/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.14530333]

I'll ask again

What are some fundamental and patrician texts one must read in order to become fluent in understanding Technology?

I appreciate your suggestions.

t. budding technologist.

[Anonymous No.14530335]

[Anonymous No.14530336]

Heidegger - The question concerning technology

Everything else is trash

[Anonymous No.14530392]

>>14530333
Here you go, experience these in order

>Serial Experiments Lain (ps1 game)
>The Machine in the Ghost
>Engines of Creation
>On Intellegence
>Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus
>Anti-Tech Revolution (it's important to remember he wants you to be a terrorist)
Now you need to gain a basic understanding of philosophy (the Greeks, Kant, Hegel, Marx, schopenhauer @ a minimum)
>#accelerate
>Fanged Noumena
>CCRU
>Ghost in the Shell (manga)

[Anonymous No.14530529]

>>14530333
check your mail

[Anonymous No.14530581]

>>14530333
Can I refine this request slightly to books specifically about computing— history, theory, fundamentals, anything informative and nonfiction and preferably digestible?

Also bump for more refs for OP

[Anonymous No.14530610]

>>14530529
based Ted poster

[Anonymous No.14530624]

>>14530581
+The Economic Singularity
>>14530392
- Lain and Gost in the Shell

[Anonymous No.14530863]

>>14530581
>Can I refine this request slightly to books specifically about computing— history, theory, fundamentals, anything informative and nonfiction and preferably digestible?

Absolutely! Recommend away folks!

[Anonymous No.14531100]

>>14530333
Plato - Complete Works
Jean Jacques Rousseau - The Social Contract, Emile, Two Discourses
David Ricardo - Principles..., chapter On Machinery
Charles Babbage - On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures
Karl Marx - Capital vol 1
Charles
Jacques Ellul - Technological Society
Lewis Mumford - Technics and Civilization
Martin Heidegger - Question Concerning Technology
Stanislaw Lem - Summa technologiae
Ted Kaczynski - Industrial Society and its Future

[Anonymous No.14531220]

>>14530581
The art of computer programming
SICP

[Anonymous No.14533077]

>>14530392
>>14530529
>>14530610
>>14531100
Why all the Ted love in a pro Tech thread?

[Anonymous No.14533101]

>>14530336
Enframing and standing reserve I find to be useless concepts. Not sure why this piece is so acclaimed.

[Anonymous No.14533112]

>>14530392
Holy cringe.

[Anonymous No.14533115]

>>14533101
Why?

[Anonymous No.14533495]

>>14533077
Because Ted managed to prove that you can be a literal murderer, and still be more virtuous than the filthy technologues whom plague this world.

[Anonymous No.14534069]

>>14533495
But... He killed ppl lol

[Anonymous No.14534444]

bump :)

[Anonymous No.14534465]

>>14530333
Since you got trips I as someone who was actually on /g/ will give you this.

Here's /sci/'s list first though since I'm still trying to find the /g/ one.

[Anonymous No.14534470]

>>14530333
Here it is, I think.

[Anonymous No.14534484]

>>14533495
>>14531100
based.


>>14530333
When the revolution occurs all you Technofucks are going to get stoned to death just like in the good old days

[Anonymous No.14534574]

>>14534465
>>14534470
With all due respect chaps this all seems very advanced.

How can a beginner into this?

[Anonymous No.14534589]

The Technium by Kevin Kelly (and his other writings)
Jaron Lanier
Norbert Wiener

>>14534484
Ignorant cretin.

[Anonymous No.14534689]

>>14534574
>this all seems very advanced
That was the thread's premise.
>How can a beginner into this?
It will be a long and difficult road.
You must first in fact acquire an interest in technology in the first place. You have to be curious.
Why is one piece of software "better" than others, and in what ways?
Why is one set of hardware "better" than others, and in what ways?
It begins with these very basic questions that lead you to examine the instances of technology in your life and which you had previously neglected to consider.

How to get there? You have to read random things.
Tech forums and their archives.
Personal blogs.
Encyclopedias (mostly web-based).
Projects' 'About Us' pages.

You won't make it until you've started familiarizing yourself with the ways technology already impacts you and could further affect your life.

You see picrel? I bet you don't understand a word of it. And if you come across it in any of the rec'd books, you won't care to. You need to know what GNU/Linux is and what it can be used for before you can even begin to learn how it works. Otherwise, not only will you be lost, you won't even feel motivated to find the way forward.

Start using Startpage and Yandex instead of Google to search for things.
rbt.asia/g or warosu.org/g

[Anonymous No.14534798]

>>14534465
Kek’d at bottom right

[Anonymous No.14534930]

>>14530333
Spengler's Man and Technic is a pretty short read which has a lot of valuable insight into where exactly technology fits into a cultural/historical model, as well as his prediction for the Technic becoming the central organizing principle behind the Faustian model.

[Anonymous No.14535047]

reject false dichotomies
embrace archeo-futurism

[Anonymous No.14535131]

>>14530610
this.

[Anonymous No.14535423]

>>14534689
Why the fug would you use yandex rather than Google lol

[Anonymous No.14535440]

>>14530333

[Anonymous No.14535455]

>>14535423
Because Google will give you shit results that are entirely based on around the 6 or so most popular websites on a subject everytime.
Not like you would know this with your severely shallow interests and understanding of topics you're barely familiar with.

[Anonymous No.14535663]

>>14535455
No need to be snappy mate I am just trying to learn

[Anonymous No.14535685]

>>14535663
Then cut the crap like you know better.