Below is a very incomplete, inexhaustive list of theories, texts and other media that inspire us in this work.

(And vastly expanded, interactive, thematically explorable version of this is in the works)

• adrienne maree brown. Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good. Chico, CA: AK Press, 2020.
• Alva Noë. Action in Perception. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004.
• Andy Clark. Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.
• Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015.
• Antonio Damasio. The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures. New York: Pantheon Books, 2017.
• Audre Lorde. Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power. Brooklyn: Out & Out Books, 1978.
• Barbara Ehrenreich. Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2006.
• Bayo Akomolafe. Dancing with Mountains and The Emergence Network. bayoakomolafe.net, dancingwithmountains.com, emergencenetwork.org.
• Chiara Marletto. The Science of Can and Can’t: A Physicist’s Journey Through the Land of Counterfactuals. London: Penguin, 2021.
• Daisy Hildyard. The Second Body. London: Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2017.
• David Deutsch. The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes and Its Implications. London: Allen Lane, 1997.
• David Graeber. Debt: The First 5,000 Years. Brooklyn: Melville House, 2011.
• David Graeber and David Wengrow. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
• Donna J. Haraway. “A Cyborg Manifesto.” The Socialist Review 80, 1985: 65–108.
• Donna J. Haraway. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.
• Douglas Hofstadter. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. New York: Basic Books, 1979.
• Douglas Hofstadter. I Am a Strange Loop. New York: Basic Books, 2007.
• Ecuador. Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador, Articles 71–74 (Rights of Nature). 2008.
• Erik Davis. TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information. New York: Harmony Books, 1998.
• Erwin Schrödinger. What is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1944.
• Ferris Jabr. Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life. New York: Random House, 2024.
• Gabriel Popkin. “A Soil-Science Revolution Upends Plans to Fight Climate Change.” Quanta Magazine, July 27, 2021.
• George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. Metaphors We Live By. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.
• György Buzsáki. Rhythms of the Brain. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
• György Buzsáki. The Brain from Inside Out. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
• Helen Czerski. The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2023.
• Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela. Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1980.
• James Bridle. Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
• James C. Scott. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.
• James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis. “Atmospheric homeostasis by and for the biosphere: the Gaia hypothesis.” Tellus XXVI, 1974.
• Jane Hirshfield. The Asking. New York: Knopf, 2023.
• Jeff Hawkins. A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence. New York: Basic Books, 2021.
• Jeremy England. Every Life Is on Fire: How Thermodynamics Explains the Origins of Living Things. New York: Basic Books, 2020.
• Jeremy Narby. Intelligence in Nature: An Inquiry into Knowledge. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2006.
• Jorge Luis Borges. The Book of Imaginary Beings. Translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni. New York: Viking Press, 1969. Originally published in 1957.
• Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie. The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect. New York: Basic Books, 2018.
• Karen Bakker. The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technology Is Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and Plants. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022.
• Kevin Mitchell. Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023.
• Lee Cronin, Sara Walker, and others. “Assembly Theory”. Nature, 2023.
• Margaret A. Boden. The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms. London: Routledge, 2004.
• Meghan O’Gieblyn. God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning. New York: Doubleday, 2021.
• Michael Levin. The Levin Lab.
• N. Katherine Hayles. How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
• Neil Postman. Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.
• Nick Lane. The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2015.
• Nora Bateson. Combining. Axminster: Triarchy Press, 2023.
• Paul Edwards. The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996.
• Peter Godfrey-Smith. Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
• Raymond Noble and Denis Noble. Understanding Living Systems. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
• Robert Macfarlane. Is a River Alive?. London: Hamish Hamilton, 2025.
• Robin Wall Kimmerer. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2013.
• Robin Wall Kimmerer. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2003.
• Ruha Benjamin. Imagination: A Manifesto. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2024.
• Satish Kumar. Interviewed by Richard Dawkins for “Enemies of Reason.” Channel 4, 2007. youtube.com.
• Silvia Federici. Caliban and the Witch: Women, The Body, And Primitive Accumulation. New York: Autonomedia, 2004.
• Stanisław Lem. Solaris. Warsaw: 1961. English translation: New York: Harcourt, 2002. Also: Andrei Tarkovsky, Solaris (film), 1972.
• Stephon Alexander. The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe. New York: Basic Books, 2016.
• Suzanne Simard. Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
• Sy Montgomery. The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness. New York: Atria Books, 2015.
• Tyson Yunkaporta. Right Story, Wrong Story: Adventures in Indigenous Thinking. Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2023.
• Tyson Yunkaporta. Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World. San Francisco: HarperOne, 2020.
• Ursula Franklin. The Real World of Technology. CBC Massey Lectures. Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 1990.
• Ursula K. LeGuin. “The Author of the Acacia Seeds.” In The Compass Rose. New York: Harper & Row, 1982.
• Ursula K. LeGuin. “The Marrow.” In Hard Words and Other Poems. New York: Harper & Row, 1981.
• Ursula K. LeGuin. “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.” In The Wind’s Twelve Quarters, 275–284. New York: Harper & Row, 1975.
• Vanessa Machado de Oliveira. Outgrowing Modernity: Navigating Complexity, Complicity, and Collapse with Accountability and Compassion. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 2024.
• Vine Deloria Jr. Evolution, Creationism, And Other Modern Myths. Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing, 2002.
• Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez. Let’s Become Fungal!: Mycelium Teachings and the Arts. Amsterdam: Valiz, 2023.
• Zoë Schlanger. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth. New York: Harper, 2024.