Library

Over the course of the gathering, we’ve realised how important it is to share existing resources and knowledge when building the futures we want to see. This is why we have created a library – a living document that can be accessed through the following topic areas:

hvale vale recommends:
A guide to circular economy.
↗ https://www.apc.org/en/publications/circular-guide
#climatejustice
R. Buse Çetin recommends:
A Primer on AI from the Majority World.
↗ https://datasociety.net/library/a-primer-on-ai-in-from-the-majority-world/
#digitalrights
Cassie Robinson recommends:
This website is full of audio and written content that helps frame where we need to go from here.
↗ https://newconstellations.co/
#futures
Saadya Windauer recommends:
Klima Kolonialismus provides an index of contemporary examples of racialised and otherwise marginalised groups who are educating on green colonialism and intertwined issues. The goal is to broaden the horizon of the term ‘climate justice’ beyond its current scope in Eurocentric spaces.
↗ https://linktr.ee/Klima.Kolonialismus
#climatejustice, #decolonisation
Kit Braybrooke recommends:
Climate Care: Theory and Practice on a Natureculture Learning Site – a yearly festival curated at Floating University, Berlin.
↗ https://floating-berlin.org/programmes/climate-care/
#climatejustice
Zara Rahman recommends:
‘Fresh Banana Leaves’ is a fantastic book by Dr. Jessica Hernández, an Indigenous environmental scientist, which offers examples of Indigenous models of science that have worked for centuries.
↗ https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/675699/fresh-banana-leaves-by-jessica-hernandez/
#climatejustice, #resistance
Cassie Robinson recommends:
This blog sets out why resourcing collective imagination work is vital.
↗ https://cassierobinson.medium.com/change-happens-if-our-collective-imagination-changes-7a1c0475a578
#futures
Ramak Molavi recommends:
David Graeber & David Wengrow ‘The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity’. Rethinking humanity’s past is a good place to start rethinking our future.
↗ https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374157357/thedawnofeverything
#democracy, #resistance
hvale vale recommends:
Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch) is a collaborative community committed to building an open, inclusive and sustainable information society. Their forthcoming report explores how advocacy changes through – and because of – the pandemic.
↗ https://giswatch.org/
#futures
Cassie Robinson recommends:
This blog describes why and how funders need to focus their resources on the ‘third horizon’.
↗ https://cassierobinson.medium.com/funding-the-third-horizon-ef76a60be9bb
#futures
Lilli Iliev recommends:
Blog of the Wikimedia Free Knowledge Advocacy Group EU.
↗ https://wikimedia.brussels/
#access, #digitalrights
Soizic Pénicaud recommends:
An interactive website on ways to advance the role of community voice in the deployment of data systems in the public sector.
↗ https://www.datafiedsociety.org/
#designmethods, #resistance
hvale vale recommends:
One of the places where feministinternet advocate to continue building collective lineage and memory.
↗ https://feministinternet.org/
#feminism
R. Buse Çetin recommends:
Atlas of Anomalous AI – A collection of essays and provocations on AI.
↗ https://ignota.org/products/atlas-of-anomalous-ai
#digitalrights
Julia Kloiber recommends:
The Church of Black Feminist Thought. This group publishes a Black Feminist Study Atlas that I recommend reading.
↗ https://www.blackfeministstudy.org/
#decolonisation, #feminism, #futures, #resistance
Cassie Robinson recommends:
This blog shares some really inspiring work by Civic Square about the importance of ‘dream matter’ and how they are applying that in their work.
↗ https://medium.com/@civicsquare/the-matter-of-dreams-2020-2021-b63c4976014a
#futures
Laurence Meyer recommends:
Sylvia Wynter is accompanying me again this fall – for example, her essay ‘No Humans Involved’
↗ https://libcom.org/article/no-humans-involved-open-letter-my-colleagues
#decolonisation, #democracy, #resistance
Kit Braybrooke recommends:
‘Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene’ comprises 79 reports from scientists, humanists and artists on ‘feral’ ecologies, that is, ecologies that have been encouraged by human-built infrastructures, but which have developed and spread beyond human control. These infrastructural effects, Feral Atlas argues, are the Anthropocene.
↗ https://feralatlas.org/
#climatejustice
Anonymous recommends:
I recommend this deep-dive study on possible ways out of the alienation of content moderators.
↗ https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1461444819875990
#labourrights, #resistance
Anonymous recommends:
I recommend this deep-dive study on how content moderators fit into the neoliberal hierarchy of labor.
↗ https://journals.uwyo.edu/index.php/workingclassstudies/article/view/6191/5427
#labourrights, #resistance
Tatu Hey recommends:
This text so nicely explains how the current narrative on the climate crisis is not complete without talking about colonialism, capitalism and racism.
↗ https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3376-racial-capitalocene
#climatejustice, #decolonisation, #resistance
Mariana Valente recommends:
A really good report on the interface between privacy and feminism.
↗ https://www.privacyinternational.org/report/2457/report-oppression-liberation-reclaiming-right-privacy
#digitalrights, #feminism
Lilli Iliev recommends:
Knowledge Equity discussion series by Wikimedia Deutschland and Deutschlandfunk Kultur.
↗ https://www.wikimedia.de/projects/wissen-macht-gerechtigkeit/
#digitalrights, #futures
Fieke Jansen recommends:
‘How Nonviolence Protects the State’ by Peter Gelderloos
↗ https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-how-nonviolence-protects-the-state
#democracy, #resistance
Soizic Pénicaud recommends:
An amazing, must-read report on languages on the Internet and how to make the Internet more multilingual.
↗ https://internetlanguages.org/en/
#access
Chris Adams recommends:
This Twitter thread points to Dr Milena Buch’s paper (and a YouTube summary of it) on providing universal green services as a way of equitably distributing the revenue raised by any carbon taxes levied on high carbon emitting activity.
↗ https://mobile.twitter.com/mmbuchs/status/1463114001450156032
#access, #climatejustice
Saadya Windauer recommends:
Through a series of films, Formando Rutas show how lithium mining in Chile affects environments, communities and workers’ movements in the Atacama desert and Berlin. In advocating for socio-environmental justice, they offer educational materials, which everyone can use, to address the consequential damages.
↗ https://formandorutas.tech/
#climatejustice
Anonymous recommends:
I recommend the ‘Parable Series’, as the best books on care and resilience in spite of chains of global catastrophes, ever.
↗ https://www.octaviabutler.com/parableseries
#labourrights, #resistance
Zara Rahman recommends:
A People’s Guide to Tech produces accessible and useful resources that demystify different areas of technology.
↗ https://www.peoplesguidetotech.com/
#digitalrights
Soizic Pénicaud recommends:
A great resource outlining 17 principles for a feminist Internet and showing examples for each.
↗ https://feministinternet.org/en
#designmethods, #feminism, #resistance
Kit Braybrooke recommends:
Mesosanctuary: An ongoing participatory artwork which explores how ecological grief relates to ecological regeneration by approaching co-creation as a form of meditation. Meso comes from the Greek μέσος, or ‘middle’, and the project draws from DIWO (‘do it with others’) tactics and ethics of care to invite contributors into a space of quiet thinking, making and healing, where the personal meets the collective.
↗ https://mesosanctuary.com/
#climatejustice
Fieke Jansen recommends:
‘Pollution is Colonialism’ by Max Liboiron
↗ https://www.dukeupress.edu/pollution-is-colonialism
#climatejustice, #decolonisation
Naiara Bellio recommends:
Mozilla Investigation: YouTube Algorithm Recommends Videos that Violate the Platform’s Very Own Policies.
↗ https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/mozilla-investigation-youtube-algorithm-recommends-videos-that-violate-the-platforms-very-own-policies/
#digitalrights
Filip Dobranić recommends:
The book ‘Tools for Conviviality’ by Ivan Illich. This link is just an extract, you should read the full book (it’s not long). To quote the underwhelming first sentence of the Wiki article, this is a book ‘about the proper use of technology’.
↗ https://www.panarchy.org/illich/conviviality.html
#digitalrights, #futures
Ramak Molavi recommends:
Douglas Rushkoff’s podcasts and his books, ‘Team Human’ and ‘Survival of the Richest’, are precious resources for tapping into his thoughts.
↗ https://rushkoff.com/
#resistance
hvale vale recommends:
A place to deepen and connect the intersections of digital/internet rights, feminism, research and more.
↗ https://www.genderit.org
#digitalrights, #feminism
Chris Adams recommends:
This report by the Alliance for Affordable Internet outlines the links between sustainable energy and internet access, and how this helps address issues like climate resilience and dependence on fossil fuels.
↗ https://a4ai.org/research/filling-the-gap-between-energy-internet-access/
#access, #climatejustice
Chris Adams recommends:
This report from the Alliance for Affordable Internet talks about the ‘inclusivity dividend’ of increasing access to the internet for women. Policymakers have a $500 billion+ economic opportunity in front of them, so long as they just close the digital gender gap.
↗ https://a4ai.org/research/report/costs-of-exclusion-report/
#access, #feminism
Ramak Molavi recommends:
Evgeny Morozov for his thoughts on tech feudalism – always inspiring.
↗ https://evgenymorozov.com/
#digitalrights
Naiara Bellio recommends:
‘Contra el futuro. Resistencia ciudadana frente al feudalismo climático’ by Marta Peirano
↗ https://www.penguinlibros.com/es/ciencia-y-tecnologia/295831-libro-contra-el-futuro-9788418619212#
#digitalrights, #resistance