Civic reading
Send a Book to Your Representative
Share a book about AI with your senator, representative or another public decision-maker. One paperback is $9.99 USD; the ten-book series is $99.90, plus shipping and tax.
Send a book. No software update required.
Public discussion deserves something longer than a headline. Send a Book to Your Representative is an invitation to share Terms of Extraction with the people making public decisions about AI. Choose a book for your senator, representative or another relevant office—or send the complete series. Clip is available for commentary. He is not standing for election.
The ten books explore the writing, water, energy, work, money and trust consumed by the AI boom. They combine public record with satire and point readers toward the researchers and journalists behind the reporting. A paperback leaves room for questions, annotations and the occasional raised eyebrow. No password reset required.
Whose reading list?
Consider the offices whose work touches the subjects in the series:
• Senators and members of the House working on technology, privacy, competition or labor.
• Governors and state legislators considering AI in public services, employment, energy and water use.
• Mayors and local councillors dealing with data centers, local resources or public technology purchases.
• Relevant policy advisers and committee staff researching these issues for public decision-makers.
This is a broad, nonpartisan invitation to share reading and support informed discussion. Choose a relevant office and check its public mailing and book-acceptance instructions before ordering. A place on an office reading list is an invitation to engage with the material, not a promise of a response or an endorsement.
A book, or the whole shelf
One paperback is $9.99 USD. The complete ten-book series is $99.90 USD, with shipping and applicable tax added at checkout. The series comes as ten individual paperbacks.
Choose a title in the shop, or add each of the ten books once for the complete series. Send it to the office using its approved mailing details. You can also read the first three chapters of every book free and explore the original research linked on this website.
The future has had plenty of presentations. Perhaps it could use a reading list. Clip suggests starting with the footnotes.
