Autonomy
Bibliography
This is not a complete bibliography but simply a
selection of well-thumbed favourites that litter our
bookshelves and have fuelled our lives and actions.
See resources at the end of each section for web
links and other books.
Emergence
Rebels Against the Future: the Luddites and
their war on the industrial revolution-lessons
for the computer age by Kirkpatrick Sale (1996)
Quartet Books.
No Logo: taking aim at the brand bullies by
Naomi Klein (2000) Flamingo.
The Battle of Seattle: the new challenge to
capitalist globalization ed. George Katsiaficas,
Eddie Yuen, and Daniel Burton-Rose (2002) Soft
Skull Press.
First World, Ha, Ha, Ha! the Zapatista
challenge ed. Elaine Katzenberger (1995)
City Lights.
The Case Against the Global Economy: and for
a turn toward the local eds by Jerry Mander and
Edward Goldsmith (1996) Sierra Club.
Globalization from Below: the power of
solidarity by Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello, and
Brendan Smith (2002) South End Press.
Year 501: the conquest continues by Noam
Chomsky (1993) South End Press.
The Many-Headed Hydra : the hidden history
of the revolutionary atlantic by Linebaugh and
Rediker (2002) Verso.
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Blue Gold: the battle against corporate theft
of the world's water by Maude Barlow and Tony
Clarke (2002) Earthscan.
Biopiracy: the plunder of nature and
knowledge by Vandana Shiva (1998) Green Books.
Networks
Linked: the new science of networks by
Alberto-Lszl Barabsi (2002) Perseus.
Small World: uncovering natures hidden
networks by Mark Buchanan (2002) Weidenfeld
and Nicolson.
The Hidden Connections: a science for
sustainable living by Fritjof Capra (2002)
Harper Collins.
The Rise of the Network Society, Volume 1 of
The Information Age: economy, society and
culture by Manuel Castells (1996) Blackwell.
Steps to an Ecology of Mind by Gregory Bateson
(1973) Paladin Press.
Emergence: the connected lives of ants,
brains, cities, and software by Steven Johnson
(2002) Penguin Books.
The Murray Bookchin Reader ed. Janet Biehl
(1997) Cassell.
Networks and Netwars: the future of terror,
crime, and militancy by John Arquilla and David
Ronfeldt (2001) RAND. (Available online at
www.rand.org).
Anarchism and Ecology by Graham Purchase
(1997) Black Rose Books.
Schnews Annual: stories that shook the world
(2002). Justice Contact: www.schnews.org.uk
Squall Annual: the best of independent media.
Contact: www.squall.org.uk
European Autonomous Social Movements and
the Decolonization of Everyday Life by George
Katsiaficas (1997) Humanities Press International.
The Algebra of Infinite Justice by Arundhati
Roy (2002) Flamingo.
Stolen Harvest: the hijacking of the global
food supply by Vandana Shiva (1999)
South End Press.
Basta! Land and the Zapatista Rebellion in
Chiapas by George Collier, with Elizabeth Lowery
Quaratiello (1999) Food First Books.
The Temporary Autonomous Zone: ontological
anarchy, poetic terrorism by Hakim Bey (1991)
Semiotext(e). (Available online
www.hermetic.com/bey/index.html).
One Market Under God: extreme capitalism,
market populism, and the end of economic
democracy by Thomas Frank (2002) Vintage.
Carnival
Rabelais and His World by Mikhail Bakhtin
(1984) Indiana University Press.
A Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe 1989
by Padraic Kenney (2002) Princeton
University Press.
Upside Down: a primer for the looking-glass
world by Eduardo Galeano (2001) Picador.
Lipstick Traces: a brief history of the
twentieth century by Greil Marcus (1989) Picador.
The Revolution of Everyday Life by Raoul
Vaneigem (1994) Rebel Press/Left Bank Books.
(Available online:
http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/
 Drunken Boat: art, rebellion, anarchy ed. Max
Blechman (1994) Autonomedia/Left Bank Books.
The Cultural Resistance Reader eds Stephen
Duncombe (2002) Verso.
The Best of Abbie Hoffman ed. Daniel Simon
and Norman Mailer (1989) Four Walls
Eight Windows.
The Most Radical Gesture: the Situationist
International in a postmodern age by Sadie
Plant (1992) Routledge.
Pranks! edited Andrea Juno and V. spaceVale
(1987) Re/Search Publications.
Commodify your Dissent: the business of
culture in the new gilded age eds Thomas Frank
and Matt Weiland (1997) Norton and Co.
The Action-Image of Society: on cultural
politicization by Alfred Willener (1970) Tavistock.
Clandestinity
The Silencing of Political Dissent: how post-
September 11 anti-terrorism measures
threaten our civil liberties by Nancy Chang
(2002) Seven Stories Press.
Power and Terror: post 9-11 talks and
interviews by Noam Chomsky (2003) Seven
Stories Press.
Open Veins of Latin America: five centuries of
the pillage of a continent by Eduardo Galeano,
(2000) Monthly Review Press.
Bitter Fruit: the untold story of the American
coup in Guatemala by Stephen C. Schlesinger
and Stephen Kinzer (1990) Random House.
On Fire: the battle of Genoa and the
anticapitalist movement ed. One Off Press (2001)
One Off Press.
Resist: A grassroots collection of stories,
poetry, photos and analyses from Qubec City
FTAA protests and beyond eds Jen Chang et al.
(2001) Fernwood Publishing.
Desire for Change: women on the front line of
global restistance by PGA Women (2002) LARC
press. Email pgabolivia@yahoo.co.uk
War At Home: covert action against US
activists and what we can do about it by Brian
Glick (1989) South End Press.
Power
Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord (1970)
Black and Red.
Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault
(1977) Penguin.
Empire by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
(2000) Harvard University Press.
Change the World: without taking power by
John Holloway (2002) Pluto Press.
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli (1961) Penguin.
Demanding the Impossible: a history of
anarchism by Peter Marshall (1993) Fontana.
Empowering the Earth: strategies for social
change by Alex Begg (2000) Green Books.
Post-Scarcity Anarchism by Murray Bookchin
(1986) Black Rose Books.
Restructuring and resistance: diverse voices of
struggle in Western Europe edited by Kolya
Abramsky (2000). for copies: AK Press distribution
UK, www.akuk.org or email resresrev@yahoo.com
Storming Heaven: class composition and
struggle in Italian autonomist Marxism by
Steve Wright (2002) Pluto Press.
Walking
Naming the Enemy: anti-corporate movements
confront globalization by Amory Starr (2001)
Zed Books.
Ecology of Everyday Life: rethinking the
desire for nature by Chaia Heller (1999) Black
Rose Books.
Our Word is Our Weapon: Selected Writings
of Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, (2001)
Serpents Tail, UK/ Seven Stories, US.
Message of a Wise Kabouter by Roel Van Duyn
(1969) Duckworth.
Pedagogy of Hope: reliving pedagogy of the
oppressed by Paulo Freire (1994) Continuum.
Activism!: direct action, hacktivism and the
future of society by Tim Jordan (2002) Reaktion.
Utopistics: or, historical choices of the
twenty-first century by Immanuel Wallerstein
(1998) New Press.
Wanderlust: a history of walking by Rebecca
Solnit (2001) Verso.
Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit (2004)
Nation Books.
The Dispossessed: an ambiguous utopia by
Ursula K. Le Guin (1974) Panther Press.
I would like my books to be
Molotov cocktails or
minefields; I would like them
to self-destruct after use, like
fireworks. Michel Foucault
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