Hex’s Library

Culture and Society

Essays on aspects of modern life, and interviews.

• 1830s
  The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee — Honoré de Balzac
• 1920
  Open Bookcases — Robert Benchley
• 1937
  The Informative Content of Education — H. G. Wells
• 1969
  He Rockets Into the Past — Mike Royko
• 1974
  Vertex Interviews Philip K. Dick
• 1978
  How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later — Philip K. Dick
• 1978
  Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One’s Books — Georges Perec
• 1993
  Skylights: The Fluorescent Conspiracy — Steve Baer
• 1994
  Overcoming Tourism — Hakim Bey
• 1995
  Shiny, Aluminium, Plastic, and Digital — Negativland
• 1995
  Tenets of Free Appropriation — Negativland
• 1995
  The Unacceptable Face of Plagiarism? — Brian Duguid

Cyberculture

A selection of classic speculative pieces from thirty years of the emerging culture of the Internet. With hindsight many are hopelessly naïve, but it was an exciting time to witness.

• 1984
  An Apple For The Captain — Steve Wozniak
• 1986
  The Conscience of a Hacker (The Hacker Manifesto) — The Mentor
• 1987
  Cyberpunks — Dr. Timothy Leary
• 1987
  Huxley, Hesse and The Cybernetic Society — Dr. Timothy Leary and Eric Gullichsen
• 1990
  Cyberspace ’90 — William Gibson
• 1992
  The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto — Timothy C. May
• 1993
  A Cypherpunk's Manifesto — Eric Hughes
• 1996
  A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace — John Perry Barlow
• 2010
  The Blast Shack — Bruce Sterling
• 2012
  We, the Web Kids — Piotr Czerski
• 2012
  The IRL Fetish — Nathan Jurgenson

Philosophy

• 2002
  Why You Should Not Be A Unitarian Universalist — Rev. Dr. Tony Larsen

Chemistry

• 1935
  Poppy and Mandragora — Aldous Huxley
• 1968
  The Declaration of Evolution — Timothy Leary
• 1991
  The Philosophy Behind the Writing of PIHKAL — Alexander Shulgin

Fiction

• 1846
  Club des Haschischins — Théophile Gautier
• 1884
  Flatland — Edwin A. Abbott
• 1941
  Library of Babel — Jorge Luis Borges
• 1953
  The Nine Billion Names of God — Arthur C. Clarke
• 1956
  The Last Question — Isaac Asimov
• 1958
  The Feeling of Power — Isaac Asimov
• 1969
  Super-Toys Last All Summer Long — Brian Aldiss
• 1987
  Universal Library — Willard van Orman Quine

Poetry

• 1936
  Night Mail — W. H. Auden
• 1955
  Howl — Allen Ginsberg
• 1969
  Smokey the Bear Sutra — Gary Snyder
• 2002
  Exascender Geseafaria — Anonymous
• 2004
  Eurydice — Sue Hubbard

Software and Technology

• 1984
  The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech — John Gordon
• 1996
  The Meta-Content Framework and Apple HotSauce

Reference

• 2000s
  The PKDicktionary — Philip K. Dick

Miscellany

• 2000s
  The Orb's Samples — Alex Patterson
• 1985
  Statement to Congress — Frank Zappa
• 1992
  Excerpts from "Expert Judgement on Markers to Deter Inadvertent Human Intrusion into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant" — Various