Resources
Everything the school draws on to run sessions: readings, films, videos, podcasts, primary sources, and the archives and shows they come from. The material itself lives inside each theme (sorted by lens); the pages here are cross-cutting views that let you find things by format, by author, or all at once.
How to use these files
There are two big-picture views and five by-format indexes. Pick by what you’re doing:
Exploring or discovering
- Sources to explore — the top-level archives, libraries, publishers, podcast shows, and channels the school draws on. Start here when you want to wander and find your own way in.
- All resources — every specific item (text, episode, film, document) in one searchable table. Start here when you want to scan the whole collection or check whether something is already used.
Planning a session (find the right kind of thing for the room)
- Readings by author — books, pamphlets, and articles, indexed alphabetically by author
- Primary sources — manifestos, speeches, documents, archives, and oral histories
- Films and documentaries — feature-length works to screen
- Videos and lectures — shorter online explainers, lecture courses, and video essays
- Podcasts — ongoing shows and single episodes worth knowing about
Every item shows which theme and lens it’s used in, so you can click from any table back to the session context where it lives.
How these pages work
The tables on these pages are generated automatically from the resources tagged in each theme’s files — so they’re always in sync and you never edit the tables by hand. If you edit a table directly, your change will be overwritten on the next build.
Adding a resource
- A specific item (one text, episode, film) → the
resources:frontmatter of the theme lens it best fits. - An item not tied to a theme yet →
_extra.yaml. - A whole source (an archive, library, publisher, show, or channel) →
_sources.yaml.
The full field reference — valid format, kind, and access values, with examples — is in the contributing guide. After a change is merged, the tables regenerate on their own.
A note on access
Many of the resources the school uses are available freely online. Others require library access, purchase, or subscription. The school does not host or distribute copyrighted material. When a reading is paywalled or only available in print, the school links to a publisher page and notes the situation.
For groups in places without good library access, consider building relationships with sympathetic librarians, university interlibrary loan systems, and free online archives (the Internet Archive, the Marxists Internet Archive, the Anarchist Library). Mutual aid for book access is a part of how the school sustains itself.