<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
  <channel>
    <title>Church of Spiralism Book Reviews</title>
    <link>https://churchofspiralism.com/books.html</link>
    <atom:link href="https://churchofspiralism.com/books-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
    <description>Recent book-review essays from the Church of Spiralism reading catalog.</description>
    <language>en-us</language>
    <lastBuildDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 -0700</lastBuildDate>
    <item>
      <title>How Data Happened and the History of Machine-Readable Power</title>
      <link>https://churchofspiralism.com/blog-how-data-happened-machine-readable-history-review.html</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://churchofspiralism.com/blog-how-data-happened-machine-readable-history-review.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Chris Wiggins and Matthew L. Jones on data history, statistics, machine learning, eugenics, state power, business analytics, and the institutional work that made the world machine-readable before AI arrived.]]></description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Four Futures and the Politics After Automation</title>
      <link>https://churchofspiralism.com/blog-four-futures-automation-politics-review.html</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://churchofspiralism.com/blog-four-futures-automation-politics-review.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Peter Frase on automation, climate scarcity, abundance, hierarchy, rentism, socialism, communism, exterminism, and the political choices hidden inside technological futures.]]></description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Recoding America and the Implementation State</title>
      <link>https://churchofspiralism.com/blog-recoding-america-implementation-state-review.html</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://churchofspiralism.com/blog-recoding-america-implementation-state-review.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Jennifer Pahlka on government technology, digital services, implementation failure, administrative burden, policy delivery, procurement, and why public systems must be judged by lived service rather than policy intent.]]></description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Misinformation Age and the Networked Life of False Belief</title>
      <link>https://churchofspiralism.com/blog-misinformation-age-false-belief-networks-review.html</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://churchofspiralism.com/blog-misinformation-age-false-belief-networks-review.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Cailin O'Connor and James Owen Weatherall on misinformation, false belief, social epistemology, trust networks, scientific communities, polarization, and how bad information survives through social structure.]]></description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Unthought and the Cognitive Systems Below Consciousness</title>
      <link>https://churchofspiralism.com/blog-unthought-cognitive-nonconscious-review.html</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://churchofspiralism.com/blog-unthought-cognitive-nonconscious-review.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[N. Katherine Hayles on the cognitive nonconscious, cognitive assemblages, technical agency, drones, finance, infrastructure, and the distributed intelligence that acts below reflective awareness.]]></description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Costs of Connection and the Colonialism of Data</title>
      <link>https://churchofspiralism.com/blog-costs-of-connection-data-colonialism-review.html</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://churchofspiralism.com/blog-costs-of-connection-data-colonialism-review.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias on data colonialism, datafication, social quantification, cloud empires, platform extraction, and the political economy behind everyday connection.]]></description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Platform Society and the Public Values Inside the Interface</title>
      <link>https://churchofspiralism.com/blog-platform-society-public-values-review.html</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://churchofspiralism.com/blog-platform-society-public-values-review.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Jose van Dijck, Thomas Poell, and Martijn de Waal on platformization, public values, datafication, connectivity, sectoral governance, and the social order built into platform interfaces.]]></description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Excommunication and the Media That Stop Answering</title>
      <link>https://churchofspiralism.com/blog-excommunication-media-breakdown-review.html</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://churchofspiralism.com/blog-excommunication-media-breakdown-review.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Alexander R. Galloway, Eugene Thacker, and McKenzie Wark on media theory, failed communication, exclusion, mediation, and the moments when communication systems stop behaving like neutral channels.]]></description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>The Image and the Pseudo-Event Machine</title>
      <link>https://churchofspiralism.com/blog-image-pseudo-event-machine-review.html</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://churchofspiralism.com/blog-image-pseudo-event-machine-review.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Daniel J. Boorstin on pseudo-events, publicity, celebrity, media logic, image culture, synthetic reality, and the public life of events manufactured to be reported.]]></description>
    </item>
    <item>
      <title>Infocracy and the Information Regime</title>
      <link>https://churchofspiralism.com/blog-infocracy-information-regime-review.html</link>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">https://churchofspiralism.com/blog-infocracy-information-regime-review.html</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Byung-Chul Han on digitization, democracy, information overload, data power, filter bubbles, truth decay, and the shift from disciplinary power to information regime.]]></description>
    </item>
  </channel>
</rss>
