This book collects essays up to 2020. It was originally put together during lockdown in 2020. I needed something to do.
For twenty years or so I've put down my thoughts on design, and technology, and ethics. Essays after essay. Some of those essays get turned into talks, some of them get blown out into books, but the essay has always been the native form for all these. I am, at heart, an essay writer. I love the form. It's long enough to be nuanced, and short enough to get it out immediately. All the essays here have already appeared somewhere. Some might be familiar. But I thought it'd be nice to get them all in one book. Cause man I love holding a book, and flipping through it, and writing notes in the margins. Also, I added a bunch of footnotes to the essays. So that's new.
This is the Shitty Pulp Edition. The typography is appalling, practically illegible. And the form factor is small, like a common laborer—or even a socialist!—could carry it in their back pocket! The cover looks like something you found in your uncle’s bathroom as children. It’s really awful. Do you need it? You do not. Do you want it? You absolutely fucking do. It’s SO stupid. Also, it’s $12.
The nice version is here, and if you actually want to, you know—read it—that’s the one to get. But if you already have it, get this one. You will love it, and you’ll be contributing to people making weird shit.
WAIT. The cover says it’s two books in one. Is there really a second book if I flip it over? What is it?
There is. And it’s delightful. You’ll have to buy it to find out. Life sucks that way.
WHAT’S NEW IN THE 2025 SHITTY PULP EDITION?
I mean, the cover’s amazing.
We actually get paid a fair share of every book sale now because we’re publishing ourselves. And you, my beloved, are supporting independent publishing.
What’s special about the shitty pulp edition?
It’s printed like ass.
WHERE CAN I BUY IT?
You can buy it online from your favorite retailer using the links right on this page. You can also walk into your local and ask them to order it, it’s in the Ingram database. You can even tell them how excellent it is and suggest they order a few to keep in stock.
Also available at 💩m💩zon, but fuck them.
“This book is a confessional, an admission of guilt and longing and regret. It’s the honest, sometimes confrontational conversation we need to have with each other collectively, as a nation, and can’t or won’t, for so many obvious reasons.’””