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