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Original titles explore technology, science, organizations, and human possibility through contemporary arguments and experience.

Unruly Editions revisit significant public-domain works with new forewords, annotations, and afterwords. The historical author remains at the center, while the new material examines the work’s arguments and connects them with questions we face today.

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December 2026

Last Old Man

Citizen Science in the AI Age

AI is opening scientific inquiry to people outside traditional institutions. Aging and the possibility of rejuvenation make the stakes personal.

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Announced for March 2027

Solomon's Genie

Technology. Symbiosis. Wisdom.

The intelligence we build may become part of who we are. Solomon's Genie asks how we preserve wisdom, identity, and judgment as our capabilities expand and our dependence on technology deepens.

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Unruly Editions

Significant public-domain works, republished with new forewords, annotations, and afterwords. The historical author remains at the center of each Unruly Edition.

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The History of the Standard Oil Company, Volume I cover
Volume I
The History of the Standard Oil Company, Volume II cover
Volume II
Patterns Repeat, Futures Diverge series
Old patterns. New intelligence. Different futures.
Available now in ebook

The History of the Standard Oil Company

Edited and Annotated by Mitch Kelly

A Two-Volume Unruly Edition

Tarbell’s investigation of Standard Oil, read against the rise of machine intelligence. New essays and annotations by Mitch Kelly connect its history of power and resistance to AI, citizen science, and the people building a way around today’s gatekeepers.

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In development

Mutual Aid

Edited and Annotated by Mitch Kelly

An account of cooperation as a force in animal life and human society.

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In development

Back to Methuselah

Edited and Annotated by Mitch Kelly

Five plays exploring what radically longer lives might mean for human development and civilization.

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