In our interview with Tessa Carman,

and I asked her what books she would include if she were to organize a seminar for high schoolers and adults on the Machine. Are there any books that would you add to her list?

• Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings and “On Fairy-Stories”

• E.M. Forster, “The Machine Stops”

• C.S. Lewis, Cosmic Trilogy (esp. That Hideous Strength)

• Neil Postman, Technopoly

• Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society and Propaganda

• Mary Harrington
  , Feminism Against Progress

• Paul Kingsnorth
  Alexandria

• Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac

• Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society and Gender

• Matthew B. Crawford
  , Shop Class as Soulcraft, The World Beyond Your Head, Why We Drive

• Poetry of R.S. Thomas, Robinson Jeffers

• Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America and The Hidden Wound

• David Sax, The Revenge of Analog

• Alexander Langlands, Cræft

• Possibly Terry Gilliam’s Brazil