READING (presentation recommendations)
Le Guin, Ursula K. The Dispossessed. 1974. San Francisco: Harper & Row
Callenbach, Ernest. Ecotopia. 1974. Banyan Tree Books
Banks, Iain M. Culture series, special mention : The Player of Games. 1988. MacMillan Press.
Wells, Martha. Murderbot Diaries series, special mention: Network Effect. 2020. Tor Books.
READING (research)
Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid’s Tale. 1985. McClelland and Stewart
Bellamy, Edward. Looking Backward 2000 – 1887 1888. Ticknor & Co.
Bradbury, Ray. “A Sound of Thunder”. Collier’s magazine June 28, 1952
Graeber, David Bullshit Jobs: A Theory : 2018 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
Kaplan, Aitken, Allan, Alliger, Ballard, Zacher. Revisiting Keynes’ predictions about work and leisure: A discussion of fundamental questions about the nature of modern work Cambridge University Press: 31 January 2025
More,Thomas Utopia. 1516. Habsburg, Netherlands.
Orwell, George. Animal Farm. 1945. London: Secker and Warburg.
Williams, Zoé. “‘You can’t make billions without hurting people’: Cory Doctorow on Elon Musk, the AI bubble and bosses’ cruel fantasies” 24 June 2026. The Guardian. : https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/24/cory-doctorow-on-elon-musk-ai-bubble-bosses-cruel-fantasies?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
WEBSITES
Wolfe, Jeanne: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Wolfe
Bellamy, Edward: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bellamy
English bank strikes (mentioned in Bullshit Jobs by Dave Graeber): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_bank_strikes_(1966%E2%80%931976)
VIDEOS:
This is here for no particular reason, except that when I saw Edward Bellamy it made me think of Jeremy Bearimy.
This is how I would have imagined a new world utopian experiment. Good land, sunny skies and so forth, happy little farm animals. Unfortunately, it was more “All animals are equal. Some animals are more equal than others.”