Zines and Computational Publishing Practices: A Countercultural Primer by Kendal Beynon [Read here] 
This paper explores the parallels between historical zine culture and contemporary DIY computational publishing practices. 
 

Zines in Third Space: Radical Cooperation and Borderlands Rhetoric. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. By Licona, A.C. (2013).  [Read here] 
Licona explores how borderlands rhetorics function in feminist and queer of-colour zines to challenge dominant knowledges as well as normativitising mis/representations. 
 

From Feminist Servers to Feminist Federation by Mara Karagianna, Nate Wessalowski (2023) [Read here] 
Investigating practices of weaving feminist networks of solidarity and care in the age of hybrid on- and offline world-making. 
 

From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism. By Turner, Fred. University of Chicago Press, (2006). [Read here] 
Tracing the previously untold story of a highly influential group of San Francisco Bay–area entrepreneurs: Stewart Brand and the Whole Earth network. 

Folklore and the internet: Vernacular Expression in a Digital World by Blank, T.J. (2009) 
A pioneering examination of the folkloric qualities of the World Wide Web, e-mail, and related digital media. 
 

Digital Folklore: [To computer users, with love and respect]. By Lialina, O., Espenschied, D. and Buerger, M. (2009) 
A collection of essays and projects investigating many different facets of Digital Folklore: online amateur culture, DIY electronics, dirtstyle, typonihilism, memes, teapots etc. 
 

NEW AGE GRAVE by Bibliomancers (2025) 
This book will help reprogram your human biocomputer as you astral travel to the realms of psychoplasmaics, energy healing, etheric biofeedback technology, UFOlogy, interspecies telepathic communications, and beyond! 
 

LAN Party: Inside the Multiplayer Revolution by Merritt K (2024) 
A loving photographic celebration of the energy-drink-fuelled, furniture-rearranging, multiplayer gaming trend and its nocturnal participants. 
 

Amateurs!: How We Built Internet Culture and Why it Matters by Joanna Walsh 
A scintillating philosophical history of the internet which examines how and why creativity became the price of digital existence. 
 

Maisa in Webland: Detouring UX Destinies by Maisa Imamović 
Imamović embarks on a philosophical and practice-based crusade through the internet’s surface and its shadows to expose the various ways of thriving online. 
 

The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet by The Dark Forest Collective 
A book about how to survive on the internet. It’s about the cozy web, the dark web, the dark forest, the clear net, the dark net, and a new social world emerging around us. 
 

Becoming the Product: The Critical Internet Researcher as a Virtual Intellectual by Morgane Billuart 
This essay delves into the diverse strategies internet researchers adopt to share their work and sustain their careers more or less independently in today's era defined by the attention economy. 
 

POSTPOSTPOST: Reflections on a New Avant-garde by Al Hassan Elwen, Ruba Al-Sweel 
Attempts to capture a kind of contemporary literature and scholarship that expresses a general dissatisfaction towards the self-effacing on-going lore and neologism-coining/brand narratives of “end times” that the intelligentsias often indulge. 
 

PARALLAX: Conspiracy Theories, Details, and the Act of Looking Closely by Ellie Wyatt 
A curated series of texts and visual works which investigates how conspiracy theories are facilitated by urgent technological advances, the legacies of detailed modes of sight, and the circle as a magical and scientific tool. 
 

Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure by Ingrid Burrington (2016) 
A smart, funny, beautifully illustrated field guide to the Internet - from manhole coverings to sidewalk spray-paint to carrier hotels, Networks of New York reveals the pieces of the Internet that are hiding in plain sight.