Texts from Theories of Media I would like to get cozier with:
Adorno, "Culture Industry Reconsidered"
Baudrillard, For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign
Bolter and Grosin, Remediation: Understanding New Media
Hayles, How We Became Posthuman
Kittler, Gramaphone, Film, Typewriter
Luhman, The Reality of Mass Media
Manovich, The Language of New Media
Rutsky, High Techne: Art and Technoculture from the Machine Aesthetic to the Posthuman
More Theory Please…
Barthes, Camera Lucida
Benjamin, Illuminations
Butler, Gender Trouble
_____, The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection
Deleuze, Difference and Repetition
_____, The Logic of Sense
Zizek, Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates
_____, Bodies without Organs
_____, Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism: Five Interventions in the (Mis)use of a Notion
Thinking Media in Don DeLillo:
Americana, Cosmopolis, The Day Room, End Zone, Libra, Mao II, The Names, Ratner’s Star, The Running Dog, Underworld, White Noise, Valparaiso
My "reading list" is more like a list of reading lists which consist of a patchwork of some of my interests. The first is a set of texts from class I would like to spend more time reading and thinking about. The second is a partial list of theoretical texts which are relevant to media theory and which I desperately feel like I need to read. When it comes to theory, I feel like the Dutch boy at the dam, trying to plug up the holes as fast as I can before the dam bursts and I am swept away. The third list consists of a good portion of Don DeLillo’s texts. Another member and I are toying with developing a "dream class" which would use DeLillo to demonstrate and engage with issues from media theory.