====The Crystal World Reader ====

[[the_crystal_world:ctm12:reader|The Crystal World Reader v.01]]

**v.02 forthcoming**

==== General Bibliography ====

Alan Holden and Phylis Morrison //Crystals and Crystal Growing//

Robert Smithson //Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings// 1979

Georgius Agricola //De Re Metallica//  1556

JG Ballard, //The Crystal World// 1966


Felix Guattari,  {{:the_crystal_world:techniques:the_proliferation_of_margins...._felix_guattari_.pdf|The Proliferation of Margins}} 1990

Erwin Schrödinger, [[http://whatislife.stanford.edu/LoCo_files/What-is-Life.pdf|What is Life]] 1944 

Claudia Mongrini  [[http://th-rough.eu/writers/mongini-eng/art-critique-age-precarious-sensibility|The art of critique in the age of precarious sensibility]] 2011

Franco 'Bifo' Berardi, Transmediale 2011, Berlin; [[http://vimeo.com/20198222|Life at Work: Bioeconomy and the Crisis of Cognitive Capitalism]] 2011

Jonathan Kemp [[http://xxn.org.uk/doku.php?id=decrystallization:dark_materials_text|Dark Materials]] 2011

Decrystallization workshop: [[http://xxn.org.uk/doku.php?id=decrystallization:video|impressionistic video]] 2011

Erkki Kurenniemi  [[http://www.ubu.com/film/kur_electronics.html|Electronics in the World of Tomorrow]] 1964


==== Project Related Resources ====

  * Recycling
     *//Recycling of gold from electronics: Cost-effective use through ‘Design for Recycling’// [[http://xxn.org.uk/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=hageluken_3_43.pdf|Design for Recycling]] 2010
     * [[http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/planet-2/report/2005/10/recyclingelectronicwasteindiachinafull.pdf|Recycling electronic waste in India & China]] 2005
     *Sheng, P. //Recovery of gold from computer circuit board scrap using aqua regia// 2007 {{:the_crystal_world:techniques:waste_manag_res-2007-sheng-380-3.pdf|Recovery of gold }}
     * //Hydrometallurgical Process for Extraction of Metals from Electronic Waste// [[http://www.metalurgija.org.rs/mjom/vol15/No%204/3_Kamberovic_MJoM_1504.pdf|Extraction of Metals from Electronic Waste]] 2009
     *[[http://www.thefutureschannel.com/dockets/hands-on_math/recycling_computers|Recycling computers documentary]] 2007
     *[[http://youtu.be/wmSTt69tsaA|Afterlife]] video documentary


  * Water Crystal Cryptography
      *Dr. Masaru Emoto - //The Hidden Messages in Water// 

  * Synthetic Geology
       *Microwave smelting: http://www.rexresearch.com/hwang/hwang.htm and http://www.periodictable.com/PopSci/2003/09/1/index.html. David Reid Technique (1000°C) http://home.c2i.net/metaphor/mvpage.html and 1200°C kit http://home.c2i.net/metaphor/rt.html - extended tests with various susceptors - materials which heat up when exposed to microwaves - was that two substances, graphite and magnetite, working together were required to achieve the kind of heating required. See also http://open3dp.me.washington.edu/?p=632

  * Diy FET transistors
        *General early semi-conductor resource: http://n4trb.com/AmateurRadio/SemiconductorHistory/SemiconductorDocuments.htm, and also: plan from old amateur radio magazine (jk to scan)