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--- events:reading-group [2025/11/04 21:22] – [Suggested Reads] danmw
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 ====== Reading Group ======
-This page exists to track dates, suggestions, and past topics for our reading group. The reading group is open to both Hackspace members and the general public - if you think you might be interested in discussing our current read, you're welcome to join in!
+This page exists to track dates, suggestions, and past topics for our reading group. The reading group is open to both hackerspace members and the general public - if you think you might be interested in discussing our current read, you're welcome to join in!
 ==== Organisation ====
-Meetings of the reading group are held ''<insert-schedule-here>''.
+Meetings of the reading group are held **at 7 pm on the first Monday of each month.**
-** The next meeting of the reading group will be: ** //In the future.//
+** The next meeting of the reading group will be: ** //Monday the 2nd of February//
-** We are currently reading: ** //Nothing.// :(
+** We are currently reading: ** [[https://thisisforeveryone.timbl.com/|This Is For Everyone - Tim Berners-Lee]] - in principle the first few chapters, but feel free to investigate chapters that take your interest!
-Reading group topics are voted on in our [[https://discord.gg/b9h36uyssD|discord server]]. We welcome a range of suggested reading material, from the technical to the political, to the fictional. Members should feel free to directly update the suggested reads list below. Those without wiki editing perissions are encouraged to suggest topics in the reading group channel on the discord server.
+Reading group topics are voted on in our [[https://discord.gg/b9h36uyssD|discord server]]. We welcome a range of suggested reading material, on technical, social, and political topics. Members should feel free to directly update the suggested reads list below. Those without wiki editing permissions are encouraged to suggest topics in the reading group channel on the discord server.
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 Where suggested books are available for free, the links below will take you somewhere you can read them. For books where this is not the case, the link will take you to the publisher's page, author's page, or an ISBN search.
-  * [[https://monoskop.org/images/c/cb/Read_Me_ASCII_Culture_and_the_Revenge_of_Knowledge_Filtered_by_Nettime_1999.pdf|Readme! ASCII Culture and the Revenge of Knowledge - Nettime]]
   * [[https://isbnsearch.org/isbn/9780241621301|Doppelganger - Naomi Klein]]
   * [[https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv249sg9w|Data Power: Radical Geographies of Control and Resistance - Jim E. Thatcher & Craig M. Dalton]]
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   * [[https://isbnsearch.org/isbn/9781915294517|How to Fall in Love with the Future: A Time Traveller's Guide to Changing the World - Rob Hopkins]]
   * [[https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2862-amateurs|Amateurs!: How We Built Internet Culture and Why It Matters - Joanna Walsh]]
+  * [[https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/451795/technofeudalism-by-varoufakis-yanis/9781529926095|Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism - Yanis Varoufakis]]
 ==== Previously Read ====
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 The below titles have already featured in our reading group. Follow the links, where they exist, to see our discussion pages.
-  * ...nothing yet. Watch this space!
+  * [[https://monoskop.org/images/c/cb/Read_Me_ASCII_Culture_and_the_Revenge_of_Knowledge_Filtered_by_Nettime_1999.pdf|Readme! ASCII Culture and the Revenge of Knowledge - Nettime]]