Welcome
This is my personal library. You can also think of it as a:
- blogroll1
- link/resource/reference list
- bibliography
- card catalog
The purpose is to share resources that I think are valuable with the rest of the world - no strings attached. It’s an alternative to corporate algorithms and a way of building our own online networks of information, complementing the XXIIVV webring, which you should also explore.
The content was first published on February 28, 2021, but will be updated on a regular basis. It is forever incomplete!
WTF is going on
Watch:
- 13th, by Ava DuVernay (2016, 1h 40m)
- “Shoshana Zuboff on surveillance capitalism” (2019, 50m)
- “The Thriving World, The Wilting World, & You,” by Anand Giridharadas (2015, 30m)
- Hypernormalisation, by Adam Curtis (2016, 2h 47m)
- The Social Dilemma (2020, 1h 35m - skip the dramatizations!)
Read:
- Citizen: An American Lyric, by Claudia Rankine (2014)
- Winners Take All, by Anand Giridharadas (2018)
- Shoshana Zuboff’s interview with The Guardian (2019)
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, by Shoshana Zuboff (2019)
- Basic Call to Consciousness (excerpts)
Follow:
Donate:
Technology
Read:
- Technology is Stupid, by by Marek Tuszynski, Tactical Tech (2020)
Follow:
- Hundred Rabbits, XXIIVV, and Rekka Bellum
- an artist’s guide to computation
- Stratechery (the weekly newsletter is free; I don’t always agree, but the coverage is enlightening)
Donate:
Artmaking
Communities
Tools:
Follow:
Fiction
- Parable of the Sower, by Octavia Butler (1993)
- The Malazan Book of the Fallen, by Steven Erikson and Ian Cameron Esslemont (1999-present)
- N.K. Jemesin’s Broken Earth series
Fun
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For the record, there is no unspoken expectation that anyone listed link back to this site. ↩︎