Books | Hacking Culture

Books related to free software, the public good, public sphere, etc.

Nick Crossley, John Michael Roberts

After Habermas: New Perspectives on the Public Sphere (Blackwell Publishing, 2004)

Fredric Jameson

An American Utopia: Dual Power and the Universal Army (Verso, 2016)

Lawrence Lessig

Code: Version 2.0 (Basic Books, 2006)

Gabriella (Biella) Coleman

Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking (Princeton University Press, 2012)

Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous (Verso, 2014)

Rebecca MacKinnon

Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom (Basic Books, 2013)

David M. Berry

Copy, Rip, Burn: The Politics of Copyleft and Open Source (Pluto Press, 2008)

The Philosophy of Software: Code and Mediation in the Digital Age (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)

Terry Eagleton

Culture (Yale University Press, 2016)

Susan Leigh Star

Cultures of Computing (Blackwell Publishing, 1995)

Nick Dyer-Witheford

Cyber-Marx: Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High Technology Capitalism (University of Illinois Press, 1999)

Bruce Schneier

Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World (Norton, 2015)

Samir Chopra, Scott D. Dexter

Decoding Liberation: The Promise of Free and Open Source Software (Routledge, 2010)

Richard M. Stallman

Free Software, Free Society (Free Software Foundation, 2002)

Paul Graham

Hackers and Painters (O'Reilly Media, 2004)

Steven Levy

Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (Doubleday, 1984)

Tim Jordan

Hacking: Digital Media and Technological Determinism (Polity Press, 2008)

Janet Abbate

Inventing the Internet (MIT Press, 1999)

Anita Say Chan

Networking Peripheries: Technological Futures and the Myth of Digital Universalism (MIT Press, 2014)

Chris DiBona, Sam Ockman, Mark Stone

Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution (O'Reilly Media, 1999)

Raymond Geuss

Public Goods, Private Goods (Princeton University Press, 2001)

Ruth Suehle, Tom Callaway

Raspberry Pi Hacks: Tips & Tools for Making Things with the Inexpensive Linux Computer (O'Reilly Media, 2013)

Alex Goody

Technology, Literature and Culture (Polity Press, 2011)

Eric S. Raymond

The Cathedral and the Bazaar (O'Reilly Media, 1999)

Luc Boltanski, Eve Chiapello

The New Spirit of Capitalism (Verso, 2007)

Charlie Reisinger

The Open Schoolhouse: Building a Technology Program to Transform Learning and Empower Students (CreateSpace, 2016)

John Dewey

The Public and its Problems (Holt Publishers, 1927)

Dan Hind

The Return of the Public: Democracy, Power and the Case for Media Reform (Verso, 2010)

Jürgen Habermas

The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society (MIT Press, 1989)

Yochai Benkler

The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (Yale University Press, 2006)