The Survival Scrapbooks are a series of six books published in the early-1970s covering different aspects of autonomous living from a practical perspective.  Several authors contributed to the series, often with additional input from others.  The titles in the series, and their authors, were:

volume 1: Shelter, 1972 - Stefan Szczelkun
contents: different forms of wild, mobile, or simple-to-build accommodation including caves, hand-made tents, wooden huts, and vans.

Four years ago Mute published Anthony Davies and Simon Ford's influential article 'Culture Clubs' (Mute18), a piece which surveyed the landscape of partnerships and alliances between business, art and politics that was shaping the late '90s culture of convergence. Today, in the wake of the dotcom crash, September 11th, the 'War on Terror', and Enron, we have seen the (re)emergence of some less euphoric, more risk-averse tendencies.

George Caffentzis analyses contemporary energy politics: is US national energy independence enough?

A special section on the politics of precarious labour, including:

Precari-us? > Angela Mitropoulos on the use and misuse of the notion of precariousness as applied to the conditions of labour under neoliberalism

The production and development of open source software (OSS) has received substantial attention recently, following the success of projects like Apache, Perl and Linux. But what are the real dynamics of this ‘new’ mode of production?

Peter Drahos and John Braithwaite on how the US has used bilateral deals to secure its predominance in the information economy

Zoe Young explores post-war issues in the Middle East

In 1996, a family of squatters died, demolished along with their Beirut home by the private company reconstructing the post-war city.

The Global Environment Facility is a subtle weapon in the arsenal of state-backed globalisation. While ostensibly implementing environmentally-friendly development in the South, its long-term effect is to identify new resources for less-than-green corporate exploitation and to increase developing countries’ indebtedness to organisations like the World Bank and IMF.

Thomkins Square Park, New York. The pungent odour of fresh garlic saturates the nearby atmosphere. A bright orange truck marked in large letters with the words ‘Trade for Garlic’ is attracting the attention of passersby. They stop to examine its contents, harangued by the traders who stand by the truck exhorting members of the public to ‘get garlic!’

At the Tate Modern's Border Crossing seminar, the artist/activist approaches of panelists Heath Bunting and Florian Schneider threw divergent light on the politics of migration.

Hari Kunzru reviews One Market Under God

The media interest that surrounded dotcom mania was perhaps as short-lived and skin deep as the supposed economic miracle itself.

From Aaron Lynch’s Thought Contagion to Seth Godin’s Idea Virus, the proliferation of interest in media spin-cycles, viral marketing, corporate memetics and cultural contagions suggests that the infective model has itself become a craze.