Technocracy Literature
The Santaroga Barrier : Economic Genre Fiction (Frank Herbert) ---»
...The flurry (or slurry) of new, so-called Economic Genre Fiction books must… imperative here, must pay creed to its currently ignored origins. And, for many, Economic Genre fiction starts with the Santaroga Barrier by Frank Herbert. Sure sure sure.. Dune, we know. The Green Brain… excellent! but, off topic. No, in the Santaroga Barrier, Frank [...]
Insatiability: A Novel in Two Parts (Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz) ---»
...Insatiability. The defining term for the twentieth century. The ontological definition of consumer driven markets. Or rather, the ontological definition of a human in a consumer driven market. The novel Insatiability: the dictionary of the ontological definition of the human in a consumer driven market designed by the urge towards technocracy. Unfortunately, theres not much [...]
Memoirs Found in a Bathtub (Stanislaw Lem) ---»
...Stanislaw Lems Memoirs found in a Bathtub has got to be the best polish scifi of the middle century. Its like The Castle by Kafka but with technology, not crummy old villages. And its got confused people wandering around, trying to do stuff to the best of there ability, and failing miserably. But hey, thats [...]
