Further reading:

·      The btrmt. article that inspired this

·      From Zero: on recreating systems from scratch

·      Digital Selves: taking control of your digital presence

·      True Family Ties: on the erosion of our communities

·      Education is Entertainment: on why some ideas stick

References:

·      Karl Wittfogel and Hydraulic civilisations on Wikipedia

·      Wittfogel, Oriental Despotism (1957)

·      Thames Water’s debt crisis (BBC)

·      Russia-Ukraine food insecurity (European Council)

·      Nvidia valuation (BBC)

·      Mann’s Infrastructural Power on Wikipedia

·      Platform Capitalism and its dynamics

·      Callon’s Obligatory Passage Points and Latour’s Actor-Network Theory on Wikipedia

·      Essential Facilities Doctrine on Wikipedia

·      EU Digital Markets Act on Wikipedia

·      Cory Doctorow, “The Post-American Internet” (39C3 talk) — on the new coalition, anticircumvention law, and Eurostack

·      Cory Doctorow on enshittification and adversarial interoperability

·      Elinor Ostrom, Governing the Commons (1990)

·      Selye’s Eustress — the distinction between good stress and bad stress

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