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 -- Volume I 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