- Age of Extremes
The Short Twentieth Century 1914 - 1991
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
A overview of the history of the years 1914 - 1991.
- The AT Reader
Theory and Practice in Appropriate Technology
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
An introduction to appropriate technology, both as an explanation of the concerpt and extensive examples and applications.
- Bookchin, Murray
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
American libertarian socialist-anarchist, political and social philosopher, environmentalist, conservationist, atheist, speaker, and writer. (1921-2006).
- But It's Only a Tool!
The Politics of Technology and Education Reform
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
- Canada Health Infoway
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The Canadian Bar Association
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian Policy Research Networks (CPRN)
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The Canadian Space Agency
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Capital on CD-Rom, Cat Optional - CD-Rom Review
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1999
Karl Marx's Multimedia Capital, v.1. Cominsane Press, 1998. Distributed by Monthly Review Press, 1-800-670-9499. $20.
- Changing The Cogs
Activists and the Politics of Technology
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1979
What are the best ways to achieve beneficial change in society? Will widespread use of solar energy and other renewable energy sources bring about a good society? What technologies will be promoted by vested interests in government and big business?
- The City in History
Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1961
Beginning with an interpretation of the origin and nature of the city, Mumford follows the city's development from Egypt and Mesopotamia through Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages to the modern world.
- The Closing Circle
Man, Technology & the Environment
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
Commoner argues that economic life must be structured to conform to the principles of ecology, as opposed to the goal of unlimited growth that underpins capitalist economies.
- Commuto Inc.
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 8, Number 1 - Spring 1983 - Women and Men
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1983
- Connexions
Volume 8, Number 2 - Summer 1983 - Toward a New Economy
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1983
- Connexions
Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1984
- Connexions
Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1986
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1987
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1988
- Connexions Digest
Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1991
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1992
- Democracy's Oxygen
How Corporations Control the News
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
Winter shows that far from providing "democracy's oxygen," the news media legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informated, news organizations manufacture public consent for policies which favour the corporate elite.
- The Design of Everyday Things
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
A book about the problems of design and how good design can overcome the frustrations of everyday things.
- The Domination of Nature
Resource Type: Book
Leiss relates environmental concerns back to the fundamental problem of man's domination of his fellow man. In doing so, he argues for a reconsideration of the relationship between humanity and nature.
- Ecology as Politics
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1980
Socialism is no better than capitalism if it makes use of the same tools. The total domination of nature inevitably entails a domination of people by the techniques of domination.
- The Ecology of Freedom
The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
Bookchin's synthesis of ecology, anthropology and political theory traces conflicting legacies of hierarchy and freedom from the first emergence of human culture to today's globalized capitalism, constantly pointing the way to a sane, sustainable ecological future.
- Encyclopedia of Physicial Science and Technology
Resource Type: Book
- False Promises
The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- HitGrab Inc.
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Illich, Ivan
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Austrian philosopher, Roman Catholic priest and critic of the institutions of contemporary western culture. (1926-2002).
- In Praise of Idleness
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1932
More leisure, not work, will benefit civilization. Modern organization and technology makes a four hour work day possible for leisure to be distributed to everyone.
- Marxists Internet Archive
Resource Type: Website
Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
- Mastering the Machine
Poverty, Aid and Technology
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The Nazis and Deconstruction: Jean-Pierre Faye's Demolition of Derrida
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1993
A review of Jean-Pierre Faye's book 'La raison narrative', which traces the Nazi origins of deconstructionist and post-modernist concepts and terminology. Faye shows, for example, that the concept of 'deconstruction' was introduced in a Nazi journal edited by M.H. Goering, and he shows how theorists who based themselves on Heidegger's writings, such as Derrida, Lyotard, and Lacoue-Labarthe, whitewashed Heidegger's Nazism, treating it as a mere 'detail'.
- Necessary and Unneccessary Utopias
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
Reasserts the need for a bold and revolutionary imagination, one aimed at saner ways of living and organizaing society.
- Nest Reminds Customers That Ownership Isn't What It Used to Be
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Nest Labs, a home automation company acquired by Google in 2014, will disable some of its customers' home automation control devices in May. This move is causing quite a stir among people who purchased the $300 Revolv Hub devices -- customers who reasonably expected that the promised "lifetime" of updates would enable the hardware they paid for to actually work, only to discover the manufacturer can turn their device into a useless brick when it so chooses.
- Nest's move to stop supporting Revolv smart hub leaves customers with costly 'brick'
Internet of Things customers need to be aware what will and will not work without internet
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Here's a major downside to the so-called Internet of Things -- companies can potentially disconnect your smart devices and leave them essentially useless at any time.
- New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2018
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
Peter Steven aims to make readers realize the power and influence of dominant media but, at the same time, also understand that they are not "omnipotent" and that there are alternative forms available.
- Oh, What a Blow That Phantom Gave Me!
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
How media have taken over our lives.
- Post Scarcity Anarchism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
Modern radicals, says Bookchin, have ignored the real revolutionary possibilities of modern technology and the counterculture. Unless they start building a movement which looks to the future, they are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past.
- The Red Menace
A libertarian socialist newsletter
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1980
Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
- Schule und Fabrik
Internationale Marxistische Discussion 30
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
- Science & Technology Topic Index in Sources Directory of Experts
Spokespersons, Experts, and Resources
Resource Type: Website
A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to science and technology in the Sources directory for the media.
- Seven Top Tips for Using QR Codes
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The QR code connects the real world to the web and stimulates the social conversation. Randall Craig offers seven key considerations for using them.
- Sign Crimes/Road Kill
From Mediascape to Landscape
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
A collection of thirty short essays by Joyce Nelson, a writer specializing in the politics of the mass media.
- Simon Fraser University
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Small is Beautiful
A Study of Economics as if People Mattered
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
Schumacher argues that mainstream economics is incompatible with the long-term ends of humanity.
- Socialist Register 1996
Volume 32: Are There Alternatives?
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1996
- Sources welcomes Commuto Inc.
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
Commuto is an online social bartering network where members trade in person with other members in their cities, schools, workplaces or any other communities they create.
- The State of the World Atlas
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
- Technics and Civilization
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1963
A history of the machine and a critical study of its effects on civilization.
- Technology and Empire
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
- Technology, the Labor Process, and the Working Class
Monthly Review July-August 1976
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
- The Ursula Franklin Reader
Pacifism as a Map
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
A prominent Canadian peace activist discusses peace, technology, justice and women's issues in a collection of essays, speeches and unpublished musings.
- Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1962
Whatever the subject, Goodman asks: What blocks and limits human freedom, joy, and creativity? What tends to release, free, liberate? In criticizing society and life his purpose is to improve. Goodman is animated by a vision of a good society, a coherent community, a style, and quality, of life that is fully human, and humanizes.
- Working Class Experience
Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
From nineteenth-century tavern life to late twentieth-century cinema, from rough canallers and the first stirrings of craft unionism to contemporary public-sector strikes, this books provides a sweeping interpretive study of the history of the Canadian working class since 1800.
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