If you've read my essays, it will hopefully be clear that there are very few sources that directly deal with meritocracy as a problem, or that are 'post-meritocratic'. So all of these embody part of the solution, but you'll have to do the integration work yourself.

On Politics, Media, Consensus formation, Political Economy:

Michael Parenti: Democracy for the Few, Against Empire, Face of Imperialism, Inventing Reality, Dirty Truths.

David Harvey: Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom; The Enigma of Capital; Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason.

Michael Hudson: Killing the Host, J is for Junk Economics.

Walter Rodney: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa.

On rethinking human behavior, moral and cultural attitudes:

Marshall B. Rosenberg: Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life.

Walter Wink, The Powers That Be.

David Graeber: Debt: The First 5000 Years, The Utopia of Rules.

Michael Parenti: Make-believe Media, Land of Idols.

Gary Francione: Animals as Persons; Introduction to Animal Rights; Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach (with Anna Charlton).

Walter Wink: The Powers That Be

Walter Kaufmann: Without Guilt and Justice.

On organization building:

Mike Macnair: Revolutionary Strategy

Miki Kashtan: Reweaving our Human Fabric.

Roberto Nunes: Neither Vertical nor Horizontal