Welcome to our Convergent Media Foundational Texts page! Here we have compiled a list of texts that we feel best represent the core of what it means to be a modern day Converger. We hope you enjoy perusing these documents and we encourage you to look into the other works published by these groundbreaking theorists over the years.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
https://www.summum.us/mummification/tbotd/
Borderlands/ La Frontera
Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm
Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Being Digital
Psychology of the Digital Age: Humans Become Electric
Permanent Record: Edward Snowden
Why Hackers Win: Power and Disruption in the Network Society
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Forms of Capital
https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/fr/bourdieu-forms-capital.htm
Dream Interpretation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_interpretation
Egyptian Book of the Dead
https://www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/
How To Deconstruct Almost Anything
http://www.fudco.com/chip/deconstr.html
Karl Marx: The Theoretical Separation of the Domestic and the Economic
https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/nichols.htm
Postmodernism or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/jameson.htm
Theses on the Situationist International and Its Time
http://www.notbored.org/theses-on-the-SI.html
Falsifiability
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability
The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism
https://hermetic.com/bey/taz_cont
The Cyborg Manifesto (PDF)
http://people.oregonstate.edu/~vanlondp/wgss320/articles/haraway-cyborg-manifesto.pdf
Simulacra and Simulation (PDF)
http://www.metaphysicspirit.com/books/Simulacra%20and%20Simulation.pdf
Free Culture (PDF)
http://www.free-culture.cc/freeculture.pdf
The Hacker Ethic (PDF)