Archive for June 2008
Reading List
Reading List
I have compiled this list at the request of several students. It will shift and expand over time. It currently contains a selection of books read and remembered from 1990 to present- primarily ones that I am still utilizing to one extent or another. I am currently most involved with the works regarding Oury, and Deligny and am reading Frame, Beradt, Cavafy and Kennedy.
LIST
THEORY and PSYCHOANALYSIS and POLITICS
Benjamin, Walter. Walter Benjamin’s Archive: Images, Tests, Signs.
Beradt, Charlotte.Third Reich of Dreaming
Bey, Hakim. T.A.Z. The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism
Blanchot, Maurice. Writing the Disaster
Cadava, Eduardo. (His work on the ‘politics of tears’ may be found in Cities without Citizens)
Clemente, Catherine. Syncope: The Philosophy of Rapture
Deligny, Fernand. (French Pedagogue/ Autism specialist)
Dolar, Mladen. A Voice and Nothing More
Heller-Roazan, Daniel. Echolalias.
Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Fanon, Franz. The Wretched of the Earth
Lefebvre, Eric R. The Monk/Manager
Moretti, Franco. Graphs, Maps, Trees
Nancy, Jean-Luc. On Love and Community
Oury, Jean. The Hospital is Ill
Sebald, W.G. On the Natural History of Destruction.
Sobel, Mechal. The World They Made Together: Black and White Values in 18th Century Virginia
Stewart, Susan. On Longing
Torok and Abraham: The Wolfman’s Magic Word: A Cryptonomy
LITERATURE and POETRY
Bierce, Ambrose. The Devil’s Dictionary and Shadows of Blue and Gray
Blanchot, Maurice. Death Sentence
Camus, Albert. Notebooks 1935-1951
Carson, Anne. Decreation.
Cavafy, Constantine P. The Complete Poems of Cavafy
Didion, Joan. The White Album.
Duras, Marguerite. Emily L. and The War: A Memoir
Ellison, Ralph. The Invisible Man
Faulkner, William The Sound and the Fury
Frame, Janet. Daughter Buffalo
Gordimer, Nadine. The House Gun
Jelinek, Elfreide. Lust.
Kennedy, Adrienne. The Adrienne Kennedy Reader
Komunyakaa, Yusef. Neon Vernacular
Musil, Robert. The Man Without Qualities and Diaries (1899-1941)
Mandelstaam, Osip. The Noise of Time
Peri Rossi,Cristina. Museum of Useless Efforts and State of Exile
Rich, Adrienne. The Dream of a Common Language and Dark Fields of the Republic
Sze, Arthur. Archipelago
Villarutia, Xavier. Nostalgia for Death & Hieroglyphs of Desire
Wittig, Monique. Les Guerilles
Wright, Richard. Native Son
MISCELLANY
Artaud’s spells
Iscariot, Judas. The Lost Gospel of Judas
Martin, Agnes. Writings
Triore, Saliou. Let Me Be Your Dictionary
Tufte, Edward. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Mather, Cotton. The Wonders of the Invisible World (Boston 1683)
Mather, Increase. Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits (Boston 1693)
Randolph, Vance. Editor and Collector. Ozark Folk Songs
Zhang Schichuan: An Amorous History of the Silver Screen (1931)
Self-Glossary
(This self-glossary rapidly details my research interests, visual, sonic, and otherwise.)
Air-borne data (radio operas, subsonic animal sounds, war pamphlets)
Baskets used to lower Chinese railroad workers 2,000 feet down granite cliffs to set explosives (Sierra Nevadas)
Bibles in shorthand
Bomb craters (repurposed)
Bonfires as aesthetic/political object
Ceramic chest plates of typical gunshot wound patterns (1940)
Confederate Schoolbooks
Congregation of the last three hundred years as seen by
Dam-eradicated townships (Neversink and Bittersweet)
(the) devouring cannon
Death assemblages of plateosaurus herds
Diagrams of radioactive animal dung (Hanford)
Drawings related to blast furnaces and early iron forges – 1938
Croatan
El caballo – the horse racing periodical for the Argentinian gentleman horseman
Emily Dickinson’s punctuation
Flooded mines (Widow Jane Mine)
Forts (hand made)
Frank J. Sprague – inventor of the high-speed elevator
Funeral pie
Great Dismal Swamp
Heart Mountain’s Japanese-American relocation camp jazz orchestra
Horse-powered ferries
(Moby Dick breaks Ahab’s) ivory leg
Italian East Africa’s fascist architecture
Johan Ludwig Caspar’s bloodstain, blisters, and bullet wound lithographs (1864)
(A grainy film clip of a) boxing kangaroo pitted against humans; she is fitted with gloves
Land-line: outline of the land against sea and sky (1875)
left-handed saw right-handed
Loos’s unbuilt home for Josephine Baker, including a two-story swimming pool, encased in windows
Love’s Geodaesia (1689)
Madagascaran Pirate ship bands
Norma, the Surveyor’s Level
(the) peasant-airplane encounter (USSR)
Platte’s “Discovery of Sub Terranean Pleasure (1754)
psychological diagnostic that mimics and employs weather systems
Ragsdale Gunshot Wound Study (1984)
Revolutionary forgetting
(the) ripped out rudder
Rogue wave behavior
(Basque) sheepherder symbols (inscribed onto American trees)
Snake River Massacre (1887) – a remaining skull used as a sugarbowl in nearby ranchhouse
Temporary landscapes revealed by searchlights
(the production of) tornado drawings (in Oklahoman grammar schools)
Tourist cave stalagmite organ waltz
Traces (glacier)
Trout Creek Outrage
Underwater knife scene
Vine bridges
Versioning
Wolf, Mary (the mirror-witch)
