Resources

I collect resources on this page. These include documents I compiled (for myself, students, colleagues, or friends) and lists of literature, podcasts, and other media I have found valuable.

Documents and Compilations

Overview and link collection document (in German) about Ethical Issues with GenAI (to English speakers, these days: read Karen Hao’s Empire of AI).

Self-help and resource collection document on Being Autistic in Academia, also published as the Evil Autistic Masterplan for Academia, HCI Edition. A pdf version of it (without the resource list) for printing out and making into little scrolls can be found here.

All materials necessary for conducting the Copy-Paste-Hentai! workshops can be downloaded at the bottom of that page.

Recommendations

I try to update this regularly, and try to keep the lists short (i.e. list only what I think is the most relevant or the best), so lists will change.

Books:

Books are still the best way to transfer Knowledge as quickly and efficiently as possible, provided they are written in a way that is easy to read. Which a few of the below are not, but I still find them valuable.

Design Theory (critical)

  • Design Justice — Sasha Costanza-Chock
  • The Politics of Design — Ruben Pater
  • Design for the Real World — Victor Papanek
  • Hidden Persuasion — Andrews, Van Leeuwen & Van Baaren

Design Handbooks (practical)

  • Thinking With Type — Ellen Lupton
  • Delft Design Guide — Annemiek van Boeijen et al.

Extremism and (Social) Media

  • The Rage — Julia Ebner
  • Platforms and Cultural Production — Poell, Nieborg & Duffy

Critical Theory, Queerness & Disability

  • All About Love — bell hooks
  • Gender Trouble — Judith Butler
  • Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice — Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
  • Unmasking Autism — Devon Price
  • Complaint! — Sara Ahmed

Our Relationship to Nature

  • Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need The Wild — Lucy Jones
  • Braiding Sweetgrass — Robin Wall Kimmerer

Technology Ethics

  • Empire of AI — Karen Hao

Video Essays and Video Essayists

Because sometimes it’s a lot easier to watch a video to get familiar with a topic than read a book, I often send video essays I find summarise things well to my colleagues or students.

Olurinatti, feat. Da’Shaun L. Harrison, on Ugliness. I find this an extremely overlooked in Queer discourse, especially in academia, especially with regards to transness. If you like it, her video “How Men Become Aziz Ansari” is also great.

Ember Greene on Aspie Supremacy. I find this a really good exploration of Eugenics in the modern day. For more pop-cultural discussions in that Direction, her video “Harry Potter is also Ableist” is also great.

Innuendo Studios on gamergate, a precursor movement to the alt-right. This person also has a really good series of videos collectively known as the “alt-right playbook” that dissects alt-right strategies that I also highly recommend.

Podcasts:

These are a bit of a mixed bag in terms of topics and may not seem directly related to my academic expertise, but a lot of them did inform my work.

  • Cui Bono: Wer hat Angst vorm Drachenlord?
    German-Language investigative report on online mob bullying. Good for understanding online hate and social media.
  • Maintenance Phase
    Debunking of Nutritional and Public Health myths and pseudoscience. Good for praciticing critical consumption of scientific publications, and for fat liberation and body neutrality.
  • All my Relations
    US-hosted, decolonial and justice-oriented podcast about indigenous topics. Every white person, especially from North America, should tune in.
  • Seelenfänger
    German-Language investigations into cults. Helps understand online hate groups, and Tech Bros.
  • Hörsaal
    German-Language recordings of academic lectures on a variety of topics. Pick topics you are interested in.