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

• Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography - Roland Barthes - 1993
• On Photography - Susan Sontag - 1979
• Towards a Philosophy of Photography - Vilem Flusser
• Another Way of Telling: A Possible Theory of Photography - John Berger & Jean Mohr
• Understanding a Photograph - John Berger
• Burden Of Representation: Essays on Photographies and Histories, John Tagg, University of Minnesota (1993)
• Techniques of the Observer: on vision and modernity in the nineteenth century, Johathan Crary, MIT (1992)
• Objectivity, Lorraine Daston & Peter Galison, Zone Books (2007)
• The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Recombination, Jos De Mul (2009): http://www.demul.nl/nl/item/412-the-work-of-art-in-the-age-of-digital-recombination
• Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War, Hito Steyerl, Verso (2017)

EDITING & NARRATIVE

• The Film Sense - Eisenstien
• What is Cinema? Andre Bazin. Volume I & Volume II
• Sculpting in Time: Reflections on the Cinema - Andrei Tarkovsky
• Into the Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them - John Yorke - 2014
• In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing. 2nd Ed. - Walter Murch - 2001
• 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
• Visual Thinking - Rudolf Arnheim
• Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen - Barbara Maria Stafford - 2002

MEDIA THEORY

• The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - Walter Benjamin - 1936
• The Emergence of Cinematic Time - Mary Ann Doane - 2002
• The Virtual Life of Film - D.N. Rodowick - 2007
• Framed Time: Towards a Post-Filmic Cinema - Garrett Stewart - 2007
• The End of Celluloid: Film Futures in the Digital Age - Matt Hanson - 2004
• Death 24x a Second - Laura Mulvey - 2006
• Deep Time of the Media: Towards an Archeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means - Siegfried Zelinski - 2006
• The Language of New Media - Lev Manovich - 2001
• The New Aesthetic - James Bridle : https://jamesbridle.com/works/the-new-aesthetic