System Processing

What a week. Hell, what a start to this millennium. But these past few years in particular have me thinking about the systems we live within, the structures we erect, and a yearning to reconsider them thoughtfully. Toward that end, I have my eye on these three books, in no particular order:

• Lee Drutman, Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020)
• Zeynep Tufekci, Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017)
• Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (New York: New York University Press, 2018)