HackerBookShelf

This page started from the "Reading list for hackers" thread on the discuss mailing list.

The The Library Pattern mentions making bookshelves. This page is about filling them with interesting titles. You may also want to scan some books.

Check out Dead_Tree_Lovers' catalog of their massive hacker library (over 1000 titles!), that they also bring to EU events in physical form.

Technical / Infosec

https://hackerbookshelf.com/

Hacker theory and activism

Main page: Theory, also see HackingResearch.

1. McKenzie Wark - Hacker Manifesto
2. (various authors) - Technological Sovereignty (Vol I and II) (link, also translated to several languages)
3. Telekommunisten - The Telekommunist Manifesto
4. Gabriella Coleman's research on hacker culture
5. Sarah R. Davies - Hackerspaces: Making the Maker Movement (2017)

Proto-Hacker

1. Henry David Thoreau - Walden (1854)
2. Donna Harraway - A cyborg manifesto (1985)
3. Situationist International (1950-1970s), see great McKenzie Wark book
4. Yippies
5. Constant Nieuwenhuys - New Babylon (Situationst, anticapitalist, fully-automated, free cities)

Space, Astronomy, Technology

• ~/tinycore.lab library [el, en, de, fr, ru]: https://tinycorelab.noblogs.org/about/lab/inventory/library/

Novels / Science Fiction

first-person hackers

• Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash (1992)
• Daniel Suarez - Daemon (2006) & Freedom (2010)
• Cory Doctorow - Walkaway (2017)
  • Cory Doctorow - Party Discipline (2017) a walkaway story
• Spufford, Francis - Red Plenty (2010)
• anthology(various authors) - Stealing the Network: The Complete Series (2009)

no first-person hackers / don't mention hackers / unsure

1. Bruce Sterling - Maneki Neko
2. Kim Stanley Robinson - Mars Trilogy (90s)
3. Robert A. Heinlein - Stranger in the strange land (1961)
4. John Gribbin - In Search of Schrödinger's Cat (1984)
5. Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheeps? (1968)
6. David Mitchell - The Cloud Atlas (2004)
7. Hubert Selby Jr - The Willow Tree (1998)
8. Frank Schätzing - The Swarm (2004)

Un-Civilization

1. Daniel Quinn: Beyond Civilization, http://www.davidsheen.com/b/
2. Guy McPhearson http://guymcpherson.com/
3. Deric Janssen http://www.derrickjensen.org/
4. Naomi Oreskes: The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future,
5. Ursula K. LeGuin: The Dispossessed
6. Heather Marsh: Binding Chaos,
7. Fredy Perlman: "Against His-Story, Against Leviathan", http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/perlman-fredy/1977/revolutionary-leaders/index.htm the whole book, chapter by chapter
8. Karl Falkvinge, Swarmwise

Further Reading (more lists!)

• reading list from the "interference.io" conference
• Anarchist library
• hackademia group (meets at CCC events, humanities academia), subscribe via <mailto:hackademia-subscribe@lists.riseup.net>
• Gabriella Coleman's 5 books list about hacking

New & Unsorted

1. https://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/how-to-make-a-complete-map-of-every-thought-you-think.html
2. Bruce Sterling / Maneki Neko

Also see...

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