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. Ethics – Baruch Spinoza
  33. Passwords – Jean Baudrillard
  34. The Consumer Society – Jean Baudrillard
  35. The Gulf War Did Not Take Place – Jean Baudrillard
  36. The Vital Illusion – Jean Baudrillard
  37. Monadology – Leibniz
  38. Treatise on The Emendation of the Intellect – Baruch Spinoza
  39. Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals – Immanuel Kant
  40. End of All Things – Immanuel Kant
  41. Perpetual Peace – Immanuel Kant
  42. The Gift of Death – Jacques Derrida
  43. Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason – Theodor W. Adorno
  44. Inhuman – Jean-François Lyotard
  45. Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil – Alain Badiou
  46. Philosophy for Militants – Alain Badiou
  47. In Praise of Love – Alain Badiou
  48. The Denial of Death – Ernest Becker
  49. The Human Condition – Hannah Arendt
  50. Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses – Louis Althusser
  51. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism – Max Weber
  52. Suicide – Émile Durkheim
  53. Parasite – Michel Serres
  54. The Ethics of Ambiguity – Simone de Beauvoir
  55. A Very Easy Death – Simone de Beauvoir
  56. Radical Sacrifice – Terry Eagleton
  57. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus – Ludwig Wittgenstein
  58. Technics and Human Development (Myth of the Machine) – Lewis Mumford
  59. Candide – Voltaire
  60. Five Dialogues (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo) – Plato
  61. De Anima – Aristotle
  62. The Metaphysics – Aristotle
  63. The Nicomachean Ethics – Aristotle
  64. On The Shortness of Life – Seneca
  65. The Metaphysics of Death – Edited by John Martin Fischer
  66. Escape from Freedom – Erich Fromm
  67. The Art of Loving – Erich Fromm
  68. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding – David Hume
  69. Discourse on the Sciences and Arts – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  70. Amusing Ourselves to Death –  Neil Postman
  71. Truth and Juridical Forms – Michel Foucault
  72. Discipline and Punish – Michel Foucault
  73. The World as Will and Representation – Arthur Schopenhauer
  74. 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
  75. The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations – Christopher Lasch
  76. The Oversoul – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  77. Nature – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  78. Basic Writings (Esp. The Place of Sex Among Human Values, Education, and The Metaphysician’s Nightmare: Retro Me Satanas) – Bertrand Russell
  79. Mortality – Christopher Hitchens
  80. Pacifism as Pathology – Ward Churchill w/ Mike Ryan
  81. Notes from Underground – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  82. Media Control – Noam Chomsky