Readings for today:
- Lewis Mumford, "Authoritarian and Democratic Technics."
- Carroll Pursell, "The Rise and Fall of the Appropriate Technology Movement in the United States, 1965-1985," Technology and Culture, Vol. 34, No. 3. (Jul., 1993), pp. 629-637.
- Jameson Wemore, "Amish Technology," in Technology and Society (MIT: 2009), pp. 297-318.
- Derrick Jensen, "Premises," in Endgame, Vol. II: Resistance (Seven Stories Press: 2006), pp. xi-xi.
- Langdon Winner, "Building the Better Mousetrap," in The Whale and the Reactor (University of Chicago Press: 1988), pp. 61-84.
- Ivan Illich, Energy and Equity
- Andrew Ross, "Hacking Away at the Counterculture," Postmodern Culture, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1990.
- Carol Stabile, "'A Garden Inclosed is My Sister': Ecofeminism and Eco-Valences," Cultural Studies, Vol. 8, No. 1 (1994): 56-73.
- Ron Eglash’s, "Introduction," Appropriating Technology.
- Lila Abu-Lughod, “Bedouins, Cassettes and Technologies of Public Culture,” Middle East Report, No. 159, (Jul-Aug, 1989), pp. 7-11 & 47.
- Steve Waksman, "California Noise: Tinkering with Hardcore and Heavy Metal in Southern California," Social Studies of Science, Vol. 34, No. 5 (October 2004): 675–702.
- Appropriating technology links (courtesy of Ron Eglash)
- Books by the Critical Art Ensemble (in their entirety....for free)
- Tactical Media resources via New York University
- Hactivist
- The History of Hacking (Infographic)
- Parasitic Media (by Nathan, on behalf of the Carbon Defense League)
