Finding inspiration
There are people that have inspired me to see new things, and to take action in new ways. Here I have collected a number of books, articles, and websites that, in one way or another, have pointed me in the right direction.
Books
Active hope: How to face the mess we’re in with unexpected resilience and creative power by Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone
Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning by Karen Barad
A World of Many Worlds edited by Marisol de la Cadena and Mario Blaser
Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More than Human Worlds by María Puig de la Bellacasa
Resonance: A Sociology of Our Relationship to the World by Hartmut Rosa
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
Staying with the trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene by Donna Haraway
Trickster Makes This World by Lewis Hyde
Becoming Baba Yaga: Trickster, Feminist, and Witch of the Woods by Kris Spisak
Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence by Timothy Morton
In the Dust of This Planet by Eugene Thacker
Play and the Human Condition by Thomas S. Henricks
Many Splendored Things: Thinking Sex and Play by Susanna Paasonen
Production of Presence: What Meaning Cannot Convey by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
Politics of Affect by Brian Massumi
Politics of Touch: Sense, Movement, Sovereignty by Erin Manning
Transitions by William Bridges
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture by Daniel Maté and Gabor Maté
Other things to read and engage with
Powers of Resistance: Ideology and Affect: A Interview with Brian Massumi by Yubraj Aryal
The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin
Dear white people by Bayo Akomolafe
Bringing in the Work of Nature: From Natural Capital to Hybrid Labor by Alyssa Battistoni
Co-creating with the more-than-human by Kincentric Leadership and The Repatterning Collective
Guide to Making a Personal Reparations Plan by Hilary Giovale