Remixing the Discourses of Sustainability- A Reading List
The Context
Al Gore, "An Inconvenient Truth"
Buckminster Fuller - Inexorable Evolution
Margulis, Sagan - What is Life?
Christopher Uhl, Developing Ecological Consciousness (excerpts)
Punk Sustainability - margulis, "Gaia is a Tough Bitch"]
VerNadksy - The Emergence of the Noosphere
Merlin Donald, myth of the Isolated Mind
James Jay Kay and Eric Schneider Life as the Tendency Toward the IncreasedDissipation of Information
Gregory Bateson - Mind and Nature (excerpts)
The Practice
Center for Sustainability Instruction Manual
GrowOnlineGuide to Sustainability Here!
Sustainable Sounds and Remixes
Ubuntu! - Open Source Software for your old or new computer. Jump into the code commons!
Visualizing Complexity - Article in Seed magazine about visualizing complex systems - with pretty pictures!
Build Windchimes for Sustainable Music
The Future
Octavia Butler - Dawn
William S. Burroughs, The Ghost of Chance
Ethernet connections transmit about as much information per second as the human retina does the visual cortex.
Chris King
The Future of Life, E. O. Wilson - "A civilization able to envision God and to embark on the colonization of space will surely find the way to save the integrity of this planet and the magnificent life it harbors." ( Excerpts)
Julian Huxley and Sustainable Transhumanism
Timothy and Joanna Leary, Neurologic
Biometric spoofing is also inching towards reality (or some semblance of reality). Think of Sneakers and using recorded conversation to slip past voice-recognition security, or Mission Impossible II/Minority Report/other Tom Cruise films and the retinal+facial transformations and replacements used to confound biometric security & advertisements.
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