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. Remnants of Auschwitz The Witness and the Archive – 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. The King’s Two Bodies – Ernst Kantorowicz
  13. Lectures on the Religion of the Semites – William Robertson Smith
  14. Twilight of the Idols or How to Philosophize with a Hammer – Friedrich Nietzsche
  15. On the Genealogy of Morals – Friedrich Nietzsche
  16. The Gay Science – Friedrich Nietzsche
  17. Ecce Homo (How One Becomes What One Is) – Friedrich Nietzsche
  18. The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude – Martin Heidegger
  19. The Question Concerning Technology – Martin Heidegger
  20. What is Called Thinking – Martin Heidegger
  21. Being and Time – Martin Heidegger
  22. Laughter An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic – Henri Bergson
  23. God, Death, and Time – Emmanuel Levinas
  24. Listening – Jean-Luc Nancy
  25. Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason – Theodor Adorno
  26. The Foray Into the Worlds of Animals and Humans – Jakob Johann von Uexküll
  27. Symbolism: its meaning and effect – Alfred North Whitehead
  28. Parasite – Michel Serres
  29. Hominescence – Michel Serres
  30. System Theory Vol 1 – Nikolas Luhmann
  31. Art as a Social System – Nikolas Luhmann
  32. The Reality of the Mass Media – Nikolas Luhmann
  33. The Natural Philosophy of Plant Form – Agnes Arber
  34. On the Aesthetic Education of Man – Friedrich Schiller
  35. The Transcendence of the Ego – Jean Paul Sartre
  36. Noise: The Political Economy of Music – Jacques Attali
  37. The Phenomenology of Spirit – Hegel
  38. Introduction to the Philosophy of History – Hegel
  39. Faust – Goethe (Walter Kaufmann’s translation)
  40. Elective Affinities – Goethe
  41. The Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and Beautiful Lily – Goethe
  42. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Goethe
  43. The Metamorphosis of Plants – Goethe
  44. Theory of Colours – Goethe
  45. Views of Nature – Alexander Humboldt
  46. Nature as Event: The Lure of the Possible –  Didier Debaise
  47. Ethics – Baruch Spinoza
  48. Monadology – Leibniz
  49. The Conquest of Bread – Peter Kropotkin
  50. Mutual Aid – Peter Kropotkin
  51. Treatise on The Emendation of the Intellect – Baruch Spinoza
  52. Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals – Immanuel Kant
  53. End of All Things – Immanuel Kant
  54. Perpetual Peace – Immanuel Kant
  55. The Gift of Death – Jacques Derrida
  56. The Death Penalty Vol. 1 & 2 – Jacques Derrida
  57. The Guillotine and the Terror – Daniel Arasse
  58. Inhuman – Jean-François Lyotard
  59. Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil – Alain Badiou
  60. Philosophy for Militants – Alain Badiou
  61. In Praise of Love – Alain Badiou
  62. The Denial of Death – Ernest Becker
  63. The Human Condition – Hannah Arendt
  64. Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses – Louis Althusser
  65. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism – Max Weber
  66. Suicide – Émile Durkheim
  67. The Ethics of Ambiguity – Simone de Beauvoir
  68. A Very Easy Death – Simone de Beauvoir
  69. Passwords – Jean Baudrillard
  70. The Consumer Society – Jean Baudrillard
  71. The Gulf War Did Not Take Place – Jean Baudrillard
  72. The Vital Illusion – Jean Baudrillard
  73. Radical Sacrifice – Terry Eagleton
  74. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus – Ludwig Wittgenstein
  75. Candide – Voltaire
  76. Five Dialogues (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo) – Plato
  77. On The Shortness of Life – Seneca
  78. Escape from Freedom – Erich Fromm
  79. The Art of Loving – Erich Fromm
  80. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding – David Hume
  81. Discourse on the Sciences and Arts – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  82. Truth and Juridical Forms – Michel Foucault
  83. Discipline and Punish – Michel Foucault
  84. The World as Will and Representation – Arthur Schopenhauer
  85. 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
  86. The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations – Christopher Lasch
  87. The Oversoul – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  88. Nature – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  89. Basic Writings (Esp. The Place of Sex Among Human Values, Education, and The Metaphysician’s Nightmare: Retro Me Satanas) – Bertrand Russell
  90. Mortality – Christopher Hitchens
  91. Media Control – Noam Chomsky