The Information Age: Cybernetics, Systems, Media
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The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society
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Norbert Wiener
4.02 avg rating β 885 ratings 
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A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
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Gilles Deleuze
4.33 avg rating β 6,897 ratings 
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Cybernetics: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
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Norbert Wiener
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 746 ratings 
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The Global Village: Transformations in World Life and Media in the 21st Century
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Marshall McLuhan
4.09 avg rating β 300 ratings 
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Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web
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Tim Berners-Lee
3.91 avg rating β 863 ratings 
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The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man
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Marshall McLuhan
4.13 avg rating β 1,224 ratings 
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A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age 3.76 avg rating β 4,623 ratings
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After Snowden: Privacy, Secrecy, and Security in the Information Age
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Ronald Goldfarb
3.69 avg rating β 64 ratings 20. 
Blur: How to Know What's True in the Age of Information Overload
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Bill Kovach
3.70 avg rating β 403 ratings 
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Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can Do About It
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Richard Stengel
3.76 avg rating β 614 ratings 
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
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Edward S. Herman
4.24 avg rating β 23,239 ratings 26. 
Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology
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Gregory Bateson
4.26 avg rating β 1,457 ratings 26. 
Trance Mediums and New Media: Spirit Possession in the Age of Technical Reproduction
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Anja Dreschke
4.50 avg rating β 2 ratings 26. 
The Desktop Regulatory State: The Countervailing Power of Individuals and Networks
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Kevin A. Carson
4.42 avg rating β 24 ratings 
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Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 42) 4.28 avg rating β 329 ratings
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Kingdom of Lies: Unnerving Adventures in the World of Cybercrime
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Kate Fazzini
3.18 avg rating β 426 ratings 33. 
How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics 4.06 avg rating β 888 ratings
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The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats 4.03 avg rating β 790 ratings
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The Pentagon of Power (The Myth of the Machine, Vol 2)
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Lewis Mumford
4.38 avg rating β 197 ratings 36. 
The New Human in Literature: Posthuman Visions of Changes in Body, Mind and Society After 1900 3.33 avg rating β 6 ratings
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The Perfect Weapon: How the Cyber Arms Race Set the World Afire
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David E. Sanger
4.25 avg rating β 3,384 ratings 
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The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture
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Brian Dear
4.14 avg rating β 344 ratings 45. 
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature
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Donna J. Haraway
4.15 avg rating β 1,847 ratings 45. 
The Internet of Us: Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data 3.51 avg rating β 532 ratings
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The Reflexive Thesis: Wrighting Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
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Malcolm Ashmore
4.67 avg rating β 3 ratings 47. 
Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter 3.97 avg rating β 123 ratings
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The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism
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Jeremy Rifkin
3.92 avg rating β 2,056 ratings 50. 
Internet Wars: The Struggle for Power in the 21st Century
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Fergus Hanson
4.81 avg rating β 26 ratings 51. 
Original Whole Earth Catalog, Special 30th Anniversary Issue
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Peter Warshall
4.44 avg rating β 275 ratings 
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From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
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Fred Turner
3.98 avg rating β 656 ratings 
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How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone
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Brian McCullough
4.27 avg rating β 2,058 ratings 57. 
Philosophy and Simulation: The Emergence of Synthetic Reason
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Manuel DeLanda
3.91 avg rating β 128 ratings 57. 
McLuhan Hot and Cool: A Primer for the Understanding of McLuhan
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G.E. Stearn
3.90 avg rating β 10 ratings 
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Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society
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Bruno Latour
4.03 avg rating β 638 ratings 
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The Creative Process: Reflections on Invention in the Arts and Sciences 3.72 avg rating β 133 ratings
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The Rules of Art: Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field
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Pierre Bourdieu
4.09 avg rating β 420 ratings 67. 
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
by:
Geoffrey B. West
4.11 avg rating β 5,360 ratings 
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The Human Superorganism: How the Microbiome Is Revolutionizing the Pursuit of a Healthy Life
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Rodney Dietert
3.96 avg rating β 693 ratings 
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The Reality Game: How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth
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Samuel Woolley
3.49 avg rating β 184 ratings 
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The Dream of Reality: Heinz von Foersterβs Constructivism
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Lynn Segal
3.95 avg rating β 19 ratings 
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The Beginning of Heaven and Earth Has No Name: Seven Days with Second-Order Cybernetics 4.30 avg rating β 33 ratings
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Writing Machines (Mediaworks Pamphlets) (Mediawork Pamphlets Series) 3.82 avg rating β 211 ratings
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The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding 4.20 avg rating β 1,302 ratings
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Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature
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Ilya Prigogine
4.05 avg rating β 624 ratings 91. 
From Being to Becoming: Time and Complexity in the Physical Sciences
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Ilya Prigogine
4.09 avg rating β 65 ratings 
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Observing Complexity: Systems Theory and Postmodernity
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William Rasch
3.80 avg rating β 10 ratings 98. 
Emergence and Embodiment: New Essays on Second-Order Systems Theory
by:
Mark B.N. Hansen
4.04 avg rating β 28 ratings 
