On Critical Theory:
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
Society of the Spectacle -- Guy Debord
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
History and Class Consciousness -- Georg Lukacs
Theory of the Novel -- Georg Lukacs
Women, Resistance and Revolution -- Sheila Rowbotham
Culture and Imperialism -- Edward Said
The Poverty of Theory and Other Essays -- E. P. Thompson
On Cities:
The Arcades Project -- Walter Benjamin
Planet of Slums -- Mike Davis
The Death and Life of Great American Cities -- Jane Jacobs
The Image of the City -- Kevin Lynch
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
On Villages:
Agrarian Revolt in a Mexican Village -- Paul Friedrich
Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance -- James Scott
Shamanism, Colonialism and the Wild Man: A Study in Terror and Healing -- Michael Taussig
Europe and the People Without History -- Eric Wolf
