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. The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude – Martin Heidegger
  6. The Question Concerning Technology – Martin Heidegger
  7. What is Called Thinking – Martin Heidegger
  8. Being and Time – Martin Heidegger
  9. The Age of Disruption (Technology and Madness in Computational Capitalism) – Bernard Stiegler
  10. Symbolic Misery – Bernard Stiegler
  11. For a New Critique of Political Economy – Bernard Stiegler
  12. God, Death, and Time – Emmanuel Levinas
  13. The Open: Giorgio Agamben
  14. The Man Without Content: Giorgio Agamben
  15. Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason – Theodor Adorno
  16. The Foray Into the Worlds of Animals and Humans – Jakob Johann von Uexküll
  17. Symbolism: its meaning and effect – Alfred North Whitehead
  18. Parasite – Michel Serres
  19. The Natural Philosophy of Plant Form – Agnes Arber
  20. On the Aesthetic Education of Man – Friedrich Schiller
  21. The Transcendence of the Ego – Jean Paul Sartre
  22. Noise: The Political Economy of Music – Jacques Attali
  23. The Phenomenology of Spirit – Hegel
  24. Introduction to the Philosophy of History – Hegel
  25. Faust – Goethe (Walter Kaufmann’s translation)
  26. Elective Affinities – Goethe
  27. The Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and Beautiful Lily – Goethe
  28. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Goethe
  29. The Metamorphosis of Plants – Goethe
  30. Theory of Colours – Goethe
  31. Views of Nature – Alexander Humboldt
  32. Nature as Event: The Lure of the Possible –  Didier Debaise
  33. Ethics – Baruch Spinoza
  34. Passwords – Jean Baudrillard
  35. The Consumer Society – Jean Baudrillard
  36. The Gulf War Did Not Take Place – Jean Baudrillard
  37. The Vital Illusion – Jean Baudrillard
  38. Monadology – Leibniz
  39. Treatise on The Emendation of the Intellect – Baruch Spinoza
  40. Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals – Immanuel Kant
  41. End of All Things – Immanuel Kant
  42. Perpetual Peace – Immanuel Kant
  43. The Gift of Death – Jacques Derrida
  44. Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason – Theodor W. Adorno
  45. Inhuman – Jean-François Lyotard
  46. Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil – Alain Badiou
  47. Philosophy for Militants – Alain Badiou
  48. In Praise of Love – Alain Badiou
  49. The Denial of Death – Ernest Becker
  50. The Human Condition – Hannah Arendt
  51. Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses – Louis Althusser
  52. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism – Max Weber
  53. Suicide – Émile Durkheim
  54. Parasite – Michel Serres
  55. Hominescence – Michel Serres
  56. The Ethics of Ambiguity – Simone de Beauvoir
  57. A Very Easy Death – Simone de Beauvoir
  58. Radical Sacrifice – Terry Eagleton
  59. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus – Ludwig Wittgenstein
  60. Technics and Human Development (Myth of the Machine) – Lewis Mumford
  61. Candide – Voltaire
  62. Five Dialogues (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo) – Plato
  63. De Anima – Aristotle
  64. The Metaphysics – Aristotle
  65. The Nicomachean Ethics – Aristotle
  66. On The Shortness of Life – Seneca
  67. The Metaphysics of Death – Edited by John Martin Fischer
  68. Escape from Freedom – Erich Fromm
  69. The Art of Loving – Erich Fromm
  70. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding – David Hume
  71. Discourse on the Sciences and Arts – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  72. Amusing Ourselves to Death –  Neil Postman
  73. Truth and Juridical Forms – Michel Foucault
  74. Discipline and Punish – Michel Foucault
  75. The World as Will and Representation – Arthur Schopenhauer
  76. 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
  77. The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations – Christopher Lasch
  78. The Oversoul – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  79. Nature – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  80. Basic Writings (Esp. The Place of Sex Among Human Values, Education, and The Metaphysician’s Nightmare: Retro Me Satanas) – Bertrand Russell
  81. Mortality – Christopher Hitchens
  82. Pacifism as Pathology – Ward Churchill w/ Mike Ryan
  83. Notes from Underground – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  84. Media Control – Noam Chomsky