This blog is a begun at the behest of a lovely friend in Madison, in order to help me chronicle and put in order some ideas about forming a community intentionally.
To begin, I am going to list out a bibliography of influence and inspiration, as well as websites or just ideas that I associate with certain pivotal figures or movements. I am creature of dreams and words, so quite naturally books are most important to my journey.
Do you have any recommendations?
1. Authors/etc, that inspire Autonomism/Anti-imperialism
a. Latin American History
Eduardo Galeano "Chronicles of Fire" books two and three
John Reed “Mexico Insurgente”
John Mason Hart (Mexican Revolution 1910-193x and US imperialism leading up to it)
Gloria Anzaldua's “Borderlands/ La Frontera”
The EZLN (Ejercito Zapatista Liberacion Nacional) aka, the Zapatistas of Chiapas, Mx- so many sources of information ; indymedia, email lists, books, sites, etc,
b. General History
Noam Chomsky's 911; Manufacturing Consent;
Affluenza (by de Graaf, Naylor, Wann and Robin)
Derrick Jensen's Language older Than Words; A Culture of Make Believe; Walking on Water
Hakim Bey's TAZ and Immediatism
Autobiography of Malcolm X (with Alex Haley)
Charles C Mann's “1491”
Diamond's “Guns, Germs, and Steel”
David Korten's "When Corporations Rule the World" not a Fan of the Title, but a wonderful breakdown of economical institutions manipulation through IMF, Bretton Woods, Economic theory, NAFTA (c) 1999?
2. Farming/Gardening
John Jeavons' book
Joel Salatin- speeches, farm and (Recommend "You can Farm")
Toby Heminway's “Gaia's Garden”
Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird's “Secret life of Plants” and “Secrets of the Soil”
Allan Balliet's Farm www.freshandlocalcsa.com ,
Alejandra and Paco Caballero's farm www.proyectosanisidro.org,
Jonathan and Nina White's Bobolink Dairy www.cowsoutside.com best bread and cheese almost anywhere!
the Rhizome Collective
David Wolfe's “Tales from the Underground” = stories about Soil
"Avant Gardening" Ed. by Hakim Bey
3. Construction/Architecture
Lloyd Kahn's Shelter, Homework, and Builders of the Pacific Northwest
Evans, Smiley, and Smith's “Hand Sculpted House”
Christopher Alexander et al, 's “A Pattern Language”, the “Nature of Order” books (Expensive!)
John S. Taylor's “A Shelter Sketchbook/ aka Commonsense Architecture”
Kindra Welch
Sunray Kelley
Guelberth, Cedar Rose “The Natural Plaster Book”
William McDonough and Michael Braungart "Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way we make things"
Visiting the Cities of Barcelona (Catalunya), Venice (It), Verona (It), Split , Dubrovnik, Hvar, Korcula (Croatia), Fez, Chefchaoen (Morocco),
the - deatech cob email-list
City Repair http://www.cityrepair.org/wiki.php/about [Fits kinda everywhere, an Amazing Group! ]
http://www.dignityvillage.org/content/
Chipp and Clara Boggs' " A Mountain Home(stead)" An extremely powerful place!
http://directory.ic.org/5962/Mountain_Homestead
http://www.attrainternships.ncat.org/internDetail2.asp?id=10
4. Cooking/ Food Preparation/Preservation/Traditional Diets
Sally Fallon's Nourishing Traditions
Sandor Katz's Wild Fermentation
Jessica Prentice's Full Moon Feast
Stephen H. Buhner's Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers
Jerry Brunetti's Lectures/ Video
Charlie Papazian "The Complete Joy of Homebrewing"
The gardener's & Farmer's of Terre Vivante "Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning" Foreward by Eliot Coleman
Slow Food International Organization www.slowfood.it
5. DIY (Do it Yourself); Homesteading and Early Influences
Gilbert's “Last American Man” Often inspiring and a wonderful meditation on self vs. others'-Education
William Copperthwaite's “A Handmade Life” Amazing and beautiful notebook/autobioraphy
Eric Sloane's “A Museum of Early American Tools” ; “A Reverence for Wood”
6. DIY Early Influences in General
William “Upski” Wimsatt's “No More Prisons” and “Bomb the Suburbs” (Early Influence)
Krakauer's “Into the Wild”
Marlo Morgan “Mutant Message Down Under” (Yes, a controversial book, yet provocative),
Griel Marcus' “Lipstick Traces” (esp. situationist critique on economy and everyday life)
Raoul Vaneigem 's “Revolution of Everyday Life”
John Cage's “Silence” (stories of Music, Zen, and Mushroom ketchup)
Tao Te Ching Laozi
Evasion published by crimethinc
John Zerzan's "Future Primitive" ; "Running on Emptiness"
Herman Hesse's Siddhartha
Surplus (a movie; pretty wonderful)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6265290247873039570&hl=en
7. Community/Relationships/Education
Jean Liedloff's "Continuum Concept"
Dale Carnegie (no relation) "How to Make Friends and Influence People" (c) 1936
bell hooks "All About Love"
Marge Piercy "Woman on the edge of Time" 1977
Aldous Huxley "Brave New World" 1936
Soma-Therapy - An Anarchist Therapy Movie by Nick Cooper (amazing fellow from Houston)
http://www.nickcooper.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatherapy
Great Article on Soma-history http://www.anarchymag.org/node/46
http://www.somaterapia.com.br/eng/soma.jsp
IC's mostly from heresay and websites:
The Farm Summertown, TN (IC)
Earthaven Asheville, NC (IC)
Emerald Earth Mendicino, CA (IC)
Ithaca Co-op Ithaca, NY (Housing Co-op)
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Under heading of History: Zinn's A People's History of the United States (U.S. history from the perspective of minority groups including the proletariats). Sub-heading of Education: I'm reading John Taylor Gatto's "A Different Kind of Teacher"... history of corporatizing public education and rendering the profession of teaching as irrelevant.. encourages subversion of public education curriculum to inspire children not to just become future employees of Walmart.
It's no surprise, but I have to recommend both volumes of Deleuze and Guattari's Capitalism and Schizophrenia to begin to think about architecture as a product of desire, rather than lack. I think if these books are accepted into the proposed canon, their inclusion might spontaneously rearrange your list into a tangled mess of intersected spider webs and the categories might wash away with the tide.
Deleuze's The Fold
Thomas Hirschorn's Cavemanman should be included as the library's first artwork.
How about all the instructional videos on youtube for making papercrete?
hm hm! I love you guys! Rebecca, I'm so glad you're reading Gatto! I've been hearing good things about his stuff for some time. What kind of subversion is he talking about?
Eric, Why-- "rather than a lack of desire"?
subversion in the context of public education would be empowering children in those "prisons" with utility and useful skills. (example, how to build a house at "The Shelter Institute" in Bath, Maine) in essence, compulsory education indoctrinates children to see only abstraction as a higher calling as opposed to say growing your own vegetable garden or repairing a vehicle.
one example of Gatto's own classroom is breaking school policy to get students out of the classroom and in to the community one day a week for experiential service learning (encouraging truancy!). and he begins class by talking about the fact that the students are forced to be there. hopefully, this answers the question.
!!! yes!
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