A working bibliography for the project, organized by the threads that shape both the argument and the method.
Theory
Apparatus Theory & Technical Images
- Vilém Flusser, Towards a Philosophy of Photography
- Vilém Flusser, Into the Universe of Technical Images
- Roland Barthes, Mythologies (esp. “Myth Today”)
Spectacle & Manufactured Consent
- Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle
- Noam Chomsky & Edward Herman, Manufacturing Consent
- Jonathan Crary, 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
Enclosure & Political Economy
- Mariana Mazzucato, The Entrepreneurial State
- Mariana Mazzucato, The Value of Everything
- Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
- David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules / Bullshit Jobs
Hype & Hyperstition
- CCRU / Nick Land, originating texts on hyperstition
- Delphi Carstens, “Hyperstition: An Introduction”
- Sun-ha Hong, Technologies of Speculation
- Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism
- Franco “Bifo” Berardi, After the Future
- Lee Vinsel & Andrew Russell, The Innovation Delusion
- Fred Turner, From Counterculture to Cyberculture
Knowledge Production & Epistemic Cultures
- Karin Knorr Cetina, Epistemic Cultures
- Sheila Jasanoff, The Fifth Branch / work on sociotechnical imaginaries
- Bruno Latour, Science in Action
Neurocapitalism
- Maurizio Lazzarato, Signs and Machines
- Bernard Stiegler, Technics and Time / The Age of Disruption
- Franco Berardi, The Soul at Work
Dramaturgy & Performance
- Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
- Richard Schechner, Performance Studies: An Introduction
Propaganda Aesthetics
- Susan Sontag, “Fascinating Fascism,” in Under the Sign of Saturn
- Siegfried Kracauer, From Caligari to Hitler
A note on this comparison: it’s used here as a provocation about the aesthetics of mastery and staged inevitability, not an equivalence claim.
Methodology
Media Archaeology
- Jussi Parikka, What is Media Archaeology?
- Wolfgang Ernst, Digital Memory and the Archive
Jump-Cut, Collage, Glitch
- Sergei Eisenstein, “The Dramaturgy of Film Form”
- Legacy Russell, Glitch Feminism
- Hito Steyerl, “In Defense of the Poor Image,” in The Wretched of the Screen
- Sam Lavigne, scraping/détournement practice (Stock Photo Alternative, surveillance-data works)
Artist practice
- Trevor Paglen, Sites Unseen
- Hito Steyerl, The Wretched of the Screen
- Kate Crawford, Atlas of AI
- Mimi Onuoha & Mother Cyborg (eds.), A People’s Guide to AI
- James Bridle, New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future