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.
See also
- TSMN topics tagged with Books.
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