Media Theory Reading List -- Edward de Almeida



Berlant, Lauren, ed. Intimacy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. (special issue of Critical Inquiry)

Betsky, Aaron, K. Michael Hays, and Laurie Anderson. Scanning: The Aberrant Architectures of Diller + Scofidio. New York: Whitney Museum of Art, 2003.

Brown, Donald E. Human Universals. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1991.

Butler, Judith, Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Žižek. Contingency, Hegemony, Universality. London: Verso, 2000.

Copjec, Joan. Imagine There's No Woman: Ethics and Sublimation. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2003.

Delanda, Manuel. Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy. New York: Continuum, 2002.

Deleuze, Gilles, and Felix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987.

Derrida, Jacques, and Bernard Stiegler. Echographies of Television. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2002.

Derrida, Jacques. Monolingualism of the Other; or, The Prosthesis of Origin. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998.

Doane, Mary Ann. The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the Archive. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002.

Gitelman, Lisa. Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines: Representing Technology in the Edison Era. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000.

Gitelman, Lisa, and Geoffrey B. Pingree, eds. New Media, 1740-1915. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2003.

Gouldner, Alvin. The Dialectic of Ideology and Technology: The Origins, Grammar, and Future of Ideology. New York: The Seabury Press, 1976.

Haraway, Donna. The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness. Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2003.

Hayles, Katherine. How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Luhmann, Niklas. Love As Passion: The Codification of Intimacy. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998.

Luhmann, Niklas. Theories of Distinction: Redescribing the Descriptions of Modernity. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002.

Lyotard, Jean-François. The Inhuman: Reflections on Time, translated by Geoffrey Bennington and Rachel Bowlby. Stanford: Stanford University Press 1992.

Massumi, Brian. Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002.

ten Berge, Jos. "Dream Machines: New Media as Intoxicants," in Stimuli: Too much noise. Too much movement. Rotterdam: Witte de With, center for contemporary art.

Žižek, Slavoj. Organs without Bodies: On Deleuze and Consequences. New York: Routledge, 2004.