Inspirations

Below is a list of books that have inspired many of the thoughts and responses behind my cut-ups since 2015.

  1. The Open – Giorgio Agamben
  2. The Man Without Content – Giorgio Agamben
  3. Pulcinella – Giorgio Agamben
  4. The Human Voice – Giorgio Agamben
  5. Creation and Anarchy The Work of Art and the Religion of Capitalism – Giorgio Agamben
  6. The Age of Disruption (Technology and Madness in Computational Capitalism) – Bernard Stiegler
  7. Symbolic Misery – Bernard Stiegler
  8. For a New Critique of Political Economy – Bernard Stiegler
  9. De Anima – Aristotle
  10. The Metaphysics – Aristotle
  11. The Nicomachean Ethics – Aristotle
  12. Twilight of the Idols or How to Philosophize with a Hammer – Friedrich Nietzsche
  13. On the Genealogy of Morals – Friedrich Nietzsche
  14. The Gay Science – Friedrich Nietzsche
  15. Ecce Homo (How One Becomes What One Is) – Friedrich Nietzsche
  16. The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude – Martin Heidegger
  17. The Question Concerning Technology – Martin Heidegger
  18. What is Called Thinking – Martin Heidegger
  19. Being and Time – Martin Heidegger
  20. Laughter An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic – Henri Bergson
  21. God, Death, and Time – Emmanuel Levinas
  22. Being Singular Plural – Jean-Luc Nancy
  23. Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason – Theodor Adorno
  24. The Foray Into the Worlds of Animals and Humans – Jakob Johann von Uexküll
  25. Symbolism: its meaning and effect – Alfred North Whitehead
  26. Parasite – Michel Serres
  27. Hominescence – Michel Serres
  28. System Theory Vol 1 – Nikolas Luhmann
  29. Art as a Social System – Nikolas Luhmann
  30. The Reality of the Mass Media – Nikolas Luhmann
  31. The Natural Philosophy of Plant Form – Agnes Arber
  32. On the Aesthetic Education of Man – Friedrich Schiller
  33. The Transcendence of the Ego – Jean Paul Sartre
  34. Noise: The Political Economy of Music – Jacques Attali
  35. The Phenomenology of Spirit – Hegel
  36. Introduction to the Philosophy of History – Hegel
  37. Faust – Goethe (Walter Kaufmann’s translation)
  38. Elective Affinities – Goethe
  39. The Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and Beautiful Lily – Goethe
  40. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Goethe
  41. The Metamorphosis of Plants – Goethe
  42. Theory of Colours – Goethe
  43. Views of Nature – Alexander Humboldt
  44. Nature as Event: The Lure of the Possible –  Didier Debaise
  45. Ethics – Baruch Spinoza
  46. Monadology – Leibniz
  47. The Conquest of Bread – Peter Kropotkin
  48. Mutual Aid – Peter Kropotkin
  49. Treatise on The Emendation of the Intellect – Baruch Spinoza
  50. Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals – Immanuel Kant
  51. End of All Things – Immanuel Kant
  52. Perpetual Peace – Immanuel Kant
  53. The Gift of Death – Jacques Derrida
  54. The Death Penalty Vol. 1 & 2 – Jacques Derrida
  55. The Guillotine and the Terror – Daniel Arasse
  56. Inhuman – Jean-François Lyotard
  57. Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil – Alain Badiou
  58. Philosophy for Militants – Alain Badiou
  59. In Praise of Love – Alain Badiou
  60. The Denial of Death – Ernest Becker
  61. The Human Condition – Hannah Arendt
  62. Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses – Louis Althusser
  63. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism – Max Weber
  64. Suicide – Émile Durkheim
  65. The Ethics of Ambiguity – Simone de Beauvoir
  66. A Very Easy Death – Simone de Beauvoir
  67. Passwords – Jean Baudrillard
  68. The Consumer Society – Jean Baudrillard
  69. The Gulf War Did Not Take Place – Jean Baudrillard
  70. The Vital Illusion – Jean Baudrillard
  71. Radical Sacrifice – Terry Eagleton
  72. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus – Ludwig Wittgenstein
  73. Candide – Voltaire
  74. Five Dialogues (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo) – Plato
  75. On The Shortness of Life – Seneca
  76. Escape from Freedom – Erich Fromm
  77. The Art of Loving – Erich Fromm
  78. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding – David Hume
  79. Discourse on the Sciences and Arts – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  80. Truth and Juridical Forms – Michel Foucault
  81. Discipline and Punish – Michel Foucault
  82. The World as Will and Representation – Arthur Schopenhauer
  83. Essays and Aphorisms (Esp. On the Suffering of the World, On the Vanity of Existence, On the Antithesis of Thing in Itself and Appearance) – Arthur Schopenhauer
  84. The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations – Christopher Lasch
  85. The Oversoul – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  86. Nature – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  87. Basic Writings (Esp. The Place of Sex Among Human Values, Education, and The Metaphysician’s Nightmare: Retro Me Satanas) – Bertrand Russell
  88. Mortality – Christopher Hitchens
  89. Media Control – Noam Chomsky