Sunday, August 23, 2009

Tentative Notes toward an initial itinerary

Rabelais and His World -- Mikhail Bakhtin
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections -- Walter Benjamin
Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, and Autobiographical Writings -- Walter Benjamin
Ways of Seeing -- John Berger
Shorter Views: Queer Thoughts and the Politics of the Paraliterary -- Samuel Delany
Longer Views: Extended Essays -- Samuel Delany
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison -- Michel Foucault (Reread)
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity -- Michel Foucault
The Pedagogy of the Oppressed -- Paulo Friere (Reread)
Selections from the Prison Notebooks -- Antonio Gramsci (Reread)
Empire -- Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri (Reread)
Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire -- Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center -- bell hooks
The Death and Life of Great American Cities -- Jane Jacobs
History and Class Consciousness -- Georg Lukacs
Theory of the Novel -- Georg Lukacs
The Image of the City -- Kevin Lynch
Culture and Imperialism -- Edward Said
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed -- James Scott
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces -- William H. Whyte

Basically, right now it's just a grab bag o' theory. If ya got suggestions, leave them in the comments.

1 comment:

  1. The Sound and the Fury. Because it's sitting around somewhere in your room waiting for you to read and love it.

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