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 (2017, 1h 12m)
• Q: Into the Storm (2021, six episodes)

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)

Listen:

• Day X from the New York Times

Follow:

• adrienne maree brown

Donate:

• Indigenous Environmental Network
• Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women USA
• NDN Collective
• 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

Follow:

• Hundred Rabbits, XXIIVV, and Rekka Bellum
• an artist’s guide to computation
• Low Tech Magazine (see also: Solar Protocol and homebrewserver.club)
• 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

Read:

• Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists, by Kay Larson
• Free Play: The Power of Improvisation in Life and the Arts, by Stephen Nachmanovitch
• Confronting Silence: Selected Writings, by Toru Takemitsu

Community:

• Ampled
• scanlines
• lines

Tools:

• ORCA (learn)
• Sonobus
• Airwindows

Follow:

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

Other Inspiring and Thoughtful Content

Poetry:

• Uncommon Prayer, by Kimberly Johnson

Novels:

• Parable of the Sower, by Octavia Butler (1993)
• The Dispossessed, by Ursula Le Guin
• The Malazan Book of the Fallen, by Steven Erikson and Ian Cameron Esslemont (1999-present)
• N.K. Jemesin’s Broken Earth series

Film:

• Intouchables
• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Short Film:

• A Table Is As Good As Nine Lives (2022)
• Others (2019)

Documentary:

• The Art of the Steal (2009)
• 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

Audio:

• Heavyweight
• The Icons Club

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