Mike Hales is a culture hacker (aka organiser), designer-maker, anthropologist, organic intellectual, dhamma practitioner: theory-of-practice geek . . I'm from Venus, what is it you do round here? aka barefoot doc.
Hales (2023), *Bootstrapping a college of conviviality*, proposal to the Trellis Foundation [pdf](https://share.mayfirst.org/s/6PfmYA9qJtSQnos) > A proposal for work very similar to this project in federated wiki; except that it majors on organising (a college), while this foprop project focuses on conversation and shared insight. This is more do-able - and survivable!
Hales 2018, * Every place is itself*, volume 2 of *Humble origins*, Seven Dials: Barefoot documents pdf 
Hales 2017, *Activists and the long march home - Class geography, conviviality, melancholy territory*,
Some prospects for libertarian socialist adventures, 2017, volume 3 of *Humble origins*, Seven Dials: Barefoot documents pdf
Hales 2016, *Location - Exploring power(s) and landscapes of design*, Seven Dials: Barefoot Documents pdf
> A collection of pieces from the 80s and 90s, around the theme of design location as *class location* and - as we would now say - design as design justice.
Hales (1982), *Science or society - The politics of the work of scientists*, Pan Books, companion to Channel 4 TV 'Crucible' series (reissued, Free Association Books). [pdf](https://share.mayfirst.org/s/6JTHtijHLyfDAE4) > This book examines the relationship between expert knowledge and society. Its chapters, which range widely over issues in the social relations of science, technology and medicine, consider ways in which this relationship can be transformed. Although no chapter goes very deeply into specialised arguments, each one provides a basis for further discussion, analysis and study. The book assumes no specialist background in science beyond secondary school. What it does assume is a personal experience of the contradictory and often oppressive nature of state and corporate institutions: office work, industry, the civil service, welfare agencies and at the very least, school.
Hales (1980), *Living thinkwork - Where do labour processes come from?*, CSE books [pdf 2016](https://share.mayfirst.org/s/bnaMSLpEofXneXg) > 'YOU'RE NOT PAIDTO THINK!' Whatever job you do, that message probably comesthrough loud and clear. In Living Thinkwork, 'a book for academics and workers', Mike Hales explores the deeper meanings of that experience of work as they affect the understanding of workers' struggles in-and-against capitalism. This unique 'analytical autobiography' is a travelogue of journeys in what the author calls class geography, of academic radicalism and professional employment inindustry in the late 1970s: life in the Rationality Factory.
Writer, culture hacker, designer-maker, anthropologist . . I'm from Venus, what is it you do round here? aka barefoot doc. Here's some story, some reflections, some back catalogue
Here we reproduce a piece by mike hales (July 2018). It appeared in the p2p foundation blog as *Platforms in a pluriverse - Half a dozen politicised modes of commoning*.
This wiki contains the text of a draft chapter for a book in honour of economist Robin Murray (Nov 2019). The draft is in five main sections with a short intro and coda. It includes thinking on the structure and principles of a 'college of conviviality' and a pattern language of activist practice.