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Dreams Must Explain Themselves — Ursula K. Le Guin

By 5t4n5
Click here to go to the Amazon page of this book.Click here to go to the Amazon page of, Dreams Must Explain Themselves -- Ursula K. Le Guin

National Book Award Acceptance Speech
Dreams Must Explain Themselves
A Citizen of Mondath
From Elfland to Poughkeepsie
Why Are Americans Afraid of Dragons?
Is Gender Necessary? Redux
Introduction to The Left Hand of Darkness
The Space Crone
Introduction to The Word for World is Forest
Close Encounters, Star Wars, and the Tertium Quid
Shikasta by Doris Lessing
It was a Dark and Stormy Night: Or, Why Are We Huddling about the Campfire?
The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five by Doris Lessing
Some Thoughts on Narrative
Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino
World-Making
The Princess
Facing It
A Non-Euclidean View of California as a Cold Place to Be
A Left-Handed Commencement Address
The Sentimental Agents by Doris Lessing
Whose Lathe?
Theodora
Science Fiction and the Future
Prospects for Women in Writing
Bryn Mawr Commencement Address
Heroes
The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
The Fisherwoman’s Daughter
Things Not Actually Present: On The Book of Fantasy and J. L. Borges
Prides: An Essay on Writing Workshops
Indian Uncles by Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
The Writer On, and At, Her Work
Dogs, Cats, and Dancers: Thoughts about Beauty
Introducing Myself
Off the Page: Loud Cows, a Talk and a Poem about Reading Aloud
Reading Young, Reading Old: Mark Twain’s Diaries of Adam and Eve
All Happy Families
The Operating Instructions
The Question I get Asked Most Often
Rhythmic Pattern in The Lord of the Rings
A Matter of Trust
On the Frontier
Old Body, Not Writing
The Critics, the Monsters, and the Fantasists
Collectors, Rhymesters, and Drummers
About Feet
The Writer and the Character
Cheek by Jowl: Animals in Children’s Literature
Why Kids Want Fantasy, or, Be Careful What You Eat
National Book Award Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters Acceptance Speech

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Why Work? — Collection

By 5t4n5
Click here to go to the PM Press page of this book.Click here to go to the PM Press page of, Why Work? a collection.

Introductions

Beyond Waged Labour — Nina Power – 2016
In Praise of Idleness — Bertrand Russell – 1932
Useful Work versus Useless Toil — William Morris – 1885

The Problems of Work

The Tyranny of the Clock — George Woodcock – 1944
The Problem of Work — Camillo Berneri – 1938
The Art of Shovelling — Ifan Edwards – 1947
Measuring Misery — John Hewetson – 1954
The Wage System — Peter Kropotkin – 1888
‘Who will do the Dirty Work?’ — Tony Gibson – 1952
The Dominant Idea — Voltarine de Cleyre – 1910

Alternatives and Futures

Reflections on Utopia — SP – 1962
Collectives in the Spanish Revolution — Gaston Leval – 1975
Significance of the “Self-Build” Movement – 1952
Leisure in America — August Heckscher II – 1961
The Other Economy: The Possibilities of Work Beyond Employment — Denis Pym – 1981
Visions: Six Drawings — Cliff Harper – 1975

Production: Need vs Profit

Editorials from Freedom Newspaper – 1958–1962

Changing Times

Wrinklies and Crumblies Discuss Punks and Joblessness — Colin Ward – 1996
Beyond an Economy of Work and Spend — Juliet Schor – 1997
Dark Satanic Cubicles: It’s Time to Smash the Job Culture! — Claire Wolfe – 2005
On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs — David Graeber – 2013
Work — Prole.info – 2005

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Context — Cory Doctorow

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Click here to go to the Craphound page of this book.Click here to go to the Craphound page of, Context, written by Cory Doctorow.

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Jack and the Interstalk: Why the Computer Is Not a Scary Monster
Teen Sex
Nature’s Daredevils: Writing for Young Audiences
Beyond Censorware: Teaching Web Literacy
Writing in the Age of Distraction
Extreme Geek
How to Stop Your Inbox Exploding
What I Do
When I’m Dead, How Will My Loved Ones Break My Password?
Radical Presentism
A Cosmopolitan Literature for the Cosmopolitan Web
When Love Is Harder to Show Than Hate
Think Like a Dandelion
Digital Licensing: Do It Yourself
New York, Meet Silicon Valley
With a Little Help: The Price Is Right
You Shouldn’t Have to Sell Your Soul Just to Download Some Music
Net Neutrality for Writers: It’s All About the Leverage
Proprietary Interest
“Intellectual Property” Is a Silly Euphemism
Saying Information Wants to Be Free Does More Harm Than Good
Chris Anderson’s Free Adds Much to The Long Tail, but Falls Short
Why Economics Condemns 3D to Be No More Than a Blockbuster Gimmick
Not Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining
Why I Won’t Buy an iPad (and Think You Shouldn’t, Either)
Can You Survive a Benevolent Dictatorship?
Curated Computing Is No Substitute for the Personal and Handmade
Doctorow’s First Law
Reports of Blogging’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Streaming Will Never Stop Downloading
Search Is Too Important to Leave to One Company—Even Google
Copyright Enforcers Should Learn Lessons from the War on Spam
Warning to All Copyright Enforcers: Three Strikes and You’re Out
For Whom the Net Tolls
How Do You Know If Copyright Is Working?
News Corp Kremlinology: What Do the Times Paywall Numbers Mean?
Persistence Pays Parasites
Like Teenagers, Computers Are Built to Hook Up
Promoting Statistical Literacy: A Modest Proposal
Personal Data Is as Hot as Nuclear Waste
Memento Mori
Love the Machine, Hate the Factory
Untouched by Human Hands
Close Enough for Rock ’n’ Roll

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You Can’t Own Knowledge — Cory Doctorow

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You Can't Own Knowledge, written by Cory Doctorow.You can read for free at FREESOULS.

If the block caps bothers you, you can copy and paste the text into a word program, select all, set font, set size font, and it’ll come out normal for you to read.   I have no idea why someone would block cap their whole website apart from a few letters and make it so impossible to read.   I suppose it’s someone without any sense thinking they’re being really arty and avant-garde or something — well you ain’t, you’re just being a twat.

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Content — Cory Doctorow

By 5t4n5
Click here to go to the Craphound page of this book.Click here to go to the Craphound page of, Content, written by Cory Doctorow.

Download for free/donation over at Craphound.

Microsoft Research DRM Talk (This talk was originally given to Microsoft’s Research Group and other interested parties from within the company at their Redmond offices on June 17, 2004.)

 

The DRM Sausage Factory (Originally published as “A Behind-The-Scenes Look At How DRM Becomes Law,” InformationWeek, July 11, 2007)

 

Happy Meal Toys versus Copyright: How America chose Hollywood and Wal-Mart, and why it’s doomed us, and how we might survive anyway (Originally published as “How Hollywood, Congress, And DRM Are Beating Up The American Economy,” InformationWeek, June 11, 2007)

 

Why Is Hollywood Making A Sequel To The Napster Wars? (Originally published in InformationWeek, August 14, 2007)

 

You DO Like Reading Off a Computer Screen (Originally published in Locus Magazine, March 2007)

 

How Do You Protect Artists? (Originally published in The Guardian as “Online censorship hurts us all,” Tuesday, Oct 2, 2007)

 

It’s the Information Economy, Stupid (Originally published in The Guardian as “Free data sharing is here to stay,” September 18, 2007)

 

Downloads Give Amazon Jungle Fever (Originally published in The Guardian, December 11, 2007)

 

What’s the Most Important Right Creators Have? (Originally published as “How Big Media’s Copyright Campaigns Threaten Internet Free Expression,” InformationWeek, November 5, 2007)

 

Giving it Away (Originally published on Forbes.com, December 2006)

 

Science Fiction is the Only Literature People Care Enough About to Steal on the Internet (Originally published in Locus Magazine, July 2006)

 

How Copyright Broke (Originally published in Locus Magazine, September, 2006) 

 

In Praise of Fanfic (Originally published in Locus Magazine, May 2007)

 

Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia (Self-published, 26 August 2001)

 

Amish for QWERTY (Originally published on the O’Reilly Network, 07/09/2003, http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2003/07/09/amish qwerty.html)

 

Ebooks: Neither E, Nor Books (Paper for the O’Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference, San Diego, February 12, 2004)

 

Free(konomic) E-books (Originally published in Locus Magazine, September 2007)

 

The Progressive Apocalypse and Other Futurismic Delights (Originally published in Locus Magazine, July 2007)

 

When the Singularity is More Than a Literary Device: An Interview with Futurist-Inventor Ray Kurzweil (Originally published in Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, June 2005) 

 

Wikipedia: a genuine Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy — minus the editors (Originally published in The Anthology at the End of the Universe, April 2005)

 

Warhol is Turning in His Grave (Originally published in The Guardian, November 13, 2007)

 

The Future of Ignoring Things (Originally published on InformationWeek’s Internet Evolution, October 3, 2007)

 

Facebook’s Faceplant (Originally published as “How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook,” in InformationWeek, November 26, 2007)

 

The Future of Internet Immune Systems (Originally published on InformationWeek’s Internet Evolution, November 19, 2007)

 

All Complex Ecosystems Have Parasites (Paper delivered at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, San Diego, California, 16 March 2005)

 

READ CAREFULLY (Originally published as “Shrinkwrap Licenses: An Epidemic Of Lawsuits Waiting To Happen” in InformationWeek, February 3, 2007)

 

World of Democracycraft (Originally published as “Why Online Games Are Dictatorships,” InformationWeek, April 16, 2007)

 

Snitchtown (Originally published in Forbes.com, June 2007)

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