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Geek Mafia - Rick Dakan
Hackers. Geeks. Thieves. Urban Pirates. Scams. Cons. Technology. Freedom. Off The Grid. All this and more, rolled up into a rollicking 'crime' novel navigating the edges of capitalism, consumer society, and the techno world we inhabit today. A smart, savvy, politically engaged novel for the new millennia.
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Nowtopia: How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Vacant-lot Gardeners are Inventing the Future Today - Chris Carlsson
Outlaw bicycling, urban permaculture, biofuels, free software, and even the Burning Man festival are windows into a scarcely visible social transformation that is redefining politics as we know it. As capitalism continues to corral every square inch of the globe into its logic of money and markets, new practices are emerging through which people are taking back their time and technological know-how. In small...
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Behind The Blip: Essays On The Culture Of Software - Matthew Fuller
A far-reaching and strikingly original collection of essays on the "culture of software" by new-media critic Matthew Fuller. Behind the Blip looks at the many ways in which the ostensibly neutral user interfaces, search engines, "intelligent agents," and word processors that are now part of our everyday life are actively reshaping the way we look at and interact with the world.
"While most institut...
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DATA browser 03: Curating Immateriality: The Work Of The Curator In The Age Of Network Systems - Joasia Krysa (Editor)
This is the third book in the DATA Browser series of critical texts that explore issues at the intersection of culture and technology.
The site of curatorial production has been expanded to include the space of the Internet and the focus of curatorial attention has been extended from the object to processes to dynamic network systems. As a result, curatorial work has become more widely distributed between...
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Read Me!: ASCII Culture & The Revenge Of Knowledge
A compilation of writings and debates from the Nettime newsgroup and internet mailing list. This book documents the debates over emerging media technologies that are currently reshaping society. What are the liberatory potentials? Where are the points of political conflict and class struggle in this new culture? What are the pitfalls of new technology? Read Me! provides the beginnings of this discussi...
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Eating Fossil Fuels: Oil, Food And The Coming Crisis In Agriculture - Dale Allen Pfeiffer
The miracle of the Green Revolution was made possible by cheap fossil fuels to supply crops with artificial fertilizer, pesticides, and irrigation. Estimates of the net energy balance of agriculture in the US show that ten calories of hydrocarbon energy are required to produce one calorie of food. Such an imbalance cannot continue in a world of diminishing hydrocarbon resources. Eating Fossil Fuels ex...
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Serious Adverse Events: An Uncensored History Of AIDS - Celia Farber
Controversial AIDS reporter Celia Farber collects twenty years of investigative work on AIDS and asks important questions about the costs and results of the two-decade long "war on AIDS."
Here Farber conducts new interviews with controversial AIDS dissidents, including UC Berkeley's Peter Duesberg, UNAM's Harvey Bialy, and Nobelist Kary Mullis. Their views on HIV and cancer—rarely discussed in the m...
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Oil: A Concise Guide To The Most Important Product On Earth - Matthew Yeomans
Every day, the United States consumes more than 18 million barrels of oil, an amount equivalent to the daily usage of Europe and the states of the former Soviet Union combined. The majority of this oil goes into cars, trucks, and SUVs in the form of gasoline. Indeed, one barrel of oil out of every seven produced in the world is destined to fill the tanks of cars in America.
In Oil Matthew Yeomans explore...
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A People's History Of Science: Miners, Midwives, And "Low Mechanicks" - Clifford Conner
"A delightfully refreshing new look at the history of science. I know of nothing like it, because it approaches that history free of the usual elitist preconceptions, and shows, in an inspiring way, the role that ordinary people, working people, played in the development of science. He presents startling new historical data which should create some commotion in the halls of orthodoxy." [Howard Zinn]
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Biodiesel Power: The Passion, The People, And The Politics Of The New Renewable Fuel - Lyle Estill
Whether we are nearing the end of oil or merely nearing the end of inexpensive oil, it is becoming increasingly clear that we need to find alternative ways to meet our energy needs. Biodiesel is one such alternative -- and is one of the fastest growing sectors of the US economy.
Biodiesel in North America is in its infancy. As air quality deteriorates in major centers, governments are scrambling for ways ...
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