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shelves in April 2026
My library.
My physical library, photographed then sorted. Eighty-nine books on my shelves, six sections. What follows is not a marketing-grade "recommended reading list" : it is a faithful record.
Not all of it is great. Some have struck me deeply, others still sleep. A few are there for sentimental reasons.
If you want to start somewhere : Sadin, Corteel and Carbonell for the contemporary critique of AI; Han and Arendt for the philosophy of the present; Harari, Zinn and Graeber for the long fresco. Alongside, I regularly re-read Deleuze, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Michel Foucault and Yann Moulier Boutang.
Titles are kept in their original language. Many of these books sit on my shelves in French.
01 Artificial intelligence
Le désert de nous-mêmes
Ni dieu, ni IA : une philosophie sceptique de l'intelligence artificielle
Un taylorisme augmenté : critique de l'intelligence artificielle
Why we fear AI : on the interpretation of nightmares
Apocalypse Nerds
Algorithmes, la bombe à retardement
Pionniers : voyage aux frontières de l'intelligence artificielle
Artificial Intelligence : A Guide for Thinking Humans
Le paradigme perdu : la nature humaine
Quick Start Guide to Large Language Models
The Singularity Is Near
Klara and the Sun
Intelligence artificielle
02 Philosophy & thought
The Human Condition
Penser librement
L'Obsolescence de l'homme
Gravity and Grace
Le bouc émissaire
Critique of Pure Reason
Critique of Practical Reason
A History of Western Philosophy (vols. 1 & 2)
Le mythe de Sisyphe
Vita contemplativa
The Transparency Society
The End of Things
The Crisis of Narration
The Palliative Society : pain today
The Expulsion of the Other
The Disappearance of Rituals
Infocracy : digitization and the crisis of democracy
Psychopolitics : neoliberalism and new technologies of power
Parler de Dieu : un dialogue avec Simone Weil
Dans la disruption : comment ne pas devenir fou ?
Don Quixote
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Sontag : selected works
The Wisdom of Insecurity
Les vertus de l'échec
The Art of War
La philosophie de l'esprit libre dans Nietzsche
Anthology of German poetry
03 Society, history, technocritique
Sapiens : a brief history of humankind
Homo Deus : a brief history of tomorrow
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
The Dawn of Everything : a new history of humanity
A People's History of the United States
Age of Anger : a history of the present
The Sleepwalkers : summer 1914
Who Rules the World?
On Tyranny : twenty lessons from the 20th century
End Times : élites, counter-élites, and the path of political disintegration
The Empathic Civilization
The Black Swan : the impact of the highly improbable
The Power of One : how I found the strength to tell the truth
Permanent Record
Super Pumped : the battle for Uber
Modern Romance
Dé-coder : une contre-histoire du numérique
Explosive modernité : malaise dans la vie intérieure
Le temps de l'obsolescence humaine
Le capital linguistique : une sociologie du langage
La technique ou l'enjeu du siècle
Le bluff technologique
Hooked : how to build habit-forming products
Seeing What Others Don't : the remarkable ways we gain insights
04 Business, leadership, biographies
Leonardo da Vinci
Elon Musk
Build : an unorthodox guide to making things worth making
Creativity, Inc.
Crossing the Chasm
No Rules Rules : Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
Rework
Remote : office not required
Reboot : leadership and the art of growing up
Exponential : order and chaos in an age of accelerating technology
Bolder : making the most of our longer lives
05 Tech & code
Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras & TensorFlow
Generative Deep Learning
Architecture Patterns with Python
Fluent Python
Learning TypeScript
Mastering Ethereum
Building Ethereum DApps
Blockchain in Action
Blockchain Revolution
Form + Code in Design, Art, and Architecture
Hypermedia Systems
06 Documentaries & media
The Social Dilemma
The Great Hack : the Cambridge Analytica affair