Stolen Reading Lists

BOOKS

• Art and Autonomy - Sebastian Olma -- Text
• Capitalist Realism - Mark Fisher -- Text
• The Power of the Powerless - Vaclav Havel -- Text
• Neuromancer - William Gibson -- Text
• The Medium is the Massage - Marshall McLuhan -- Text
• The Birth of Tragedy - Friedrich Nietzsche -- Text
• Rabelais and His World (Introduction) - Mikhail Bakhtin -- Text
• The Wretched of the Screen - Hito Steyerl -- Text
• A Manifesto for Cyborgs - Donna Haraway -- Text

ARTICLES

• Postmodernism and Consumer Society - Fredric Jameson -- Text
• Molecular Sex and Polymorphic Sensibilities - Johanna Bruckner -- Text
• The Weak Universalism - Boris Groys -- Text

LENS BASED CORE READING

PHOTOGRAPHY

• Reflections on Photography - Roland Barthes -- Text
• On Photography - Susan Sontag -- Text
• Towards a Philosophy on Photography - Vilem Flusser -- Text
• Another Way of Telling: A Possible Theory of Photography - John Berger & Jean Mohr -- Text
• Understanding a Photograph - John Berger -- Text
• Burden Of Representation: Essays on Photographies and Histories - John Tagg
• Techniques of the Observer: on vision and modernity in the nineteenth century - Johathan Crary
• Objectivity - Lorraine Daston & Peter Galison
• The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Recombination - Jos De Mul -- Text
• Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War - Hito Steyerl

EDITING & NARRATIVE

• The Film Sense - Sergei Eisenstein -- Text
• What Is Cinema? Volume 1 - Andre Bazin -- Text
• What Is Cinema? Volume 2 - Andre Bazin -- Text
• Sculpting In Time - Andrey Tarkovsky -- Text
• Into the Woods - John Yorke
• In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing - Walter Murch
• Film Art: An Introduction - David Bordwell & Kristina Thompson

PRE-HISTORY OF CINEMA / OPTICAL TOYS

• From the Vatican to Vegas: The History of Special Effects - Norman M. Klein -- Text
• Visual Thinking - Rudolf Arnheim
• Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen - Barbara Maria Stafford

MEDIA THEORY

• The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - Walter Benjamin -- Text
• The Emergence of Cinematic Time - Mary Ann Doane -- Text
• The Virtual Life of Film - D.N. Rodowick
• Framed Time: Towards a Post-Filmic Cinema - Garrett Stewart -- Text
• The End of Celluloid: Film Futures in the Digital Age - Matt Hanson
• Death 24x a Second - Laura Mulvey
• Deep Time of the Media: Towards an Archeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means - Siegfried Zelinski
• The Language of New Media - Lev Manovich -- Text
• The New Aesthetic - James Bridle -- Text