Tenative Reading List

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future of Los Angeles (Mike Davis)

Disscussed during the first week of class

Boob Jubilee: The Mad Cultural Politics of the New Economy (Thomas Frank)

Discussed during the second week of class

Parables For The Virtual (Brian Massumi) – Introduction

Discussed during the second week of class

A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari)

Discussed during the third and fourth weeks of class

A user’s guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Brian Massumi)

Used in conjuction with the previous text, to promote better understanding

Nietzsche:

The Birth of a Nation

Homer’s Contest

The Greek State

Discipline and Punish (Michel Foucault)

Guitar Army: Rock & Revolution With the MC5 and the White Panther Party (John Sinclair)

Potential meeting with John Sinclair, the author of the text

The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Jane Jacobs)

Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-Made Landscape (James Howard Kunstler)

Mind Invaders (Ed. Stewart Home):

The Filth:

Imaginary Cities: Detroit (MOCAD)

The Birth of Tragedy (Nietzsche):

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (Philip K. Dick):

Brian Rotman:

Becoming Beside Oneself

Corporeal or Gesturo-haptic writing

Ghost effects

Going Parallel

William Burroughs:

The Limits of Control Notes

Jeffrey Nealon:

Periodizing the 80s

Gilles Deleuze:

Desire and Pleasure

Postscript on the Societies of Control

Control and Becoming (Deleuze and Negri)

The Alphabetic Body

Additional reading(s) if time permits:

Linked (Albert-Laszlo Barabasi)