Media Theory Reading List -- Roberto Kutcher




Bense, Max. Introduction to Informational Aesthetics [Einführung in die informationstheorische Aesthetik]. The self-reality of signs [Die Eigenrealität de Zeichen]

Davidson, Michael. Ghostlier Demarcations: Modern Poetry and the Material Word. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

Derrida, J. "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences", Writing and Difference. University of Chicago Press: 1980.

Flusser, Vilem. Towards a Philosophy of Photography. Reaktion Books: 2000. Writings. University of Minnesota Press: 2002

McGann, Jerome. Black Riders: The Visible Language of Modernism. Princeton U. Press: 1993

McLuhan, M. The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man. University of Toronto Press: 1962.

Melville, Stephen. "Counting/As/Painting", As painting : division and displacement [edited and organized by] Philip Armstrong, Laura Lisbon, and Stephen Melville. MIT Press: c2001.

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. "Eye and Mind", The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and Painting (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy). Northwestern University Press: 1994.

Mignolo, Walter. Writing Without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the Andes. Duke U. Press: 1994

Mitchell, W.J.T. "Spatial Form in Literature: Toward a General Theory", The Language of Images. [edited by] W.J.T. Mitchell. University of Chicago Press: 1980

Ronell, Avital. Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech. University of Nebraska Press: 1989.