Getting started
Moritz
moritz at headstrong.de
Tue Jul 30 19:46:20 PDT 2013
On 31.07.2013 01:56, Max R.D. Parmer wrote:
> Have you read "Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet" yet?
> Helpful for getting a good chunk of the contemporary and historical context.
You might also like:
Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias
Peter Ludloff
http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/0262621517
What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the
Personal Computer Industry
John Markoff
http://www.amazon.com/What-Dormouse-Said-Counterculture-Personal/dp/0143036769
Some random reading list on the broader spectrum:
* Scott Adams: Dilbert
* Mitch Albom: Tuesdays with Morrie
* Saul Alinsky: Rules for Radicals
* Günther Andreas: Die molussische Katakombe (1933), Die
Antiquiertheit des Menschen
* Charles Babbage: On the Mental Division of Labour
* Jasper Becker: Hungry Ghosts
* Frederico Biancuzzi, Shane Warden: Masterminds of Programming (2009)
* Jorge Luís Borges: Any short story collection you want
* John Brunner: The Shockwave Rider (1975)
* Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita
* Anthony Burgess
* Vanevar Bush: "As We May Think"
* Italo Calvino: Invisible Cities, Cosmicomics, Marcovaldo
* E.R. Carmin: Das schwarze Reich (2002)
* C. J. Cherryh: Cyteen
* Arthur C. Clark: A Meeting With Medusa (1972)
* Anton Chekhov: "The Lady With the Little Dog"
* The Dark Mountain Project: Dark Mountain Volume 2 (2011)
* Guy Debord: Society of the Spectacle
* Frederick Douglass: Collected Autobiographies
* Umberto Eco: Foucault's Pendulum
* Warren Ellis: Transmetropolitan
* Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man
* Georgina Ferry: A Computer called LEO (2004)
* Jasper Fforde: Shades of Gray
* Illiad Frazer: User Friendly
* Neil Gaiman: Sandman
* Garner: A Dictionary of Modern English Usage
* Emma Goldman: Anarchism and Other Essays, My Disillusionment in Russia
* Gandhi: Autobiography
* Gene Sharp
* William Gibson
* Hackerbibel 1+2
* Robert Heinlein: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
* Douglas R. Hofstadter: Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
(1999)
* Andrew Hunt: The Pragmatic Programmer (1999)
* Orlando Figes: A People's Tragedy
* Sho Fumimura and Ryoichi Ikegami: Sanctuary
* Erich Jantsch: The self-organising Universe (1979)
* Robert Jungk
* David Kahn: "The Codebreakers"
* Paul Lafargue: Das Recht auf Faulheit. Widerlegung des Rechtes auf
Arbeit. (1883)
* Steven Levy: Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
* David Lewis: Counterfactuals (2001)
* Johnny Long: Stealing the Network (2009)
* Peter Ludlow: Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias (2001)
* Ernest Mandell
* John Markoff: What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture
Shaped the Personal Computer Industry (2006)
* Werner Mayer-Eppler: Grundlagen und Anwendungen der
Informationstheorie (1959)
* Mandela: The Long Walk To Freedom (Autobiography)
* Mondo 2000 - A User's Guide to the New Edge (1992)
* [[http://monochrom.at/mono/|monochrom print]]
* Jenna Moran: Hitherby Dragons (online only; a book is coming out soon)
* Grant Morrison: The Invisibles
* Günter Myrell: Daten-Schatten
* Theodor Nelson: Computer Lib/Dream Machines (1974)
* Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata: Death Note
* Manfred Osten: Das geraubte Gedächtnis (2004)
* P.M.: Bolo Bolo (1983), Subcoma (2000)
* [[http://www.gruenekraft.com/|Werner Pieper and the Grüne Kraft]]
* Milorad Pavić: Dictionary of the Khazars
* Victor Pelevin: The Yellow Arrow, The Helmet of Horror, anything you
can find in English (or Russian, if you can read that)
* Tim Powers: Last Call
* Thomas Pynchon: The Crying of Lot 49
* Bertrand Russell: In Praise of Idleness (1935)
* Mark Russinovich: Windows Internals, Zero Day
* Melissa Scott: Trouble and her Friends (or anything else, really)
* Vikram Seth: The Golden Gate
* Carla Speed McNeil: Finder
* Oswald Spengler: Untergang des Abendlandes
* Karl Steinbruch: Falsch programmiert. Über das Versagen unserer
Gesellschaft... (1968)
* Neal Stephenson
* Daniel Suarez: Daemon, Freedom
* Andrew S. Tanenbaum
* Thoreau: Civil Disobedience
* Tad Tuleja: The Catalog of Lost Books
* Sherry Turkle: The Second Self
* Vernor Vinge: "True Names", "A Deepness in the Sky", "A Fire Upon
the Deep"
* Norbert Wiener: Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the
Animal and the Machine (1948)
* Theodore J. Kaczynski
* David Foster Wallace: Infinite Jest
* Bill Watterson: Calvin & Hobbes
* Donald Westlake: Under an English Heaven
* Robert Anton Wilson: The Illuminatus
* Tom Wolfe: The Electronic Cool-Aid Acid Test (1968)
* Malaclypse The Younger: Principia Discordia: Or "How I Found
Goddess, and What I Did to Her When I Found Her" (1965-1991)
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