https://kaizencode.art/library/Recent content in Library on Kaizen Craft: a Digital Garden by Kaitlin AlbasiHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usThu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/architectures_of_global_ai_governance/Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/architectures_of_global_ai_governance/An open-access OUP monograph on how to design global AI institutions that can survive sociotechnical change, legal disruption, and regime complexity.https://kaizencode.art/library/the_nature_of_code/Tue, 03 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/the_nature_of_code/Shiffman’s p5.js reboot of his classic simulation book: physics, emergence, evolutionary computing, and neural nets built from scratch so I can see the machinery.https://kaizencode.art/library/atlas_of_ai/Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/atlas_of_ai/Crawford maps AI as a material system of mines, warehouses, datasets, and state power, not a floating cloud of algorithms.https://kaizencode.art/library/the_alignment_problem/Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/the_alignment_problem/A reported tour of machine learning research on fairness, reward, imitation, and uncertainty, before chatbots made alignment a mainstream word.https://kaizencode.art/library/empire_of_ai/Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/empire_of_ai/An investigative account of OpenAI and the colonial supply chain of AI labor, from data scraping to underpaid content moderators in the Global South.https://kaizencode.art/library/race_after_technology/Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/race_after_technology/Benjamin’s New Jim Code framework shows how apps and algorithms encode racial hierarchy while marketing themselves as neutral upgrades.https://kaizencode.art/library/detroit_i_do_mind_dying/Fri, 31 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/detroit_i_do_mind_dying/History of revolutionary Black workers organizing in Detroit’s auto industryhttps://kaizencode.art/library/the_dispossessed/Thu, 19 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/the_dispossessed/A science fiction masterpiece exploring anarchism, capitalism, and utopian ideals through the story of a physicist traveling between two contrasting worldshttps://kaizencode.art/library/weapons_of_math_destruction/Tue, 01 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/weapons_of_math_destruction/A former quant’s tour of opaque scoring models that scale inequality across schools, jobs, credit, policing, and civic life.https://kaizencode.art/library/ai_needs_you/Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/ai_needs_you/A policy insider’s argument that AI’s future is a political choice requiring democratic public deliberation, not technical inevitability.https://kaizencode.art/library/human_compatible/Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/human_compatible/Stuart Russell argues the standard AI paradigm of fixed-objective optimization is dangerous, proposing uncertain preference models as a technical safety solution.https://kaizencode.art/library/rewiring_democracy/Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/rewiring_democracy/Maps how AI amplifies power across democratic institutions and argues for publicly built, publicly overseen AI rather than corporate infrastructure.https://kaizencode.art/library/plunder/Fri, 02 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/plunder/A clear-eyed exposé of how private equity firms extract wealth from American companies, workers, and communities, and a roadmap for reforming the system.https://kaizencode.art/library/map_of_future_ruins/Thu, 28 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/map_of_future_ruins/A searching blend of reportage, memoir, and cultural history, exploring the 2020 Moria refugee camp fire in Greece, the mechanics of borders and belonging, and the mythologies that shape migration and identity.https://kaizencode.art/library/give_people_money/Tue, 26 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/give_people_money/Universal basic income and cash transfers in an age of rapid technological changehttps://kaizencode.art/library/finish_what_we_started/Sat, 16 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/finish_what_we_started/A revealing investigation into the grassroots strategies and local organizing that have transformed the Republican Party and fueled the MAGA movement’s campaign to reshape American democracy from the ground up.https://kaizencode.art/library/alexander_hamilton/Thu, 14 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/alexander_hamilton/A masterful biography of America’s most misunderstood founding fatherhttps://kaizencode.art/library/museum_of_innocence/Wed, 16 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/museum_of_innocence/A disturbing tale of obsession masquerading as lovehttps://kaizencode.art/library/nomad_century/Mon, 09 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/nomad_century/Climate migration solutions and the political challenges of implementing themhttps://kaizencode.art/library/learning_processing/Tue, 03 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/learning_processing/Shiffman’s beginner path into code through images, animation, and interaction: Processing as a studio, not a syntax gauntlet.https://kaizencode.art/library/dear_earth/Sat, 13 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/dear_earth/Essays on art’s role in responding to environmental and social crisishttps://kaizencode.art/library/asians-in-colorado/Fri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/asians-in-colorado/The story of Chinese pioneers in the Westhttps://kaizencode.art/library/wayward_lives/Fri, 05 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/wayward_lives/Intimate histories of social upheaval and Black women’s resistancehttps://kaizencode.art/library/poverty_by_america/Sun, 04 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/poverty_by_america/A searing analysis of why poverty persists in the United States, arguing that it is actively created and maintained by policies and choices that benefit the affluent, and calling for systemic change to end poverty.https://kaizencode.art/library/open_city/Tue, 28 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/open_city/A Nigerian doctor’s wanderings through New York City and reflections on art, culture, and identityhttps://kaizencode.art/library/project_hail_mary/Sun, 23 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/project_hail_mary/Science fiction adventure with a distinctly nerdy tech narrative voicehttps://kaizencode.art/library/into_the_zone/Sun, 16 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/into_the_zone/Essays on opposites and borders, music and philosophyhttps://kaizencode.art/library/data_and_goliath/Fri, 24 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/data_and_goliath/A comprehensive critique of mass surveillance, exploring how governments and corporations collect, use, and abuse personal data, and offering practical and policy solutions to protect privacy in the digital age.https://kaizencode.art/library/data_structures_and_algorithms/Tue, 09 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/data_structures_and_algorithms/Computer science textbook with thoughtful examples but implementation errorshttps://kaizencode.art/library/left_legailism_left_critique/Sun, 02 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/left_legailism_left_critique/A groundbreaking collection examining how left political projects paradoxically mirror the power structures they seek to oppose through legal strategieshttps://kaizencode.art/library/how_to_avoid_climate_disaster/Mon, 15 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/how_to_avoid_climate_disaster/A tech-focused roadmap for addressing climate change through innovation and marketshttps://kaizencode.art/library/empire_of_cotton/Sun, 14 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/empire_of_cotton/A global history of capitalism through the lens of cotton production and labor exploitationhttps://kaizencode.art/library/tragedy_of_liberation/Sun, 14 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/tragedy_of_liberation/A harrowing account of the violence, famine, and repression that marked the early years of Communist rule in China, based on newly opened archives and survivor testimony.https://kaizencode.art/library/homeland_elegies/Fri, 19 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/homeland_elegies/A deeply personal work of fiction exploring Muslim-American identity and contemporary Americahttps://kaizencode.art/library/end_of_poverty/Tue, 13 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/end_of_poverty/Sachs argues that extreme global poverty can be ended through targeted aid, investment, and coordinated international action, but his ‘Big Push’ approach has sparked debate over its feasibility and effectiveness.https://kaizencode.art/library/leftover_in_china/Fri, 02 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/leftover_in_china/The Women Shaping the World’s Next Superpowerhttps://kaizencode.art/library/the_berry_pickers/Fri, 02 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/the_berry_pickers/A heartbreaking debut about a Mi’kmaq family devastated by the disappearance of their youngest daughter and the decades of trauma that followhttps://kaizencode.art/library/and_still_i_rise/Tue, 28 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/and_still_i_rise/A powerful collection of poems celebrating resilience and the triumph of the human spirit over oppressionhttps://kaizencode.art/library/staying_with_the_trouble/Fri, 24 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/staying_with_the_trouble/A poetic, radical reimagining of multispecies futures and interdependence in the face of ecological crisis.https://kaizencode.art/library/go_ahead_in_the_rain/Mon, 03 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/go_ahead_in_the_rain/A genre-bending, deeply personal tribute to A Tribe Called Quest, blending music history, memoir, and cultural criticism to explore the group’s legacy and the meaning of fandom, Black art, and survival.https://kaizencode.art/library/vanishing_new_york/Mon, 03 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/vanishing_new_york/A passionate chronicle of New York City’s transformation under gentrification, documenting the loss of small businesses, cultural landmarks, and the city’s unique character.https://kaizencode.art/library/capital_city/Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/capital_city/A critical analysis of how real estate interests shape urban planning, gentrification, and political power in New York City and beyondhttps://kaizencode.art/library/in_other_words/Mon, 20 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/in_other_words/A memoir about learning to write in Italian and the relationship between language and identityhttps://kaizencode.art/library/china_in_ten_words/Sun, 19 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/china_in_ten_words/Tragicomic reflections on China’s transformation through personal and cultural memoryhttps://kaizencode.art/library/the_art_of_raising_a_puppy/Thu, 23 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/the_art_of_raising_a_puppy/A comprehensive guide to puppy training and canine behavior from America’s most trusted dog training authoritieshttps://kaizencode.art/library/bowling_alone/Sun, 27 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/bowling_alone/A landmark study of the decline of social capital and community engagement in late 20th-century America, and its consequences for democracy and civic life.https://kaizencode.art/library/radical_chic/Sun, 27 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/radical_chic/Satirical essays on liberal politics and social dynamics in 1960s New Yorkhttps://kaizencode.art/library/real_cost_of_prison/Thu, 19 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/real_cost_of_prison/A graphic introduction to the realities of mass incarceration in the U.S., using comics to break down the economic, social, and racial costs of the prison system.https://kaizencode.art/library/the_book_of_laughter_and_forgetting/Mon, 01 Jan 1979 00:00:00 +0000https://kaizencode.art/library/the_book_of_laughter_and_forgetting/A kaleidoscopic novel blending memory, politics, and desire, exploring the fragile boundaries between laughter and forgetting in postwar Czechoslovakia.