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