Inspirations

Below is a list of books that have inspired many of the thoughts and responses behind my cut-ups (Esp. the most recent series).

  1. Human, All Too Human – Friedrich Nietzsche
  2. Twilight of the Idols or How to Philosophize with a Hammer – Friedrich Nietzsche
  3. Ecce Homo (How One Becomes What One Is) – Friedrich Nietzsche
  4. On the Genealogy of Morals – Friedrich Nietzsche
  5. On the Aesthetic Education of Man – Friedrich Schiller
  6. The Transcendence of the Ego – Jean Paul Sartre
  7. Noise: The Political Economy of Music – Jacques Attali
  8. Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason – Theodor Adorno
  9. Passwords – Jean Baudrillard
  10. Simulacra and Simulation – Jean Baudrillard
  11. The Gulf War Did Not Take Place – Jean Baudrillard
  12. The Vital Illusion – Jean Baudrillard
  13. The Agony of Power – Jean Baudrillard
  14. Monadology – Leibniz
  15. Symbolism: its meaning and effect – Alfred North Whitehead
  16. Parasite – Michel Serres
  17. The Natural Philosophy of Plant Form – Agnes Arber
  18. The Phenomenology of Spirit – Hegel
  19. Introduction to the Philosophy of History – Hegel
  20. Faust – Goethe (Walter Kaufmann’s translation)
  21. Elective Affinities – Goethe
  22. The Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and Beautiful Lily – Goethe
  23. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Goethe
  24. The Metamorphosis of Plants – Goethe
  25. Theory of Colours – Goethe
  26. Views of Nature – Alexander Humboldt
  27. Ethics – Baruch Spinoza
  28. Treatise on The Emendation of the Intellect – Baruch Spinoza
  29. Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals – Immanuel Kant
  30. End of All Things – Immanuel Kant
  31. Perpetual Peace – Immanuel Kant
  32. The Gift of Death – Jacques Derrida
  33. Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason – Theodor W. Adorno
  34. Inhuman – Jean-François Lyotard
  35. Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil – Alain Badiou
  36. Philosophy for Militants – Alain Badiou
  37. In Praise of Love – Alain Badiou
  38. The Denial of Death – Ernest Becker
  39. The Human Condition – Hannah Arendt
  40. Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses – Louis Althusser
  41. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism – Max Weber
  42. Being and Time – Martin Heidegger
  43. The Question Concerning Technology – Martin Heidegger
  44. What is Called Thinking – Martin Heidegger
  45. The Age of Disruption (Technology and Madness in Computational Capitalism) – Bernard Stiegler
  46. Symbolic Misery – Bernard Stiegler
  47. For a New Critique of Political Economy – Bernard Stiegler
  48. God, Death, and Time – Emmanuel Levinas
  49. Suicide – Émile Durkheim
  50. Parasite – Michel Serres
  51. The Ethics of Ambiguity – Simone de Beauvoir
  52. A Very Easy Death – Simone de Beauvoir
  53. Radical Sacrifice – Terry Eagleton
  54. A Short History of Decay – E. M. Cioran
  55. The Temptation to Exist – E. M. Cioran
  56. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus – Ludwig Wittgenstein
  57. Technics and Human Development (Myth of the Machine) – Lewis Mumford
  58. Candide – Voltaire
  59. Five Dialogues (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo) – Plato
  60. De Anima – Aristotle
  61. The Metaphysics – Aristotle
  62. The Nicomachean Ethics – Aristotle
  63. On The Shortness of Life – Seneca
  64. The Satyricon – Petronius
  65. Escape from Freedom – Erich Fromm
  66. The Art of Loving – Erich Fromm
  67. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding – David Hume
  68. Discourse on the Sciences and Arts – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  69. Amusing Ourselves to Death –  Neil Postman
  70. Truth and Juridical Forms – Michel Foucault
  71. Discipline and Punish – Michel Foucault
  72. The World as Will and Representation – Arthur Schopenhauer
  73. 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
  74. The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations – Christopher Lasch
  75. The Oversoul – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  76. Nature – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  77. Basic Writings (Esp. The Place of Sex Among Human Values, Education, and The Metaphysician’s Nightmare: Retro Me Satanas) – Bertrand Russell
  78. Mortality – Christopher Hitchens
  79. Pacifism as Pathology – Ward Churchill w/ Mike Ryan
  80. Notes from Underground – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  81. Media Control – Noam Chomsky
  82. The Culture of Make Believe – Derrick Jensen
  83. Elements of Refusal (Esp. Anti-Work, Struggle for Control) – John Zerzan
  84. Running on Emptiness (Esp. That Thing We Do, Against Technology, The Age of Nihilism) – John Zerzan
  85. Letter from a Birmingham Jail – Martin Luther King Jr.
  86. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley