If you’re looking to expand your knowledge or enjoy some stimulating reads over the holiday season, take a look at these holiday reading tips from our team!
- Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Classifications and the Dangers of Inclusion by Kevin Guyan
This book reveals how the fight for LGBTQ equalities in the UK is shaped – and constrained – by the classifications we encounter every day. Read more.
- Text Games by Aaron A. Reed
For fifty years, writers have been creating interactive fiction on digital platforms. From text adventures to VR poetry, MUDS to mobile dating sims, chatbots to roguelikes, these games without graphics have pioneered new genres of interactive storytelling and engaged imaginations with prose and code. Now you can (re)discover these games in a beautiful book chronicling the first half-century of video games made from words. Read more.
- Sci-Fi Tales Collection from the IViR Writing Competition on Digi Con Blog
The IViR Sci Fi writing competition was born out of the idea that science fiction and information law have much in common. Not only is there a fair share of law in science fiction, but information law experts and science fiction authors also share a vivid interest in the way technology is interfacing and transforming our digital society, and the values and rules that matter to us. Read more and submit a Sci Fi tale yourself!
- Cibernetic Circulation Complex: Big Tech Planetary Crisis by Alessandra Muraloni & Nick Dyer-Witheford
In this brilliant survey of global tech economy, Nick Dyer-Witheford and Alessandra Mularoni argue that the role of firms like Amazon and Google, Palantir and Uber, is in the automation of circulation. By applying digital technologies to processes of market exchange—everything from advertising and shopping, to logistics and financial services—Big Tech aims to subject these activities to the level of control and predictability that capital has secured in industrial production. Read more.
Happy holidays and see you in 2026!
