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Sparking A Worldwide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-petrol World - Kolya Abramsky (Editor)
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The world's energy system is on the verge of far reaching change, and its future is up for grabs.

A worldwide struggle over who controls the sector, and for what purposes, is intensifying. "Green capitalism" is the word of the hour, and we're being told that it's finally time to "save the planet" in o...
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Unsuspecting Souls: The Disappearance of the Human Being - Barry Sanders
During the nineteeth century, something vital went missing: the human being. In Unsuspecting Souls, Barry Sanders examines modern society's indifference to the individual. From the Industrial Revolution, where the disappearance of care for human beings begins slowly, to our own age, where societal events require less person-to-person interaction, Sanders laments that what makes us most human is slowly dying....
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Ethereal Shadows: Communications and Power in Contemporary Italy - Gianfranco Vitali, Marco Jacquemet, and Franco "Bifo" Berardi
Focusing on Italian "videocracy," Ethereal Shadows documents the emergence of the first Italian media mogul, Silvio Berlusconi, and his rises and falls from political power. It also explores Italian media activism through three case studies: a discussion of the first autonomous free radio station, Radio Alice (broadcasting in Bologna between 1977 and 1979); a review of Italian Internet activism focusi...
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Shoot an Iraqi: Art, Life and Resistance Under the Gun
Wafaa Bilal's childhood in Iraq was defined by the horrific rule of Saddam Hussein, two wars, a bloody uprising, and time spent interned in chaotic refugee camps in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Bilal eventually made it to the U.S. to become a professor and a successful artist, but when his brother was killed at a U.S. checkpoint in 2005, he decided to use his art to confront those in the comfort zone with the re...
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Geek Mafia: Black Hat Blues - Rick Dakan
What do you call 1000 hackers assembled into one hotel for the weekend? A menace to society? Trouble waiting to happen? They call it a computer security conference, or really, a Hacker Con. A place for hackers, security experts, penetration testers, and tech geeks of all stripes to gather and discuss the latest hacks, exploits, and gossip. For Paul, Chloe, and their Crew of con artist vigilantes, it's the pe...
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Behold Metatron, the Recording Angel - Sol Yurick
Behold Metatron is heavy stuff, relentlessly visionary, the material problem seen through a lens of advanced capitalism and electronic philosophy. Picture Wired Magazine crossed with Fortune Magazine but edited by William Blake. Metaphysics, economics, art and intellect of an high order, coalescing into an interpretation of an emerging electronic universe. Forget Al Gore, perhaps Mr. Yurick conceptual...
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Twilight of the Machines - John Zerzan
The mentor of the green anarchist and neo-primitive movements is back with his first book in six years, confronting civilization, mass society, and modernity and technoculture—both the history of its developing crisis and the possibilities for its human and humane solutions.


As John Zerzan writes, "These dire times may yet reveal invigorating new vistas of thought and action. When everything...
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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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Far Out: 101 Strange Tales From Science's Outer Edge - Mark Pilkington
When you learned about science in school, did you ever wonder about the experiments that didn't work out? The inventors who crashed and burned? The facts that turned out to be fiction? From the Aquatic Ape Hypothesis to Zero Point Energy, via the Hieronymous Machine and Phlogiston, Far Out tells the stories that are all too often ignored, lost, or simply forgotten by conventional science books. Coveri...
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