natehn~

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) - also: Bitter Lake
• The Social Dilemma (2020, 1h 35m - skip the dramatizations!)
• Do Not Resist

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:

• adrienne maree brown

Donate:

• American Indian Community House
• Black Lives Matter
• Movement Voter Project
• RIP Medical Debt

Technology

Read:

• Technology is Stupid, by by Marek Tuszynski, Tactical Tech (2020)

Learn

• Tech Learning Collective
• Low Tech Magazine (see also: Solar Protocol and homebrewserver.club)

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:

• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• Signal
• Internet Archive
• Wikimedia Foundation

Artmaking

Communities

• Ampled
• scanlines
• lines

Tools:

• ORCA (learn)
• Sonobus
• Airwindows

Follow:

• Hainbach
• Mortar
• beehype
• W.A.G.E.
• Solar Power for Artists

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

Documentary

• The Art of the Steal (2009)
• Best of Enemies: Buckley vs. Vidal
• Cave of Forgotten Dreams
• Citizenfour
• Exit Through the Gift Shop
• Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief
• The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst
• Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World
• Searching for Sugar Man
• Waste Land

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1. For the record, there is no unspoken expectation that anyone listed link back to this site. ↩︎