Recommended books

Books (more or less) connected to music (sound, noise) in context of digital autonomy.

Noise Uprising by Michael Denning

“A very well written materialist analysis of the spread of the first records and the impacts it had on culture and movement at the start of the 19th century.”

Freedom Dreams by Robin DG Kelley

Culture and revolution.

The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation by Cory Doctorow

Deep-dive into peculiarities of platform decay (enshitiffication) and solutions to it: change the laws and regulation to demand interoperability, and demonopolize tech sector (breakup Big Tech).

Show Your Work by Austin Kleon

An artist’s guide how to inform people about your work without promoting it. There’s some really good advice in there, like for example focusing on your domain-name, your webpage, and your mailing list.

The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer

Palmer goes into some psychological reasons (in non-scientific, but honest and personal way) why we are afraid to ask for help, for donations, for support from those who enjoy our work.

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Is there a curation element to this, or should people just add books they think are relevant?

One that we had a reading club for at FMP is Noise Uprising by Michael Denning. It’s a very well written materialist analysis of the spread of the first records and the impacts it had on culture and movement at the start of the 19th century.

If we’re talking culture and revolution I’d recommend Freedom Dreams by Robin DG Kelley.

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Good question. Following the Wikipedia approach, I suggest we encourage edits without having to ask first. If and when the people watching this page feel the need to curate it and organize it, they (you) can.

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