Chaos (overviews & introductions)
Print:
- Chaos: A Very Short Introduction by Leonard A. Smith
- More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York’s Year of Anarchy by Thai Jones, Jennifer Spanier
- The Chaos Imperative: How Chance and Disruption Increase Innovation, Effectiveness, and Success by Ori Brafman
- The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow
Online:
Riot!: Controlled Chaos of the Hive Mind
Print:
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds by Charles MacKay
- Radical L.A.: From Coxey’s Army to the Watts Riots, 1894-1965 by Errol Wayne Stevens
- Psychological Degenerations in the Behavior & Manifestations of the Crowds by Gustave Le Bon
- Crowds and Power by Elias Canetti, Carol Stewart
- Rivers of Blood, Years of Darkness: The Unforgettable Classic Account of the Watts Riot by Robert E. Conot
Online:
- “Riots” – Encyclopedia
- “Sociology: Understanding and Changing the Social World, Comprehensive Edition, v. 1.0” – Flatworldknowledge.com
- “Crowd Behavior and Psychology” – Crowd Behavior
- “Brief History of Riot Control” – TIME Magazine
Chaos as Cosmogony: Stuff (Shit) from Stufflessness (shitlessness)
Print:
- A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by Karen Armstrong
- Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor by Joseph Campbell
- The Whole Shebang A State-of-the-Universe(s) Report by Timothy Ferris
- A History of Knowledge: Past, Present, and Future by Charles Van Doren
Online:
- “Marduk Creates the World from the Spoils of Battle” – Creation Stories from Around the World
- “Myths of Creation Theogony and Cosmogony” – maicar.com
Billions of Years of Chaos that shaped Earth—50 Years to Figure it Out
Print:
- Supervolcano: The Catastrophic Event That Changed the Course of Human History: Could Yellowstone Be Next by John Savino, Marie D. Jones
- When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time by Michael J. Benton
- Oxygen: The Molecule That Made the World by Nick Lane
- Oxygen: A Four Billion Year History by Donald E. Canfield
- T. Rex and the Crater of Doom by Walter Alvarez
Online:
- “Late Pleistocene Human Population Bottlenecks, Volcanic Winter, and Differentiation of Modern Humans” by Professor Stanley H. Ambrose – Bradshaw Foundation
- “Explosive Eruption of Coal and Basalt and the End-Permian Mass Extinction” by Darcy Ogdena and Norman Sleep – Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- “Life in the Sea Found Its Fate in a Paroxysm of Extinction” – New York Times
- “Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth’s Ancient Atmosphere” – National Academies Press
- “Life of the Carboniferous” – University of California Museum of Paleontology
Chaos Theory : The Lies Pop-Culture Told Us
Print:
- Chaos: The Making of a New Science by James Gleick
- The Essence of Chaos by Edward N. Lorenz
- The Unnatural Nature of Science: Why Science Does Not Make (Common) Sense by Lewis Wolpert
- Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics: Hollywood’s Best Mistakes, Goofs and Flat-Out Destructions of the Basic Laws of the Universe by Tom Rogers
Online:
- “Chaos” – Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- “Whatever Happened to… Chaos Theory?” – Discovery Magazine
- “What is Chaos Theory?” – Fractal Foundation
- “The Meaning of the Butterfly” – Boston Globe
How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love The Flamethrower Aimed At the Face
Print:
- Fire and Ashes: On the Frontlines of American Wildfire by John Maclean
- Fire by Sebastian Junger
Online:
- “Terrorism as Art: Mark Pauline’s Dangerous Machines” by Jesse Hicks – The Verge
- “Dance Dance Revolution. With Flamethrowers. Pointed At You.” – BoingBoing
- “Dance Dance Immolation to light up Burning Man festival” – joystiq.com
Anarchy in the (12th Century) UK
Print:
- Empress Matilda: Queen Consort, Queen Mother and Lady of the English by Marjorie Chibnall
- King Stephen, 1135-1154 by R.H.C. Davis
- Henry I by C. Warren Hollister, Amanda Clark Frost
- William of Malmesbury: Historia Novella: The Contemporary History by William of Malmesbury, Edmund King (Translator), K. R. Potter
- The Anglo Saxon Chronicles: The Monks Of The Monasteries Of Winchester, Canterbury, Peterborough, Abingdon And Worcester by Michael Wanton
- The Annals of Roger de Hoveden by Henry Riley
Online:
For each salon, we invite our speakers to share the resources and interesting reading they came across in researching their talk, so that we can all dig more deeply. This reading list was compiled by Odd Salon with Jade Hoffman, Miles Traer, KC Crowell and Marcelo Pontin. Thank you!
