Recs if you like The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity...
Are You Sure You Know What Anarchy is?
When you think of Anarchy, you may think of chaos, lawlessness, or just a white dude in a ski-mask tossing molotov cocktails. But that’s not what anarchy is. That’s the propaganda. Anarchy is a political philosophy based in the abolition of the state, in horizontal rather than hierarchical power, in mutual aid, and networks of care. When I learned how much I didn’t know about anarchy it blew my mind. Anarchists have been at the core of so much of modern history, and I want to share it with you.
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!
Feed the zombies: Anti-Brainrot Reads
Don't let the poor zombies starve, feed your brain, make it plump and ripe with knowledge and critical thinking skills. It might also be useful if the zombies never come, who knows. You better be ready.
the first selfie was a hand on the cave wall
under construction // on prehistorical humans & their companions, all the history between them and you now reaching back with your hands; recognizing the self through the other, and the inversion of anthropology; the construction (& deconstruction) of prehistory itself & the invention of the human.
freedom dreaming
books i’ve read or want to read on community organizing, liberation and building a better world
anthropology reads
general anthropology books! i haven’t read a good chunk of these, but they’ve been recommended for the list!!
What Makes Us Human? 𐦂𖨆𐀪𖠋
Culture, biology, psychology, history. What makes us HUMAN?
Understanding modern life
Early Civilization Non-Fiction
Books for History Majors
way way way way way back
natural history nonfiction about Earth's younger epochs
World History
A lot of books on here have been recommended from @kistreadsbooks on Tiktok! As he describes it, "history books to educate yourself on different eras and topics". Also adding books from @editorsarahadir on IG
leftism
marxism, anarchism, radical left etc.
Intro to Anthropology (WIP)
Non-fiction books that made/make me want to dive more into anthropology, sociology, and history
A Rebel Yawp Before the Storm Learned
looking back to move forward
an incomplete list of history that intrigues me - getting historical - learning about the past - random, radical history - critical perspectives - so-called peculiar histories - books related to analyzing history
please comment suggestions, this is a growing exploration :)
Optimistic Non Fiction
Sprinkle a little hope on your world view. This list is filled with non fiction books that emanate positivity and will brighten your beliefs. Doom and gloom dominate our media; that serves a good purpose, which is to warn us all, but I ask you this: after the warning, what's next? Here you'll find books that will make you believe that the Earth and its residents are worth saving, and maybe we are not in a hellscape after all. Life is looking UP! The glass is half full!
Anthropology 📚
Books I want to read to keep the way I see the world anthropological because anthropology is everything and everywhere.
Books that make history fun (new title incoming)
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