Recs if you like Pilgrim at Tinker Creek...

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*.

Books recommended by musician Lucy Dacus, a solo artist and member of the band boygenius. Pulled from her goodreads list.

reciprocity, understanding, earth wisdom

One of my favourite niche genres is when memoirs are mixed with science, (or the other way around!— books about science that incorporate parts of the author’s life. The science also tends to be more accessible than in typical academic writing. So let’s read some books about people and their favourite science! P.S. please feel free to suggest more titles to add!

Ecological philosophy for when life falls apart.

Humans share 25% of our DNA with trees and I share 100% of my affections with these books that feature forests, trees, and wild landscapes.

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🌲🌲🌲 See you in the forest ✌️🌲🌲🌲

These books encourage new ways of thinking, help you see the world differently, and offer possibility.

eco-philosophy, ecology, capitalism and how it relates to climate, etc etc with some fiction thrown in there to spice things up.

Books that were featured on an episode of Backlisted.

If you have read Bill Bryson A Short History of Nearly Everything and/or are craving an existential crisis, these books should do the trick (so I’m told).

Forever mourning the loss of Jeanne Villepreux-Power's journals.

The canon 19th and 20th century works of naturalist nonfiction (with some mystical/metaphysical work as well because the naturalist-to-poet pipeline is real and irresistible)

** work in progress!

Books that take place in Appalachia