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* Uberworked and Underpaid: How Workers Are Disrupting the Digital Economy. Trebor Scholz
* Uberworked and Underpaid: How Workers Are Disrupting the Digital Economy. Trebor Scholz
* Remote: Office Not Required. David Heinemeier Hansson. Jason Fried
* 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==
==Social Justice & Progress==
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* The Conquest of Bread. Peter Kropotkin
* The Conquest of Bread. Peter Kropotkin
* Fully Automated Luxury Communism. Aaron Bastani
* Fully Automated Luxury Communism. Aaron Bastani
* Why Work? Arguments for the Leisure Society. David Graeber, Juliet Schor, ect.
* The Refusal of Work: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work. David Frayne
* Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work. Nick Srnicek
* Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work. Nick Srnicek
* The Desktop Regulatory State. Kevin Carson
* The Desktop Regulatory State. Kevin Carson
* Lost Connections. Johann Hari
* Lost Connections. Johann Hari
* The Soul of Man under Socialism. Oscar Wilde
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v4chyRmfZqlD5cXgCeAjwzx5-UBMwNtwohMPhElpj5k/pub PostCapitalism. Paul Mason]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v4chyRmfZqlD5cXgCeAjwzx5-UBMwNtwohMPhElpj5k/pub PostCapitalism. Paul Mason]
* Critical Path. Richard Buckminster Fuller
* Critical Path. Richard Buckminster Fuller
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* [https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1CuxjqrVYvMu-GcSkmFM8krXhbddxf8N2mJ5Qn-Vo2vA Envisioning Real Utopia. Erik Olin Wright]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1CuxjqrVYvMu-GcSkmFM8krXhbddxf8N2mJ5Qn-Vo2vA Envisioning Real Utopia. Erik Olin Wright]
* New Human Rights Movement. Peter Joseph
* New Human Rights Movement. Peter Joseph
* Utopia for Realists. Rutger Bregman


==Resistance, Rebellion, & Revolution==
==Resistance, Rebellion, & Revolution==

Revision as of 15:37, 16 August 2019

SCLCS. SGM.
Nathan Wilson Cravens
Latest Publication: The Emergency Consultant Will See You Now (June 28, 2019)

@nwcrav | Contact || Nathan's Music at Mixcloud & Soundcloud. Self-released album: Salvation. Always seeking music collaborations. || Former Occupy Librarian (London) || Founder 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 OSHWA and the open source hardware incubator, Wevolver. Finally, subscribe to The Prepared.

Recent non-fiction publications: Thoughts on Democratising (June 27, 2019) | Why Don't Machines Do the Work? | The Humanoid Machinist. . or, What is Art? | From Big to Small: Open Fabrication, Modular Production, & Programmable Matter | An Ode to Platform Cooperativism: The Quest for Greater Freedom | Introducing a Rescue Package for Refugees | For a foundation or context start with The Holistic Problem of Manufacturing

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/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

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

Alt-Business

  • Reinventing Organizations. Frederic Laloux
  • Big-box Swindle. Stacy Mitchell

Alternative & Grassroots Organization

  • 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
  • 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

Resistance, Rebellion, & Revolution

  • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds. Adrienne Maree Brown
  • 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
  • Revolutionary Suicide. Huey P. Newton

Peer Production / The Commons

U.S. Imperialism

Hegemony

Heterodox 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

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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Marvin Minsky. Emotion Machine
  • Steven Johnson. Where Good Ideas Come From
  • 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

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

Reading Lists (Mostly)

Timelines

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



Newsletters (E-mail!)

Podcasts

Documentaries

Alternative Living

The Rest

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

Common Stores

  • Freeshops
  • Tool Librarys

""Social" Enterprise"

Interstellar Colonization



Nathan's Non-Fiction Writings

Articles at Medium

Benevolent Technocracy

Political Economy

Technology

Business



Interviews

Text



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

  • 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

  • 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

  • KOKOROKO - ABUSEY JUNCTION // WE OUT HERE
  • Naxatras "Waves"
  • Electronic System - Skylab - 1974
  • Rubba - Way star
  • Hiroshi Suzuki-Romance
  • L'indécis - Soulful

Vaporwave

  • 2814 - Birth of a New Day (Full Album)

Chillwave

Trance

  • Aurosonic & Frainbreeze and Katty Heath - All I Need (Progressive Mix)
  • Saltwater (Original) by Chicane
  • Ferry Corsten - Eternity

House

  • London Grammar - Hey Now [Arty remix]
  • AuRa / CamelPhat - Panic Room (Club Mix)

Progressive House

  • 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

  • Miles Davis - So What



User Contributions