Recs if you like Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World...
The Big Bad Luddite List
ANTI: fascism, ai, nfts, Big Tech, billionaires, surveillance states, optimization, algorithms, bot farms, technofeudalism, enshittification, exploitation, extractionism, planned obsolescence PRO: organized labor, punk, analog, solidarity, free speech, friction, degrowth, experimentation, right to privacy, right to repair, diy, material process, mutual aid, ecological living, the human hand, the human mind
Looking for fiction? Check out The Big Bad Luddite Novel*.
But WAIT. There’s Hope. ✨NON-FICTION✨
Straight from the Solarpunk Manifesto, “We are solarpunks because the only other options are denial or despair.”
What if there’s more to our future? What if we were optimistic?
Below are the non-fiction books that have made it to O.E. Tearmann’s Open List of Positive and Hopeful Futures
Feel free to suggest any recs!
Imagining utopia that isn't just secretly dystopia
"It is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism"
But these books try anyway
Also see: Star Trek (TNG and DS9) but those aren't books
we are each others ropes 🌱
while the world tries to divide us, let's entangle roots and stories and hearts and build communities and connections that outlast the dark times. Together we can heal, together we can thrive. These books will make you feel less alone and help you grow real life connections 🤍
Sustainability Transformation
Books about new and ancient ideas to create sustainable change or something near to it...
