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<center>SCLCS. SGM.<br>'''Nathan Wilson Cravens'''<br>
Nathan Wilson Cravens is a professor by conduct currently pursuing a position at Hull College, Yorkshire, England.
 
Latest Publication: [https://medium.com/@nwcrav/the-emergency-consultant-will-see-you-now-98028fa66697?postPublishedType=repub The Emergency Consultant Will See You Now (June 28, 2019)]<br><br></center>
 
[https://twitter.com/nwcrav @nwcrav] | [mailto:knuggy@gmail.com Contact] || Nathan's Music at [http://www.mixcloud.com/MercuriusBrittanicus/ Mixcloud] & [https://soundcloud.com/user885444511 Soundcloud]. Self-released album: [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19SJNVzfVyLkOU0tAAwY4tnmooCrJ-QOGeSDPRktv6ws/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000 Salvation]. Always seeking music collaborations. || Former Occupy Librarian (London) || Founder [https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCIQFjAAahUKEwi9o6mZv_bHAhXCuRQKHcKkC14&url=https%3A%2F%2Fgroups.google.com%2Fd%2Fforum%2Fopenmanufacturing&usg=AFQjCNGH0eNGqmJVq5jC9Q1ebrM70mTXBA&sig2=8Kamg3bnW6mcmgZ7mANpgQ Open Manufacturing Discussion] which has yet to achieve its goals; still floundering (or flourishing) in hobbyism, startup incubators and accelerators, government research, and academia. If you are into hardware, see discussions at [http://www.oshwa.org/ OSHWA] and the open source hardware incubator, [https://www.wevolver.com/home Wevolver]. Finally, subscribe to [https://theprepared.org/ The Prepared].
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Recent non-fiction publications: [https://medium.com/@nwcrav/thoughts-on-democratising-cad6115198c8 Thoughts on Democratising (June 27, 2019)] | [https://medium.com/@nwcrav/why-dont-machines-do-the-work-a27a0c3ac052 Why Don't Machines Do the Work?] | [https://medium.com/@nwcrav/the-humanoid-machinist-or-what-is-art-42efd72cdcec#.gdnj65o2j The Humanoid Machinist. . or, What is Art?] | [https://medium.com/@nwcrav/from-big-to-small-open-fabrication-modular-production-programmable-matter-d276277b17e#.97rzq9jnq From Big to Small: Open Fabrication, Modular Production, & Programmable Matter] | [https://medium.com/@nwcrav/a-quest-for-greater-freedom-aed8f8aa785#.10g9milby An Ode to Platform Cooperativism: The Quest for Greater Freedom] | [https://medium.com/@nwcrav/a-rescue-package-for-refugees-b35b1c03999#.oa86wb91e Introducing a Rescue Package for Refugees] | For a foundation or context start with [[The Holistic Problem of Manufacturing]]<br><br>
Thanks for listening and reading. Don't hesitate to get in touch, we all need the encouragement to do different and brave things. Or, just binge on BreadTube. 
 
=Reddit Roll Call=
 
* r/ClimateActionPlan
* r/DesignPorn/
* r/PostScarcity
* r/TZM
* r/circulareconomy
* r/Permaculture
* r/engineering
* r/Futurology
* r/LateStageCapitalism
* r/collapse
* r/BreadTube
 
=Readings=
 
==Books I'm Reading. .==
* Drawdown. Paul Hawken
* Sharp's Dictionary of Power and Struggle
* This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century. Mark Engler, Paul Engler
* Unlocking Sustainable Cities. Paul Chatterton
* Doughnut Economics. Kate Raworth
* How to Invent Everything. Ryan North
* Coders. Clive Thompson
* Beyond Biocentrism. Robert Lanza
* People's Republic of Walmart
* Giants: The Global Power Elite. Peter Phillips
* Upheaval. Jared Diamond
* Team Human. Douglas Rushkoff
* The Uninhabitable Earth
 
==Michel Bauwens Top 4==
* 1. The Great Transformation, Karl Polanyi, the history of the ebbs and flows within capitalism
* 2. The Ever-Present Origin, Jean Gebser, the history of evolving modes of consciousness
* 3. The Structure of World History, Kojin Karatani, the history of modes of exchange
* 4. Linages of Modernity, Emmanuel Todd, how deep structures of family , religion and education influence the past and present of humanity and what we can expect in the next decades
 
==Agriculture==
The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World. Amanda Little
 
==Futures==
* Singularity is Near. Raymond Kurzweil
* Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI. John Brockman (Ed.)
* The Wizard & The Prophet. Charles C. Mann
* Foundations of Futures Studies. Volumes 1 & 2. Wendell Bell
* Superforecasting. Philip E. Tetlock. Dan Gardner
* Four Futures: Life After Capitalism. Peter Frase
* The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch. Lewis Dartnell
 
==Business as Usual==
*Zero-to-One. Peter Thiel
*Zucked: The Education of an Unlikely Activist. Roger McNamee
*The Upstarts. Brad Stone
*Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup. John Carreyrou
*Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal. Nick Bilton
*Black Box Thinking: The Surprising Truth About Success. Matthew Syed
*Crossing the Chasm. 3rd Ed. Geoffrey Moore
*[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bH5nMrhSXGB5LlwqEEUOXk1AjoGFkuKclqOh3yd9HDc/pub The Rise of Superman. Steven Kotler]
*[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m1uDzf0D0CmlyrIiEcHrg0ZR2VvFWnM2303BvY73l34/edit?usp=sharing Exponential Organizations. Salim Ismail et al.]
*Made in America. Sam Walton
*[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rtYxkBP9ve4beV9s0h30-nFpYoYCmUSwI8NuZli2LFg/edit?usp=sharing BOLD: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World. Peter Diamandis & Steven Kotler]
*[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m8L6CyAXG3Fqv3coLGRegVsqAhj0kj41FDe_oqBghPs/edit?usp=sharing The Hard Thing About Hard Things. Ben Horowitz]
*[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nrSd02FfZEsa6VkTmTk68XBPFbIwejV_NN7Jyaa_8ho/edit?usp=sharing The Lean Startup. Eric Ries]
*Getting More: How to Negotiate to Achieve Your Goals in the Real World. Stuart Diamond
*Power: Why Some People Have It—and Others Don't. Jeffrey Pfeffer
*Speakrets. Ruth Sherman
 
==Alt-Business==
* Reinventing Organizations. Frederic Laloux
* Big-box Swindle. Stacy Mitchell
 
==Alternative & Grassroots Organization==
* Dictionary of Alternatives. Martin Parker, Patrick Reedy, and Valerie Fournier
* The Conquest of Bread. Peter Kropotkin
* The Desktop Regulatory State. Kevin Carson
* Designing Regenerative Cultures. Daniel Wahl
* Miraculous Abundance. Perrine Hervé-Gruyer. Charles Hervé-Gruyer
* Holacracy. Brian J. Robertson
* The Routledge Companion to Alternative Organization (Also See: Dictionary of Alternatives)
 
==Inequality==
* Winners Take All. The Elite Charade of Changing the World. Anand Giridharadas
* [https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=12wTKNfQNlKegVFBt6Kmv-xkdWvNp4ayrdKbrqexa3JA Spirit Level]. Richard Wilkinson. Kate Pickett
* The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity... Richard Wilkinson. Kate Pickett
* Wealth and Poverty of Nations. David S. Landes
 
==Precariat / Unnecissariat==
* America: The Farewell Tour. Chris Hedges
* Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century. Jessica Bruder
* Bullshit Jobs: A Theory. David Graeber
* Uberworked and Underpaid: How Workers Are Disrupting the Digital Economy. Trebor Scholz
* Remote: Office Not Required. David Heinemeier Hansson. Jason Fried
 
==What, Work?!==
* The Soul of Man under Socialism. Oscar Wilde
* Why Work? Arguments for the Leisure Society. David Graeber, Juliet Schor, ect.
* Undoing Work. James Chamberlain
* The Refusal of Work: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work. David Frayne
 
==Social Justice & Progress==
* Fully Automated Luxury Communism. Aaron Bastani
* Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work. Nick Srnicek
* Lost Connections. Johann Hari
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v4chyRmfZqlD5cXgCeAjwzx5-UBMwNtwohMPhElpj5k/pub PostCapitalism. Paul Mason]
* Critical Path. Richard Buckminster Fuller
* [https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1v_rGAcH9YeaTMCJMXclgTb9iYzXMeaZzp1fA5S96oeo Free is Cheaper. Ken Smith]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=15ncwoRfEUd4OVfb7KWC1E-p2auz37J1RNONI6b1-GwM Workshops Tomorrow. Kropotkin. Colin Ward]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1CuxjqrVYvMu-GcSkmFM8krXhbddxf8N2mJ5Qn-Vo2vA Envisioning Real Utopia. Erik Olin Wright]
* New Human Rights Movement. Peter Joseph
 
==Resistance, Rebellion, & Revolution==
* Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds. Adrienne Maree Brown
* Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict. Erica Chenoweth. Maria J. Stephan
* Sharp's Dictionary of Power and Struggle
* This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century. Mark Engler, Paul Engler
* This is Not a Drill. Extinction Rebellion
* The Political Thought of Abdullah Öcalan: Kurdistan, Woman's Revolution and Democratic Confederalism. Abdullah Öcalan
* Revolution in Rojava: Democratic Autonomy and Women’s Liberation in the Syrian Kurdistan. Knapp, Ayboga, Flach, Biehl
* Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook. Mark Bray
* Translating Anarchy: The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street. Mark Bray
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Suicide Revolutionary Suicide. Huey P. Newton]
 
==Peer Production / The Commons==
* Shareable's Sharing Cities
* [http://www.iftf.org/fileadmin/user_upload/downloads/wfi/IFTF_UniversalBasicAssets_map_SR-1968.pdf Universal Basic Assets IFTF Manifesto]
* Ours to Hack and to Own
* Network Society & Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy. Michel Bauwens. Vasilis Kostakis.
* Wealth of the Commons. David Bollier (Ed). Silke Helfrich (Ed).
* Governing the Commons.  Elinor Olstrom
* [http://docs.google.com/View?id=dg2jzdft_197gff727c8 Clay Shirky. Here Comes Everybody]
* [http://docs.google.com/View?id=dg2jzdft_193cj5qz6hj Chris Anderson. The Long Tail]
* [http://docs.google.com/View?id=dg2jzdft_187gpbqzsgf Matt Mason. The Pirates Dilemma]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1QQk0Iw80juWo7enf-OGXBF-Km2PisDPqPrvDXVtHG7c Richard Sennet. Together: Rituals, Pleasures, and Politics]
 
==U.S. Imperialism==
* Democracy for the Few. 9th Edition. Michael Parenti
* How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States. Daniel Immerwahr
* Surveillance Valley. Yasha Levine
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W-I-XpJGH52dtDNZrzbxpz49QNlZu6JW2-sqWZ5Dn00/pub 935 Lies. Charles Lewis]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EW0fq8PC0IDUn3fMG--nHf6wxMg7hq_6xg7x4oJqhm8/pub Griftopia. Matt Taibbi]
* Hoodwinked. John Perkins
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ECMGqkRAt0jQch4pkEqeBv7cnTj3YvqYIEr8xpDKQxE/pub Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire. Niall Ferguson]
* The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to The US Empire. Julian Assange
* Clinton Cash. Peter Schweizer
* Fear: Trump in the White House. Bob Woodward
* The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government. Mike Lofgren
 
==Hegemony==
* The Dictator's Handbook. Bruce Bueno de Mesquita. Alastair Smith
* AI Superpowers. Kai-Fu Lee
* Business as a System of Power. Robert A. Brady
* World Order. Kissinger
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bQ-G8-UVUzmKO9QG-ThsquqqJEb7q1mIHc4akRjaorQ/pub World as It Is. Chris Hedges]
* [http://docs.google.com/View?id=dg2jzdft_164k4pcsqft World Systems Analysis: An Introduction. Immanuel Wallerstein]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/129kBPGbT36KEAXxZvYhloHAs9xl6MwgqU0ZlqqK2YnU/pub Trouble in Paradise. Slavoj Žižek]
 
==Basic Income / Basic Assets / Basic Resources==
* Utopia for Realists. Rutger Bregman
* Give People Money. Annie Lowrey
 
==Heterodox Economics==
* Doughnut Economics. Kate Raworth
* Prosperity Without Growth. Tim Jackson
* Debt: The First 5000 Years. David Graeber
* [http://docs.google.com/View?id=dg2jzdft_236cskmncd6 Lewis Hyde. The Gift]
* The Enigma of Capital. David Harvey
* [http://docs.google.com/View?id=dg2jzdft_346cv9phjhm Carlota Perez. Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1Sabxn8sE-lcYi1Mzz6BmIM4Of3pxXXaVkoUon6-7pIc Raj Patel. The Value of Nothing]
* [http://docs.google.com/View?id=dg2jzdft_119gcjqnmgx Robert Theobald. The Guaranteed Income]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1f7oLuMwoiShggdu1sUK4Y29ovqdxePE3loq5BRDPas8 Robert Freedman. Marx on Economics]
 
==Finance==
* A FINANCIAL HISTORY of the UNITED STATES. 3 Vols. Jerry W. Markham
* All the Presidents' Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power. Nomi Prins
* How to Make a Million Dollars an Hour. Les Leopold
* All the Devils are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis. Bethany McLean. Joe Nocera.
* Makers and Takers. Rana Foroohar
* The Shifts and the Shocks. Martin Wolf
* Lords of Finance: The Bankers who Broke the World. Liaquat Ahamed
 
==Philosophy==
* Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left. Ben Burgis
* 50 Philosophy Classics: Thinking, Being, Acting, Seeing. Tom Butler-Bowdon
 
==Discrimination==
* Wretched of the Earth. Frantz Fanon
* Bitch Doctrine: Essays for Dissenting Adults. Laurie Penny
* So You Want to Talk About Race. Ijeoma Oluo
* Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race. Reni Eddo-Lodge
* The Myth of Male Power. Warren Farrell
* Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story. Angela Saini
 
==Generational==
* The Coddling of the American Mind. Haidt, Jonathan; Lukianoff, Greg.
* Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials. Harris Malcolm
 
==Histories==
* An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
* American Connections. The Founding Fathers. Networked. James Burke
* Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow. Yuval Noah Harari
* Better Angels of Our Nature. Steven Pinker
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Civilization The Story of Civilization. Eleven Volumes. Will & Ariel Durant]
**[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r8u6PU7mXHRmmywuU4zBsSVGwYKu1eLpXnimSE8uZ3Y/pub Our Oriental Heritage]
* Why the West Rules—For Now. Ian Morris
* Empire: Rise and Demise of the British World Order and Lessons for Global Power. Niall Ferguson
* A History of Modern Europe. Albert S. Lindemann
* Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism. Peter Marshall
* A Secret History of the World. Jonathan Black
* Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune. Kristin Ross
* The Robber Barons. Mathew Josephson
* [https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1PTa93vkQwCMdS0ym595S0Xr6OuCSAfAWeIP7VZnqcrc Paul Lafargue. Evolution of Property]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1FyUbkzCDEGRllQoPgtqVm6OfP2Ir43yRzL76pAoYHKE David Petegorsky. Left-wing Democracy in the English Civil War: Gerrard Winstanley and the Digger Movement]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1wEb859Kk5XqRA2c91uFY8yrbXrMQW_9cndnMGKnZSuM Martin Cohen. Political Philosophy: From Plato to Mao]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1oLVRjnJO8IyGtVDfhXtAoO6GIA2ZLhyaFG94uhxZ6nE Anthony Hall. Earth into Property]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1eBAAbkbsd8d1ma72Me46vkEi2nL8-hQ3q76YFOpvfeY Noam Chomsky. Occupy]
 
==Automation==
* AI Superpowers. Kai-Fu Lee
* Economic Singularity. Calum Chace
* Cybernetic Revolutionaries. Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile. Eden Medina
* Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car—And How It Will Reshape Our World. Lawrence D. Burns
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bgD69RpHe2DzRFj5jYtciD0L1TIX6v3V7sVktsM0RR0/edit?usp=sharing The Glass Cage. Nicholas Carr]
* The Second Machine Age. Erik Brynjolfsson. Andrew McAfee
* The Internet Is Not the Answer. Andrew Keen
* Rise of the Machines. Martin Ford
* Androids and Intelligent Networks in Early Modern Literature and Culture: Artificial Slaves
 
==Innovation==
* Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything. Kelly Weinersmith. Zach Weinersmith
* How to Invent Everything. Ryan North
* Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World. Mark Miodownik
* Coders. Clive Thompson
* Economic Singularity. Calum Chase
* Fab: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop-from Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication. Neil Gershenfeld
* [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/openmanufacturing/0o1ovwviJP8 Design. Paul Clark & Julian Freeman]
* Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves. George Church
* Telomerase Revolution. Michael Fossel
* Made in the USA: The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing. Vaclav Smil
* Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization. Vaclav Smil
* The Master Algorithm. Pedro Domingos
* How We Got to Now. Steven Johnson
* The Quest for AI. Nils J. Nilsson
* [http://docs.google.com/View?id=dg2jzdft_188gkbrgfdm Marvin Minsky. Emotion Machine]
**[[CSAIL. Marvin Minsky. Emotion Machine]]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=15qqHUjrDvuIeV2XpM0O3V9lIqpi4OPrD1MxzxrYnnjM Steven Johnson. Where Good Ideas Come From]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1ixdl_yavGsG_TJ2hLsSxAII46VHkteEQXF6htxEgcy0 Atul Gawande. The Checklist Manifesto]
 
==Science==
* Beyond Biocentrism. Robert Lanza
* The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life. 2nd Ed. Richard Dawkins. Yan Wong
* Pale Blue Dot. Carl Sagan
 
==Ecocide==
* The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future. David Wallace-Wells
* Merchants of Doubt. Erik M. Conway. Naomi Oreskes
* Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science. Carey Gillam
 
==Inspiration==
* Jazz Guide: 1001 Best Albums. Brian Morton. Richard Cook.
* [http://docs.google.com/View?id=dg2jzdft_88ccpwjxz9 Alan Watts. In My Own Way]
 
==Health==
*Autoimmune Solution. Amy Myers
*The End of Diabetes. Joel Fuhrman
*Grain Brain. David Perlmutter
 
==Permaculture & Homesteading==
* The Resilient Farm and Homestead: An Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Approach. Ben Falk
* The Woodland Homestead. Brett McLeod. Philip Ackerman-Leist
 
==Survive==
* Bushcraft 101. Dave Canterbury
* The Bushcraft Field Guide to Trapping, Gathering, and Cooking in the Wild. Dave Canterbury
* Advanced Bushcraft. Dave Canterbury
 
==Sci-Fi==
* This Is How You Lose the Time War. El-Mohtar Amal. Gladstone Max
 
==Reading Lists (Mostly)==
*[https://www.shareable.net/blog/20-social-change-books-to-read-in-the-new-year 20 Social Change Books to Read in the New Year (2019)]
*[https://github.com/pdfernhout/High-Performance-Organizations-Reading-List Organizations by Paul Fernhout]
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_inventors Notable Inventors (Wikipedian List)]
*[https://docs.google.com/document/d/14CLhIOeUI1MZpGDZB7mZ2Q6Ap0zqsLP0bIllZtf5Ld8/pub Words I Like]
*[http://www.septivium.com/b/2009/05/07/mefi/ List of Introductory Texts]
*[https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/11/best-non-fiction-books-2018.html Best non-fiction books of 2018 by Tyler Cowen]
*[https://iainews.iai.tv/articles/70-philosophy-books-everyone-should-read-auid-1168?_ga=2.87904669.44341995.1542243365-2061036799.1540493375 70 philosophy books]
*[http://www.openculture.com/2014/10/the-430-books-in-marilyn-monroes-library.html Open Culture. Marilyn Monroe's Library. With great links to other book lists.]
*[https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603172/best-books-of-2016/ Technology Review Best Books of 2016]
*[http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/2945-emerging-futures-a-bookshelf?discount_code=endofyear2016 Verso Press. Emerging Futures: A Bookshelf]
*[http://www.shareable.net/blog/shareable%E2%80%99s-top-21-new-books-for-summer-0 Shareable's Top 21 New Books for Summer 2016]
*[http://robertdavidsteele.com/publications/books-chapters-reviews/book-reviews/ Non-Fiction Book Lists] by Intelligence Expert and Radical Open Source Advocate, [[Robert Steele]]
*[http://qz.com/602956/these-are-the-books-students-at-the-top-us-colleges-are-required-to-read/ Required Reading by Top US Universities. Source: Open Syllabus Project]
*[http://mashable.com/2016/01/11/david-bowie-top-favorite-100-books/#bFNF0YW3Caq7 David Bowie's top 100]
*[https://www.foreignaffairs.com/anthologies/2015-12-14/best-books-2015 CFR Foreign Affairs 2015]
*[http://uk.businessinsider.com/warren-buffett-favorite-books-2015-10?utm_content=buffer6a2e6&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer?r=US&IR=T Warren Buffett's Favorite Books]
*[http://blog.invisionapp.com/reading-list-for-designers/ For Designers]
*[https://royalsociety.org/awards/science-books/ For Science]
 
==Timelines==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_timelines List of Timelines. Wikipedia]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RZQUBAlf75aJaEro4jqnO0slOAphd0Qxjomdez8VmAk/pub Sound Synthesis]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ucCsi6vDfnU9k3N6h7UQrLfV9r4jbbWrpdA5C3CmeVw/pub From Prehistory to Plato]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1_5pgvIOpTS_L5X6-au6p_kzKsz4mxM2Hl_eevklbkxY Anti-Capitalist Dictionary: People]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1yBlQcDDVtDEJ_R_gOHj7rYijfEXUE3kD5VKRWeMubpk How The Web Was Born]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1f7uKVhclVAtqFcfuMIbI_DHJGxo_A9V5jCXPKVW3jmA London. A Biography.]
 
==Reference Shelf==
* The Dictionary of Alternatives: Utopianism and Organization. Martin Parker, Valerie Fournier, Patrick Reedy
* Design School Wisdom. Brooke Johnson
* Dictionary of Latin Phrases. Jon R. Stone
* Engineers Databook. 4th Edition. Clifford Matthews
* Architect’s Pocket Book. 4th Edition. Charlotte Baden-Powell
* Programming Robots with ROS. 1st Edition. Morgan Quigley. Brian Gerkey. William D. Smart
 
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=Newsletters (E-mail!)=
*[https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/ The Download]. Tech News. MIT Tech Review
*[https://theprepared.org/ The Prepared] Manufacturing News.
*[http://www.exponentialview.co/ Exponential View]. Techish
*[https://www.ben-evans.com/newsletter/ Benedict's Newsletter]. Techish
 
=Podcasts=
*[https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/play/b09jvfc4 James Burke on The End of Scarcity]
*[https://mindtribe.com/2018/11/12-great-podcasts-for-engineers/?mc_cid=eec652add0&mc_eid=a3619caf0d 12 Great Podcasts for Engineers]
*[https://historyofphilosophy.net/all-episodes History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps]
 
=Documentaries=
==Alternative Living==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bs24nK5er8 The Anarchist Commune in the Rainforest: Poole’s Land (2018)]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iUIv-CsqY0 Living without Money | Eco Village Kew Bridge, London - UK (2009?)]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhvZgbMCKNE&t=255s Grasp the Nettle (2013) Kew Ecovillage and Democracy Village]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=38&v=-2WMJscG_E8 Off the Grid Documentary (2016)]
==The Rest==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3B5qt6gsxY The Shock Doctrine Documentary by Naomi Klein (2009)]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS_c2qqA-6Y Hypernormalization by Adam Curtis (2016)]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5JT3rPfGAw Class Divide - New York City Poor and Rich Children and Their Families (2016)]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjBmq4PAGYY PBS Frontline Two American Families (2013)]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAKyi3SYC_I PBS NPR - Poverty in America Documentary (2017)]
 
=Toward Post-Scarcity: Free & Open Life Systems=
Help people help themselves. Why buy when you can make it for less or free? Please email me suggestions!
 
==Platforms & Interactive Models==
Seeking open fabrication plans to make almost anything. Platforms are needed to accelerate material based innovation.
* Instuctables
* Wikifactory
* Wevolver
* TinkerCad? (And the greater AutoCAD project)
 
==Planning & Incubation==
*[http://roc21.net/ ROC: Refugee Open Cities]
*[http://www.regenvillages.com/ RegenVillages]
*[https://www.wevolver.com/about/ Wevolver. Open Hardware Incubator]
*[http://thingtracker.net/ Thingtracker: Sharing designs and projects in the maker community.]
*[http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/100-makers-eco-hack-future-prototypes-fossil-free-zero-waste-society.html?utm_content=buffereb71b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer POC21: Over 100 "makers" develop 12 off-grid technologies]
*[http://www.envienta.com/ Envienta Open Source Ecology]
*[http://www.qetema.org/en/ Qetema Smart City]
 
==Common Stores==
*Freeshops
*Tool Librarys
 
==""Social" Enterprise"==
*[http://www.greenpathfood.com/ GreenPath Food: Helping smallholders sell internationally]
*[http://www.protoprint.in/ Protoprint: Recycled plastic into filament for 3D printing]
 
==Interstellar Colonization==
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot Breakthrough Starshot]
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=Nathan's Non-Fiction Writings=
==Articles at Medium==
*[https://medium.com/@nwcrav/why-dont-machines-do-the-work-a27a0c3ac052 Why Don't Machines Do the Work?]
*[https://medium.com/@nwcrav/us-to-advance-european-alliance-ca607d0d7a07#.5pgzf2r02 United States to Empower Europe]
*[https://medium.com/@nwcrav/what-do-we-need-from-technology-ourselves-2563135640ac What Do We Need From Technology & Ourselves]
*[https://medium.com/@nwcrav/the-telerobotic-fulcrum-5f73da9d291f The Telerobotic Fulcrum]
 
==Benevolent Technocracy==
*[https://docs.google.com/document/d/113XgA345Df5K3mbd2zwGSAxAwd3FoP9VVXJk6VLOXgs/edit?usp=sharing Public Resource Mechanics]
==Political Economy==
*[https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1zG2I4k0NN9bxA7rH-2ONtR2QiH9KjPb7DfbMcM3VwKA The Sixth Revolution?]
*[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/openmanufacturing/YUITZBwhWgs An Urban Singularity: The Combining of Global Cities as a Unitarian Architectural Project]
*[[A Universal Commons Code of Ethics]]
*[[Hard Takeoff]]
*[[Free Markets and Free Use Commons]]
**[[Financial commons]]
*[[Effortless Economy]]
*[[Mutually Assured Production]]
 
==Technology==
*[[Public Resource Network]]
*[[Automated Distribution Systems]]
*[[Global Localization and Manipulation Engine]]
*[[Open Manufacturing]]
*[[The Holistic Problem of Manufacturing]]
*[http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Universal_Grid_Computing Universal Grid Computing]
*[http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ATsf-IaJ1pQxZGcyanpkZnRfMzI3cHh3NW1oZnY&hl=en General Manufacturing Robotics]
 
==Business==
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gKk8KewNjpDX5euv5gxLq_wLO7-fKvrnlAziNEOgabw/pub The Supremist Corporation Manifesto]
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=Interviews=
==Text==
*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/nov/09/occupy-london-library Occupy London's library provides shelf help]
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=Music Artists I Like=
Tim Hecker, Field Rotation, Deru, Carbon Based Lifeforms, Andy Stott, Tool, Pentangle, John Luc-Ponty, DJ Sasha, Alice in Chains, Slowdive, Arvo Pärt, Wagner, Vivaldi. Too many more to name.
==Tracks==
Chill Set 1<br>
*Murcof x Vanessa Wagner - Farewell, O World, O Earth
*Phil France - Circle
*Tim Hecker - Castrati Stack
*Kiasmos - Jarred
*Daso - Meine
*James Holden - Nothing (93 Returning Mix)
*Evigt Mörker - Högre
*Christian Löffler - Beirut
*Jan Blomqvist - The Space In Between (Ben Böhmer Extended Remix)
*Ben Böhmer - Promise You (Original Mix)
*Christian Löffler - Haul (feat. Mohna)
*Portico Quartet - A Luminous Beam
*Victoriya - For You
*Phelian - Lost
*Azaleh - Moonlight
*Röyksopp - Rising Urge (Lost Tapes)
*AURORA - Murder Song (5, 4, 3, 2, 1)
 
Chill Set 2<br>
*Nick Warren - Renaissance - The Masters Series (Part 19)
*Sasha - Scene Delete [Full Album]
*Sasha - Involv3r Continuous Mix
* Harrison BDP - Decompression
* Kettenkarussell - Maybe
* Kiasmos - Kiasmos (Full Album)
*Röyksopp - Rescue (Lost Tapes)
 
Jazz-Fusion Chill / Chill Hop <br>
*KOKOROKO - ABUSEY JUNCTION // WE OUT HERE
*Naxatras "Waves"
*Electronic System - Skylab - 1974
*Rubba - Way star
*Hiroshi Suzuki-Romance
*L'indécis - Soulful
Vaporwave<br>
*2814 - Birth of a New Day (Full Album)
Chillwave<br>
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emNgfuw8vlA&t=11s Night Drive - A Chillwave Mix]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwLTw8F8yN8 Waves - A Chillwave Mix]
Trance<br>
*Aurosonic & Frainbreeze and Katty Heath - All I Need (Progressive Mix)
*Saltwater (Original) by Chicane
*Ferry Corsten - Eternity
House<br>
*London Grammar - Hey Now [Arty remix]
*AuRa / CamelPhat - Panic Room (Club Mix)
Progressive House<br>
*Lumidelic - Through The Door (Original Mix)
*Maiga - Vincenzo (Original Mix)
*Leonety - Evening Embrace (Lumidelic Remix)
*Alex H - A New Beginning (Original Mix)
*Mark & Lukas - Eye Of The Storm (Original Mix)
*Alex H - Where Stars Collide (Original Mix)
Jazz Mix<br>
*Miles Davis - So What
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=User Contributions=
*[http://p2pfoundation.net/Special:Contributions/NathanC User Contributions]


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Latest revision as of 07:31, 27 September 2025

Nathan Wilson Cravens is a professor by conduct currently pursuing a position at Hull College, Yorkshire, England.