The content of the show relates to many real-life issues addressed in academic literature on asymmetric conflict, social movements, and imperial control. Please find relevant papers and books here.
How to blow up a pipeline by Andreas Malm (2021)
Gentlemanly Terrorists by Durba Ghosh (2017)
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela (1994)
Why Civil Resistance Works by Chenoweth and Stephan (2011)
Rivonia 1964 by Rachel Meager (2023)
Mayors in the Middle by Diana Greenwald (2025)
Triadic Coercion by Wendy Pearlman (2019)
Hamas Contained by Tareq Baconi (2018)
Statebuilder's Dilemma by David Lake (2015)
Proxy Wars by Berman and Lake (2018)
Small Wars, Big Data by Berman, Felter, and Shapiro (2018)
Rise and Kill First by Ronen Bergman (2018)
Operation Wrath of God by Aviva Guttman (2025)
The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins (2020)
Cobalt Red by Siddharth Kara (2023)
Twitter and Tear Gas by Zeynep Tufekci (2017)
Social Media Exposed by Alexei Abrahams (2026)
Enshittification by Cory Doctorow (2025)
Polarized and Demobilized by Dana El Kurd (2022)
Digital Authoritarianism by Marc Owen Jones (2022)
Active Measures by Thomas Rid (2020)
Nothing is True, Everything is Possible by Peter Pomerantsev (2015)
Hacking APIs by Corey Ball (2022)
Cybersecurity for Small Networks by Seth Enoka (2022)
Reign of the Empire by Alexander Freed
The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
In the Fog of the Season's End by Alex La Guma