Annihilation VanderMeer, Jeff (10th Anniversary Ed.)

Recommended by:  Johanna Hedva

“I love this book, how bizarre it is and how nothing is really explained. With divination and AI, I am most drawn to the unknowability of it. One of the reasons we think of technology as being magic is this unknowability, but the other nefarious side of that is how proprietary tech and software companies purposefully obscure how their tools work. Joey Cannizzaro gets into this in their essay High Priests of Mass Data, how big data and mass surveillance could be positioned as religious projects, how technological obfuscation gives corporations and the state an unquestioned metaphysical power.”