Texxts
These texxts have all contributed to the development of texx as my epistemontology.
Cyber
- Zeroes + Ones: Digital Women + the New Technoculture by Sadie Plant
- Future Looms: Weaving Women and Cybernetics by Sadie Plant
- A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century
- Writing the Implosion: Teaching the World One Thing at a Time by Joseph Dumit
- The Sexual Life of Patterns by Edie Fake
Techne (Textiles and Architecture)
- The Textility of Making by Tim Ingold
- Materials Against Materiality by Tim Ingold
- On Weaving by Anni Albers
- Handloom Weaving by Luther Hooper
- Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction edited by Lynne Cooke
- The Primary Structures of Fabrics by Irene Emery
- The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander
- A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander
Archaeology and Anthroplogy
- The Stone and the Thread: Roots of Andean Abstraction by César Paternosto
- Symmetry Comes of Age: the Role of Pattern in Culture edited by Dorothy Washburn and Donald Crowe
- The Social Life of Numbers: A Quechua Philosophy of Numbers and Philosophy of Arithmetic by Gary Urton
Philosophy, Psychology, and Cognition
- Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
- Difference and Repetition by Gilles Deleuze
- Metamagical Themas by Douglas Hofstadter
- I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter
- Liber Indigo: the Affordances of Magic by James Kirkwood
- Most of the content of this book can be found in his Youtube videos.
- Great for learning about how interface dictates thought.
- Cognitive Tools for Making the Invisible Visible by Judy Fan
- This is a great YouTube video from a cognitive science professor at Stanford.