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Should digital technology be viewed as a new life form, sharing our ecosystem and coevolving with us?

Are humans defining technology, or is technology defining humans? In this book, Edward Ashford Lee considers the case that we are less in control of the trajectory of technology than we think. It shapes us as much as we shape it, and it may be more defensible to think of technology as the result of a Darwinian coevolution than the result of top-down intelligent design. Richard Dawkins famously said that a chicken is an egg's way of making another egg. Is a human a computer's way of making another computer? To understand this question requires a deep dive into how evolution works, how humans are different from computers, and how the way technology develops resembles the emergence of a new life form on our planet.

The Coevolution: The Entwined Futures of Humans and Machines : Lee, Edward Ashford : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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How a team of musicians, engineers, computer scientists, and psychologists developed computer music as an academic field and ushered in the era of digital music.

In the 1960s, a team of Stanford musicians, engineers, computer scientists, and psychologists used computing in an entirely novel way: to produce and manipulate sound and create the sonic basis of new musical compositions. This group of interdisciplinary researchers at the nascent Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA, pronounced “karma”) helped to develop computer music as an academic field, invent the technologies that underlie it, and usher in the age of digital music. In The Sound of Innovation, Andrew Nelson chronicles the history of CCRMA, tracing its origins in Stanford's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory through its present-day influence on Silicon Valley and digital music groups worldwide.

The Sound of Innovation: Stanford and the Computer Music Revolution : Nelson, Andrew J. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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peninsula / 1988

piano - Adam Wodnicki

Artist: Thomas Clark Composer: Thomas Clark

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Manipulative communication—from early twentieth-century propaganda to today's online con artistry—examined through the lens of social engineering.

The United States is awash in manipulated information about everything from election results to the effectiveness of medical treatments. Corporate social media is an especially good channel for manipulative communication, with Facebook a particularly willing vehicle for it. In Social Engineering, Robert Gehl and Sean Lawson show that online misinformation has its roots in earlier techniques: mass social engineering of the early twentieth century and interpersonal hacker social engineering of the 1970s, converging today into what they call “masspersonal social engineering.” As Gehl and Lawson trace contemporary manipulative communication back to earlier forms of social engineering, possibilities for amelioration become clearer.

Social Engineering: How Crowdmasters, Phreaks, Hackers, and Trolls Created a New Form of Manipulative Communication : Gehl, Robert W., Lawson, Sean T : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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Metamorphoses of Science Fiction is the origin point for decades of literary and theoretical criticism of science fiction and related genres. Darko Suvin’s paradigm-setting definition of SF as «the literature of cognitive estrangement» established a robust theory of the genre that continues to spark fierce debate, as well as inspiring myriad intellectual descendants and disciples. Suvin’s centuries-spanning history of the genre links SF to a long tradition of utopian and satirical literatures crying out for a better world than this one, showing how SF and the imagination of utopia are now forever intertwined.

Metamorphoses of Science Fiction : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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KITBASH SCI-FI SPACE SHIP: HOW TO

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The Film Industry is About to Change Forever

go to 1:11 this is very interesting

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Since the enormous triumph of Naked Lunch, Burroughs has been criticized for writing books that have been too inaccessible or simply bad. (He has also written a number of very good books that have been widely read, such as Junkie and ‘The Wild Boys). In his attempt to get to the front, Burroughs experimented extremely with language that he not only went too far out but also lost contact with a large part of his audience. He also, he admits today, published books that should have remained in notebooks.

High Times Magazine,1970s : THC : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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Walt Disney never learned to draw Donald Duck or Pluto, or to duplicate the famous signature that emblazoned every one of his products, but his insight into the American collective unconscious was nothing short of mystical. It was Walt who spotted little Annette Funicello dancing in the Burbank Starlight Bowl and knew she'd be the sex star of “The Mickey Mouse Club”; it was Walt who coined the phrase “zip a dee doo dah,” which, once set to music, would win an Oscar for Song of the South (1946). Disney had the system beat: He copped an Emmy by televising an hour-long promo for an upcoming theatrical release: he maintained a separate firm that licensed the use of his name back to Walt Disney Productions. In the end, the culture machine that Walt built and left behind was so perfect that, like his android Abraham Lincoln, it could walk and talk without the benefit of a brain. 1980

High Times Magazine,1970s : THC : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2001) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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The study argues that since 1980, Einstürzende Neubauten (as a product of the idiosyncratic circumstances of a divided Berlin) have consistently produced a variety of innovative and experimental music. Secondly, it argues that although their methods and philosophies of music-making reflect tumultuous and expanding times in European art, thought and politics, the group’s works defy generic and media boundaries. The evidence offered for both these arguments is found in the musicians’ unusual application and structure of objet trouve for instrumentation, the use of their mother tongue and non phonemic vocalisation, the theatrical physicalisation of their performances, the apocalyptic and metaphysical concerns of their texts, their belief in foregrounded process and participatory listening and their efforts to

facilitate self-production and maintain autonomy over their work.

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In the 100 years since Freud, psychology had made great strides toward healing the troubled mind and unraveling its secrets. Now it appeared that the science could be used with devastating force as a weapon to imprison people. The discoveries of Pavlov and later Skinner suggested that new behaviors could be shaped simply by pressing the right buttons, but the CIA was dissatisfied. The Skinnerian behaviorists, who dominated university psychology departments in the late ‘50s, were too rigidly scientific to accomplish the far-reaching goals the CIA envisioned. Instead, money was funneled through the CIA's conduit, the Human Ecology Foundation, to unwitting researchers whose more imaginative discoveries contributed to the expanded effectiveness of the CLA’s mind-control techniques and spread to be incorporated by radical therapists in the ‘60s and cult leaders in the '70s. 1979

High Times Magazine,1970s : THC : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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A textbook on cartooning written in 1956, now in the public domain. Written by some of the most well-known cartoonists of the era, such as Al Capp, Rube Goldberg, and Milton Caniff.

Famous Artists Cartoon Course : Al Capp, Rube Goldberg, Milton Caniff, Harry Haenigsen, Willard Mullin, Guerny Williams, Dick Cavalli, Whitney Darrow Jr., Virgil Partch, Barney Tobey : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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Grateful Dead - Drums and Space - Percussion and Ambient Sound (1966-1995)

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Psychological warfare and propaganda have been used extensively in warfare since the earliest times. This book explores the functions, limitations, types, and history of psychological warfare through 1953. It was written by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, a US Army officer, a noted East Asia scholar, and an expert in psychological warfare, also known by the pseudonym Cordwainer Smith as a science fiction author. Linebarger had extensive experience with the practice and implementation of psychological warfare techniques in the field through his work with the Office of War Information.

Psychological Warfare By Paul M. A. Linebarger : VRILwave : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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Psychological Warfare : Paul M. A. Linebarger : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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Radical movements are feeding on anxiety about immigration, globalization and the refugee crisis, giving rise to new waves of nationalism and surges of white supremacism. A curious mixture of Aristocratic paganism, anti-Semitic demonology, Eastern philosophies and the occult is influencing populist antigovernment sentiment and helping to exploit the widespread fear that invisible elites are shaping world events. Black Sun examines this neofascist ideology, showing how hate groups, militias and conspiracy cults gain influence. Based on interviews and extensive research into underground groups, the book documents new Nazi and fascist sects that have sprung up since the 1970s and examines the mentality and motivation of these far-right extremists. The result is a detailed, grounded portrait of the mythical and devotional aspects of Hitler cults among Aryan mystics, racist skinheads and Nazi satanists, and disciples of heavy metal music and occult literature.

Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity Paperback : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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Grimoires : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive