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ARCHITECTURE

• ACCONCI, VITO. “MANIFESTO: A TALE OF TWO OR MORE ARCHITECTURES (AN ARCHITECTURE OF FAIRY TALES)” ICON MAGAZINE, ISSUE #404, 2007.

• ALBERS, JOSEF. “THE EDUCATIONAL VALUE OF MANUAL WORK AND HANDICRAFT IN RELATION TO ARCHITECTURE.” 1944.

• BACHELARD, GASTON. THE POETICS OF SPACE. BEACON PRESS. 1964. 
• FRAMPTON, KENNETH. “TOWARDS A CRITICAL REGIONALISM: SIX POINTS FOR AN ARCHITECTURE OF RESISTANCE.” 1983. 

• KOOLHAAS, REM. “JUNKSPACE” OCTOBER, VOL. 100, SPRING 2002. 

• KOOLHAAS, REM. DELIRIOUS NEW YORK. THE MONACELLI PRESS. 1978. 

• PALLASMAA, JUHANI. THE EYES OF THE SKIN: ARCHITECTURE AND THE SENSES. WILEY, 2005. (EXCEPTS)
• PARENT, CLAUDE. “THE LIMITS OF MEMORY: FOR A CRITICAL ARCHITECTURE” 1997. 

• PARENT, CLAUDE. “TWELVE SUBVERSIVE ACTS TO DODGE THE SYSTEM” 2001. 

• RUDOFSKY, BERNARD. ARCHITECTURE WITHOUT ARCHITECTS: A SHORT INTRODUCTION TO NON-PEDIGREED ARCHITECTURE. DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY. 1964. 



ARTISTS' WRITINGS / ART HISTORY / ART THEORY 

• ASHER, MICHAEL. WRITINGS 1973-1983 ON WORKS 1969 - 1979. THE PRESS OF THE NOVA SCOTIA COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN AND THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES, 1983. 

• BOURRIAUD, NICOLAS. RELATIONAL AESTHETICS. LES PRESSES DU RÉEL, 2002. 
• BRAKHAGE, STAN. “FROM METAPHORS ON VISION” THE AVANT-GARDE FILM: A READER OF THEORY AND CRITICISM. (NEW YORK: ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES, 1978), PP 120-128.

• BRETON, ANDRÉ. “MANIFESTO OF SURREALISM.” 1924.
• CAILLOIS, ROGER. THE WRITING OF STONES. UNIVERSITY PRESS OF VIRGINIA. 1985.
• CLARK, T.J.. THE PAINTING OF POSTMODERN LIFE? QUADERNS PORTATILS. 2000.

• DAMISCH, HUBERT. “REMARKS ON ABSTRACTION.” OCTOBER, NO. 127, WINTER 2009, pp. 133-154. 

• DAMISCH, HUBERT. “PERSPECTIVE, A THING OF THE PAST?” THE ORIGIN OF PERSPECTIVE. MIT PRESS. 1995.

• DIDI-HUBERMAN, GEORGE. “OUVERTURE - L’HISTOIRE DE L’ART COMME DISCIPLINE ANACHRONIQUE.” DEVANT L’IMAGE: DEVANT LE TEMPS. LES ÉDITIONS DE MINUT, 2000.

• FOLKERTS, HENDRIK &  LINDNER, CHRISTOPH & SCHAVEMAKER, MARGRIET. FACING FORWARD: ART & THEORY FROM A FUTURE PERSPECTIVE. AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2015.

• FOSTER, HAL. THE RETURN OF THE REAL. MIT PRESS, 1996.
• FOUCAULT, MICHEL. “THIS IS NOT A PIPE.” 1973.

• FRIED, MICHAEL. “ART AND OBJECTHOOD.” 1967.

• GAIGER, JASON & WOOD, PAUL. ART OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: A READER. YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2003.

• GREENBERG, CLEMENT. “AVANT-GARDE AND KITSCH.” 1939.

• HEIDEGGER, MARTIN, “ART AND SPACE.” TRANSLATED BY CHARLES E.SEIBERT, 1973.  
• JUDD, DONALD. “SPECIFIC OBJECTS.” 1965. 
• JORN, ASGER. “FORMS CONCEIVED AS LANGUAGE.” 1949.

• JOSELIT, DAVID. “PAINTING BESIDE ITSELF.” OCTOBER, NO. 130, FALL 2009, pp. 125-134. 

• KEPES, GYORGY (EDITOR) . THE MAN-MADE OBJECT. GEORGE BRAZILLER INC. 1966. 

• KEPES, GYORGY. LANGUAGE OF VISION. PAUL THEOBALD AND COMPANY. 1969. 

• KLEE, PAUL. “ON MODERN ART.” 1924.

• KRAUSS, ROSALIND E. “A VOYAGE ON THE NORTH SEA: ART IN THE AGE OF THE POST-MEDIUM CONDITION.” 1973.

• KRAUSS, ROSALIND E. “NOTES ON THE INDEX: SEVENTIES ART IN AMERICA” OCTOBER, VOL.3, SPRING 1977, pp.68-81.

• KOSUTH, JOSEPH. ART AFTER PHILOSOPHY - THE COLLECTED WRITINGS 1966-1990. MIT PRESS, 1999. 

• MATISSE, HENRI. “NOTES OF A PAINTER.” 1908.

• MORRIS, ROBERT. “NOTES ON SCULPTURE PART 1 & 2” IN MINIMAL ART: A CRITICAL ANTHOLOGY, EP DUTTON, 1968.  

• OWENS, CRAIG. “THE ALLEGORICAL IMPULSE: TOWARD A THEORY OF POSTMODERNISM.” 1980. (PART ONE)

• SMITHSON, ROBERT. “ENTROPY AND THE NEW MONUMENTS” ROBERT SMITHSON: THE COLLECTED WRITINGS. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, 1996. 

• SNOW, MICHAEL. THE COLLECTED WRITINGS OF MICHAEL SNOW. WILFRED LAURIER UNIVERSITY PRESS. 1994. 

• TANIZAKI, JUN’ICHIRŌ. IN PRAISE OF SHADOWS. LEETE’S ISLAND BOOKS, 1977. 

• ULRICH OBRIST, HANS. A BRIEF HISTORY OF CURATING. JRP RINGIER & LES PRESSES DU RÉEL, 2008. 



MEDIA THEORY / VISUAL CULTURE

• BARTHES, ROLAND. “THE RHETORIC OF THE IMAGE” IN ELEMENTS OF SEMIOLOGY. HILL AND WANG,1968.

• BENJAMIN, WALTER. “THE WORK OF ART IN THE AGE OF MECHANICAL REPRODUCTION” 1936.

• CHOMSKY, NOAM & HERMAN S. EDWARD. MANUFACTURING CONSENT: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE MASS MEDIA. PANTHEON BOOKS, 2002.

• GALISON, PETER. “IMAGES SCATTER INTO DATA, DATA GATHER INTO IMAGES.” IN ICONOCLAST: BEYOND THE IMAGE WARS IN SCIENCE, RELIGION & ART. MIT PRESS, 2002, pp. 300-323.

• HALL, STUART. “ENCODING/DECODING” 1980. 
• KITTLER, FRIEDRICH. “THINKING COLORS AND/OR MACHINES” THEORY, CULTURE & SOCIETY, VOL. 23 ISSUE 7-8, DECEMBER 2006. 

• KRUGER, BARBARA. REMOTE CONTROL: POWER, CULTURE AND THE WORLD OF APPEARANCES. MIT PRESS, 1993.

• LEGRADY, GEORGE. “IMAGE, LANGUAGE AND BELIEF IN SYNTHESIS” ART JOURNAL, 1990, VOL. 49, NO. 3, pp. 266-271. 
• LISTER, MARTIN & AL. NEW MEDIA: A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION (SECOND EDITION). ROUTLEDGE, 2009.

• MANOVICH, LEV. “POST-MEDIA AESTHETIC.” 2005.

• MANOVICH, LEV. THE LANGUAGE OF NEW MEDIA. MIT PRESS, 2001. 

• McLUHAN, MARSHALL. “THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE” in UNDERSTANDING MEDIA: THE EXTENSIONS OF MAN. McGRAW HILL EDUCATION, 1964.
• MITCHELL, W.J.T. “THERE ARE NO VISUAL MEDIA.” JOURNAL OF VISUAL CULTURE, VOL.4, ISSUE 2, 2005.

• MITCHELL, W.J.T. THE LANGUAGE OF IMAGES. THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS, 1974.

• MITCHELL, W.J.T. “WHAT IS AN IMAGE?” NEW LITERARY HISTORY VOL.15, NO.3, IMAGE/IMAGO/IMAGINATION (SPRING,1984), 503-537.

• MONDZAIN, MARIE-JOSÉE. IMAGE, ICON, ECONOMY. STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2005. 

• STEYERL, HITO. “IN DEFENSE OF THE POOR IMAGE.” E-FLUX JOURNAL #10, 2009.



MUSIC / SOUND

• BYRNE, DAVID. HOW MUSIC WORKS. MCSWEENEY’S, 2012. 

• CAGE, JOHN. ON SILENCE: LECTURES AND WRITINGS BY JOHN CAGE. WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS. 1973.

• HECKER, TIMOTHY. “THE ERA OF MEGAPHONICS: ON THE PRODUCTIVITY OF LOUDS SOUNDS, 1880 - 1930.” MCGILL UNIVERSITY, 2013. 


PHILOSOPHY / CRITICAL THEORY

• ADORNO, THEODOR W. THE CULTURE INDUSTRY: SELECTED ESSAYS ON MASS CULTURE. ROUTLEDGE, 1991.

• BEAUDRILLARD, JEAN. LA SOCIÉTÉ DE CONSOMMATION. ÉDITIONS DENOËL, 1970. 
• DEBORD, GUY. THE SOCIETY OF SPECTACLE. ZONE BOOKS. 1994.

• FISHER, MARK. CAPITALIST REALISM: IS THERE NO ALTERNATIVE? ZERO BOOKS, 2009.
• FOUCAULT, MICHEL. “OF OTHER SPACES: UTOPIAS AND HETEROTOPIAS.” 1967.

• HARMAN, GRAHAM. PRINCE OF NETWORKS: BRUNO LATOUR AND METAPHYSICS. RE.PRESS, 2009.
• JAMESON, FREDERIC. SIGNATURES OF THE VISIBLE. ROUTLEDGE, 1992.

• KACZYNSKI, THEODORE. “INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY AND ITS FUTURE.” 1995. 

• McKENZIE, WARK. THE SPECTACLE OF DISENTEGRATION: SITUATIONIST PASSAGES OUT OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. VERSO BOOKS, 2013. 


PHOTOGRAPHY 

• BARTHES, ROLAND. CAMERA LUCIA: REFLECTIONS ON PHOTOGRAPHY. HILL & WANG,1980.

• BAZIN, ANDRÉ. “THE ONTOLOGY OF THE PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE” FILM QUARTERLY VOL. 13, 1960.

• BEAUDRILLARD, JEAN. “PHOTOGRAPHY, OR THE WRITING OF LIGHT.” TRANSLATED BY FRANÇOIS DEBRIX. CTHEORY, 2000.

• BENJAMIN, WALTER. “A SHORT HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY.” 1931.
• BERGER, JOHN. “UNDERSTANDING A PHOTOGRAPH” IN SELECTED ESSAYS AND ARTICLES: THE LOOK OF THINGS. PELICAN BOOKS, 1977.

• CRIMP, DOUGLAS. “PICTURES” X-TRA. VOL.8 #1, 2005.

• DAMISH, HUBERT. “FIVE NOTES FOR A PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE.” OCTOBER, VOL. 5, SUMMER 1978, pp. 70-72. 
• FLUSSER, VILÉM. TOWARDS A PHILOSOPHY OF PHOTOGRAHY. REAKTION BOOKS, 2000.

• GRAHAM, PAUL. “PHOTOGRAPHY IS EASY, PHOTOGRAPHY IS DIFFICULT.” 2009.

• JÄGER, GOTTFRIED. “(IN-BETWEEN) LIGHT IMAGE AND DATA IMAGE.” LEONARDO, VOL. 51, ISSUE 2, APRIL 2018, pp. 146-154. 

• MAHOLY-NAGY, LASZLO. PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY, FILM.  LUND HUMPHRIES, 1969.

• RØDLAND, TORBJØRN. “SENTENCES ON PHOTOGRAPHY” TRIPLE CANOPY, ISSUE #12: “BLACK BOX”, 2011.

• SZARKOWSKI, JOHN. PRESS RELEASE OF “MIRRORS AND WINDOWS. AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY SINCE 1960” AT THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK. 1978.

• WALL, JEFF. “MARKS OF INDIFFERENCE: ASPECTS OF PHOTOGRAPHY IN, OR AS, CONCEPTUAL ART.” IN ART OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: A READER. YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2003.



DIGITAL CULTURE

• BISHOP, CLAIRE. “DIGITAL DEVIDE” ARTFORUM, SEPTEMBER 2012, pp. 434-442.

• BRAND, STEWART. THE MEDIA LAB: INVENTING THE FUTURE AT MIT. VIKING. 1987. 

• BRIDLE, JAMES. “RISE OF THE MACHINES: HAS TECHNOLOGY EVOLVED BEYOND OUR CONTROL?” THE GUARDIAN, JUNE 2018.

• CORNELL, LAUREN & HALTER, ED. MASS EFFECT: ART AND THE INTERNET IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY. MIT PRESS, 2015.

• DAVIS, DOUGLAS. “THE WORK OF ART IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL REPRODUCTION (AN EVOLVING THESIS: 1991-1995)” LEONARDO, VOL.28 NO.5, THIRD ANNUAL NEW YORK DIGITAL SALON (1995), pp. 381-386.

• FRIEDBERG, ANNE. THE VIRTUAL WINDOW: FROM ALBERTI TO MICROSOFT. MIT PRESS. 2006.

 • GREENFIELD, ADAM. RADICAL TECHNOLOGIES: THE DESIGN OF EVERYDAY LIFE. VERSO BOOKS, 2018. 

• GROYS, BORIS. “FROM IMAGE TO IMAGE-FILE - AND BACK: ART IN THE AGE OF DIGITALIZATION” IN ART POWER,  MIT PRESS, 2008, pp. 88-89. 
• GROYS, BORIS. “ART, TECHNOLOGY, AND HUMANISM” E-FLUX, JOURNAL #83, 2017. 

• JOSELIT, DAVID. “WHAT TO DO WITH PICTURES” OCTOBER, VOL. 138, FALL 2011, pp. 81-94.

• MANOVICH, LEV. “THE PARADOXES OF DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY” IN PHOTOGRAPHY AFTER PHOTOGRAPHY, EXHIBITION CATALOGUE, 1995. 

• MCHUGH, GENE. POST INTERNET: NOTES ON THE INTERNET AND ART 12.29.09 > 09.05.10. LINK EDITIONS, 2011.

• NEGROPONTE, NICHOLAS. BEING DIGITAL. HODDER & STOUGHTON, 1995. 

• PRICE, SETH. DISPERSION, 2002.

• QUARANTA, DOMENICO. BEYOND NEW MEDIA ART. LINK EDITIONS, 2013.

• RESPINI, EVA. ART IN THE AGE OF INTERNET, 1989 TO TODAY. YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2018.

• SANCHEZ, MICHAEL. “CONTEMPORARY ART, DAILY. IN ART AND SUJECTHOOD: THE RETURN OF THE HUMAN FIGURE IN SEMIOCAPITALISM. STERNBERB PRESS, 2011, pp. 52-61. 

• STEYERL, HITO. TOO MUCH WORLD: IS THE INTERNET DEAD? E-FLUX JOURNAL #49, NOVEMBER 2013. 
• WARK, MCKENZIE. A HACKER MANIFESTO. HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2004.



POETRY / FICTION

• BALLARD, JG. “THE OVERLOADED MAN.” 1961. 

• BALLARD, JG. THE CRYSTAL WORLD. JONATHAN CAPE EDITIONS. 1966. 

• BALLARD, JG. THE ATROCITY EXHIBITION. JONATHAN CAPE EDITIONS. 1970.
  
• BECKETT, SAMUEL. NEITHER, 1977.
• BORGES, JORGE LUIS. “SHORT STORIES” TRANSLATION BY
NORMAN THOMAS DIGIOVANNI, 2014.

• BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S. THE SOFT MACHINE. OLYMPIA PRESS. 1961. 

• CARSON, ANNE. SHORT TALKS. VINTAGE BOOKS. 1995. (EXCERPTS)

• CARSON, RACHEL. SILENT SPRING, 1962. 
• ELIOT, TS. THE WASTELAND. 1922.
• GIBSON, WILLIAM. “NEW ROSE HOTEL.” OMNI MAGAZINE, 1984.

• LOVECRAFT, HP. “THE CALL OF CTHULHU.” 1928.    

• NELSON, MAGGIE. BLUETS, WAVE BOOKS, 2009.

• STEPHENSON, NEAL. SNOWCRASH. BANTAM BOOKS, 1992. 



ECOLOGY 

• ABRAM, DAVID. “MAGIC AND THE MACHINE: NOTES ON TECHNOLOGY AND ANIMISM IN AN ERA OF ECOLOGICAL WIPE-OUT.” EMERGENCE MAGAZINE, VOL. 3, OCTOBER 17, 2018. 

• BATESON, GREGORY. STEPS TO AN ECOLOGY OF THE MIND. BALLANTINE BOOKS. 1972.
• BERGMAN, RAY. TROUT. KNOPF, 1952.

• CURTIS, ADAM. “HOW THE ‘ECOSYSTEM’ MYTH HAS BEEN USED FOR SINISTER MEANS”. THE GUARDIAN, MAY 2011. 

• DEMOS, TJ. AGAINST THE ANTROPOCENE: VISUAL CULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT TODAY. MIT PRESS, 2017.

• EARTH FIRST! DIRECT ACTION MANUAL. (FIRST EDITION), 1997. 

• GRIGELY, JOSEPH. “STREAMBEAT FRAN BETTERS AND THE MYSTERIES OF STREAMSIDE REPRESENTATION” CABINET MAGAZINE. ISSUE 15, FALL 2004.

• GUATTARI, FÉLIX. THREE ECOLOGIES. THE ATHLONE PRESS, 2000. 

• HARAWAY, DONNA. “TENTACULAR THINKING: ANTHROPOCENE, CAPITALOCENE, CHTHLUCENE.” E-FLUX, JOURNAL #75, SEPTEMBER 2016.

• HASKELL, G. DAVID. “ELEVEN WAYS OF SMELLING A TREE.” EMERGENCE MAGAZINE. JANUARY 2020. 

• KIMMERER, ROBIN WALL. LEARNING THE GRAMMAR OF ANIMACY. ANTROPOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS, VOL 28 (2), 2017.
• KNIGHT, JOHN. “THE PHILOSOPHY OF FLY-FISHING.” THE PARIS REVIEW, OCTOBER 2017.

• LATOUR, BRUNO. DOWN TO EARTH: POLITICS IN THE NEW CLIMATIC REGIME. POLITY PRESS, 2018.

• MORTON, TIMOTHY. HYPEROBJECTS: PHILOSOPHY AND ECOLOGY AT THE END OF THE WORLD. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS, 2013. 

• MORTON, TIMOTHY. DARK ECOLOGY: FOR A LOGIC OF FUTURE COEXISTENCE. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS. 2016.

• NAESS, ARNE. ECOLOGY OF WISDOM. COUNTERPOINT PRESS. 2010.  
• SIMARD, SUZANNE. “THE SOCIAL LIFE OF FORESTS.” THE NEW YORK TIMES, DECEMBER 2020. 

• TOMPKINS, PETER & BIRD, CHRISTOPHER. THE SECRET LIFE OF PLANTS. HARPER COLLINS, 1973.

• WARK, McKENZIE. MOLECULAR RED: THEORY FOR THE ANTROPOCENE. VERSO BOOKS, 2016.

• WOHLLEBEN, PETER. THE SECRET WISDOM OF NATURE: TREES, ANIMALS AND THE EXTRAORDIANRY BALANCE OF ALL LIVING THINGS - STORIES FROM SCIENCE AND OBSERVATION. GREYSTONE BOOKS, 2019. 



READING / WRITING

• DIDION, JOAN. “ON KEEPING A NOTEBOOK.” 1968.

• ECO, UMBERTO. HOW TO WRITE A THESIS. MIT PRESS, 2015. 

• GOLDBERG, NATALIE. WRITING DOWN THE BONES. SHAMBHALA, 1986. 

• POUND, EZRA. THE ABC OF READING. FABER & FABER. 1951.

• STILES, KRISTINE & SELZ, PETER. THEORIES AND DOCUMENTS OF CONTEMPORARY ART: A SOURCEBOOK OF ARTIST’S WRITINGS. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, 2012.