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General Bibliography
Alan Holden and Pnylis 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 Proliferation of Margins, (Translated by Richard Gardner & Sybil Walker, Semiotext(e) 10 Italy (New York, 1990), recovered from Internet Archive:http://replay.web.archive.org/20011116020756/http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/3374/guattari2.html the_proliferation_of_margins...._felix_guattari_.pdf
Erwin Schrödinger, What is Life, 1944 http://whatislife.stanford.edu/LoCo_files/What-is-Life.pdf
Claudia Mongrini The art of critique in the age of precarious sensibility
Franco 'Bifo' Berardi, Transmediale 2011, Berlin; Panel: Life at Work: Bioeconomy and the Crisis of Cognitive Capitalism, 05.02.2011: http://vimeo.com/20198222
Dark Materials http://xxn.org.uk/doku.php?id=decrystallization:dark_materials_text
Decrystallization workshop: impressionistic video
Project Related Resources
- Recycling
- Recycling of gold from electronics: Cost-effective use through ‘Design for Recycling’, Gold Bulletin, 2010.Design for Recycling
- Sheng, P. Recovery of gold from computer circuit board scrap using aqua regia 2007 Recovery of gold
- Hydrometallurgical Process for Extraction of Metals from Electronic Waste Extraction of Metals from Electronic Waste 2009
- Afterlife video documentary
- Water Crystal Cryptography: Dr. Masaru Emoto - The Hidden Messages in Water (kc)
- high heat 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)
