environmental Change”
  by Hannah Knox (link)
  • Coverage: [++++++++++]
• Book: “Energy: A Human History”
  by Richard Rhodes (link)
  • Coverage: [++++++++++]
• Mailinglist: “Best in Energy” by John Kemp, sign up: http://eepurl.com/dxTcl1
  • daily digest of energy news, market analysis, and research notes
• Mailinglist: “Open Energy Modelling Initiative” maintained by a grass root initiative of modellers from various universities and research institutes across the world: https://openmod-initiative.org
  • TO exchange ideas and source code, lobby for policy support for open projects, and actively share data, code and knowhow

Digital Platforms for Political Participations

• Book: “Problem Spaces: How and Why Methodology Matters”
  by Celia Lury (link)
  • Coverage: [++++++++++]
• Book: “Engines of Order: A Mechanology of Algorithmic Techniques”
  by Bernhard Rieder (link)
  • Coverage: [++++______]
• Book: “Undoing Optimization: Civic Action in Smart Cities”
  by Alison B Powell (link)
  • Coverage: [++++______]
• Mailinglist: “Dave Beer - The Fragment” by Prof. David Beer: https://davidbeer.substack.com A newsletter about technology, media, culture and ideas.

Internet Governance

• Book: “The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty”
  by Benjamin H. Bratton (link)
  • Coverage: [++++++____]
• Book: “Pax Technica: How the Internet of Things May Set Us Free or Lock Us Up”
  by Philip N. Howard (link)
  • Coverage: [++++______]
• Book: “Law for Computer Scientists and Other Folk”
  by Mireille Hildebrandt; ISBN-13: 9780198860884
  • Coverage: [++________]

Miscellaneous

• Book: “Database of Dreams: The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity”
  by Rebecca Lemov (link)
  • Coverage: [++++_______]
• Book: “Data Feminism”
  by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein (link)
  • Coverage: [++++++++++]
• Book: “The Data Gaze: Capitalism, Power and Perception”
  by David Beer (link)
  • Coverage: [++++++++++]
• Book: “Disciplining Statistics: Demography and Vital Statistics in France and England, 1830–1885”
  by Libby Schweber (link)
  • Coverage: [++++______]
• Book: “The Politics of Possibility: Risk and Security Beyond Probability”
  by Louise Amoore (link)
  • Coverage: [++++++++++]
• Book: “Red Pill”
  by Hari Kunzru (link)
  • Coverage: [++++++++++]
• Book: “The Lost Pianos of Siberia”
  by Sophy Roberts (link)
  • Coverage: [++++++++++]
• Book: “Kurdish Women’s Stories”
  edited by Houzan Mahmoud (link)
  • Coverage: [++++++++++]
• Book: “Burning Chrome”
  by William Gibson (link)
  • Coverage: [++++++++++]
• Book: “Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds”
  by Mary Shelley and edited by David H. Guston, Ed Finn and Jason Scott Robert (link)
  • Coverage: [++++++++++]
• Book: “We”
  by Yevgeny Zamyatin; ISBN-13: 9780140185850
  • Coverage: [++++++++++]
• Book: “The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England”
  by Graham Robb (link)
  • Coverage: [++++++++++]