{"title":"Radical Recommendations @ MUTEK 2025","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/forum.mutek.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eMUTEK Forum\u003c\/a\u003e speakers share the books that fuel their work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA selection offering a glimpse into the ideas and inspirations at the heart of their “Radical Rituals.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe reading list is available to explore in the Forum Lounge throughout the event, running 20-23 August in Montreal, Quebec.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"mood-machine","title":"Mood Machine","description":"With unprecedented access and unsparing analysis, this is the definitive investigation into Spotify, weaving interviews with incisive cultural criticism, and illuminating how streaming has reshaped music for listeners and artists alike.Flush with testimony from over a hundred industry insiders, former Spotify employees, and musicians, Mood Machine takes us into the inner workings of the highly consolidated modern music business and how it has become personalized, playlisted, autoplayed, and algorithmic.With an expert’s eye, music journalist Liz Pelly reveals how Spotify’s two-sided marketplace—the listeners who pay with their dollars and data, and the musicians who provide the material powering it all—has changed music media forever. She also explores how musicians and listeners are coming together to fight this era of musical individualism and advocate for artists’ futures.","brand":"Well Read","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51411052986698,"sku":"ref902","price":26.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0840\/6496\/0842\/files\/moodmachine.jpg?v=1755556764"},{"product_id":"writing-on-raving","title":"Writing on Raving","description":"New York rave culture is having a moment. The music, mostly, is techno, certain flavors of which became the soundtrack to a dancefloor culture that is queer in a different way to house music-centered gay nightlife. Wark, Mak, and Beery want to document and annotate and celebrate, but also critique, this world in the making. Writing on Raving centers the New York scene, but isn’t limited to it.\nThis is a book for all of those who need the rave. Who need to dance. Who have at some point needed that beat in their lives. This is a book for all those who have journeyed through the night, through sound, through movement, through chemistry, into other places, other times, other encounters.\nContributors: hannah baer, Zoë Beery, Destiny Brundidge, Harry Burke, Ev Delafose, Zoey Greenwald, Isabelia Herrera, Kumi James, Zora Jade Khiry, Geoffrey Mak, madison moore, MORENXXX, Afsana Mousavi, Brittany Newell, MX Oops, E. R. Pulgar, Slant Rhyme, Gavilán Rayna Russom, Anne Lesley Selcer, Journey Streams, Linn Tonstad, cranberry thunderfunk, McKenzie Wark, Frankie Wiener, Simon Wu, Chris Zaldua.\n--\nSelected by McKenzie Wark for MUTEK Forum 2025.","brand":"Well Read","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51411053969738,"sku":"ref959","price":23.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0840\/6496\/0842\/files\/71o-r8iWVCL._UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1755604796"},{"product_id":"close-to-the-machine-technophilia-and-its-discontents","title":"Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents","description":"In 1997, the computer was still a relatively new tool---a sleek and unforgiving machine that was beyond the grasp of most users. 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Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent—but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Now, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, activist Alice Wong brings together this urgent, galvanizing collection of contemporary essays by disabled people.From Harriet McBryde Johnson’s account of her debate with Peter Singer over her own personhood to original pieces by authors like Keah Brown and Haben Girma; from blog posts, manifestos, and eulogies to Congressional testimonies, and beyond: this anthology gives a glimpse into the rich complexity of the disabled experience, highlighting the passions, talents, and everyday lives of this community. It invites readers to question their own understandings. It celebrates and documents disability culture in the now. It looks to the future and the past with hope and love.\n-- \nRecommended by Salome Asega for MUTEK Forum 2025. ","brand":"Well Read","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51585865908554,"sku":"ref1087","price":20.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0840\/6496\/0842\/files\/alice_wong.jpg?v=1755556000"},{"product_id":"if-on-a-winters-night-a-traveler","title":"If On A Winter's Night A Traveler","description":"If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingly back to the great age of narration—\"when time no longer seemed stopped and did not yet seem to have exploded.\" Italo Calvino's novel is in one sense a comedy in which the two protagonists, the Reader and the Other Reader, ultimately end up married, having almost finished If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. In another, it is a tragedy, a reflection on the difficulties of writing and the solitary nature of reading. The Reader buys a fashionable new book, which opens with an exhortation: \"Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade.\" Alas, after 30 or so pages, he discovers that his copy is corrupted, and consists of nothing but the first section, over and over. Returning to the bookshop, he discovers the volume, which he thought was by Calvino, is actually by the Polish writer Bazakbal. Given the choice between the two, he goes for the Pole, as does the Other Reader, Ludmilla. But this copy turns out to be by yet another writer, as does the next, and the next.The real Calvino intersperses 10 different pastiches—stories of menace, spies, mystery, premonition—with explorations of how and why we choose to read, make meanings, and get our bearings or fail to. Meanwhile the Reader and Ludmilla try to reach, and read, each other. If on a Winter's Night is dazzling, vertiginous, and deeply romantic. \"What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.\"\n--\nRecommended by Ana Brzezińska for MUTEK Forum 2025. ","brand":"Well Read","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51585866006858,"sku":"ref1088","price":20.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0840\/6496\/0842\/files\/italo.jpg?v=1755555876"},{"product_id":"let-me-tell-you-what-i-mean-an-essay-collection","title":"Let Me Tell You What I Mean: An Essay Collection","description":"From one of our most iconic and influential writers: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, politics, California robber barons, women, and her own self-doubt.\n--\nRecommended by Ana Brzezińska for MUTEK Forum 2025.","brand":"Well Read","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51585866105162,"sku":"ref1089","price":18.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0840\/6496\/0842\/files\/joan.jpg?v=1755555812"},{"product_id":"meeting-the-shadow","title":"Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature","description":"The authors offers exploration of self and practical guidance dealing with the dark side of personality based on Jung's concept of \"shadow,\" or the forbidden and unacceptable feelings and behaviors each of us experience. --  Recommended by Libby Heaney for MUTEK Forum 2025","brand":"Well Read","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51585866203466,"sku":"ref1090","price":23.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0840\/6496\/0842\/files\/meetingtheshadow.jpg?v=1755555320"},{"product_id":"ours-to-hack-and-to-own","title":"Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet","description":"Real democracy and the Internet are not mutually exclusive.\nHere, for the first time in one volume, are some of the most cogent thinkers and doers on the subject of the cooptation of the Internet, and how we can resist and reverse the process. The activists who have put together Ours to Hack and to Own argue for a new kind of online economy: platform cooperativism, which combines the rich heritage of cooperatives with the promise of 21st-century technologies, free from monopoly, exploitation, and surveillance.\nThe on-demand economy is reversing the rights and protections workers fought for centuries to win. Ordinary Internet users, meanwhile, retain little control over their personal data. While promising to be the great equalizers, online platforms have often exacerbated social inequalities. Can the Internet be owned and governed differently? What if Uber drivers set up their own platform, or if a city's residents controlled their own version of Airbnb? This book shows that another kind of Internet is possible—and that, in a new generation of online platforms, it is already taking shape.\nIncluded in this volume are contributions from Michel Bauwens, Yochai Benkler, Francesca Bria, Susie Cagle, Miriam Cherry, Ra Criscitiello, John Duda, Marina Gorbis, Karen Gregory, Seda Gürses, Steven Hill, Dmytri Kleiner, Vasilis Kostakis, Brendan Martin, Micky Metts, Kristy Milland, Mayo Fuster Morell, Jessica Gordon Nembhard, Rachel O’Dwyer, Janelle Orsi, Michael Peck, Carmen Rojas, Douglas Rushkoff, Saskia Sassen, Juliet Schor, Palak Shah, Tom Slee, Danny Spitzberg, Arun Sundararajan, Astra Taylor, Cameron Tonkinwise, McKenzie Wark, and Caroline Woolard.\n--\nSelected by Austin Robey for MUTEK Forum 2025.","brand":"Well Read","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51589404524874,"sku":"ref1091","price":23.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0840\/6496\/0842\/files\/81mQuibdZ1L._UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1755604834"}],"url":"https:\/\/wellread.pt\/collections\/radical-recommendations-mutek-2025.oembed","provider":"Well Read","version":"1.0","type":"link"}