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Art

Thierry de Duve
• Pictorial Nominalism
  Duchamp's invention of the Readymade
Gilles Deleuze
• Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation
Demonstration of "expression" theorized in the study on Spinoza

Consulting

John Raulston Saul
• Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West
  A critique of social dependency on "experts."

Creativity

Silvano Arieti
• Creativity
  Creative thinking shares the structure of the fallacy and the joke

Film

Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Ed.
• Cinematographic Apparatus: Selected Writings
  The concept of apparatus as social machine, part technology, part ideology.
Robert Ray
• The ABCs of Classic Hollywood
  An example of applied heuretics in cincema studies

Grammatology

Benedict Anderson
• Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
  Print literacy explicitly connected with the nation-state as collective identity
Walter Benjamin
• "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," in Illuminations
  Takes technology into account in thinking about modernism
Jacques Derrida
• Of Grammatology
  The history of writing in the context of philosophy
Jack Goody
• *Domestication of the Savage Mind
  Anthropologist's comparison of oral and literate "intellectuals." The "list" as literate form.
Eric Havelock
• *The Muse Learns to Write: Reflections on Orality and Literacy from Antiquity to the Present
  Introductory overview.
• Preface to Plato
  Detailed study of the invention of Philosophy.
Martin Heidegger
• Introduction to Metaphysics
The invention of Philosophy by the Ancient Greeks
Friedrich Kittler
• Discourse Networks 1800/1900
  Condensation of apparatus history into one emblematic scene (one for each century addressed). Sets up the question: what about discourse network 2000?
Marshall McLuhan
• *The Gutenberg Galaxy: the Making of Typographic Man.
  The prototype for reading cultural history through technologies of language. Criticized for its technological determinism.
Walter Ong,
• *Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word
  A good overview of the "apparatus" question.
• Ramus: Method, and the Decay of Dialogue
  The invention of the outline; the adaptation of logic to the space of the printed page.
Avital Ronell
• The Telephone Book
  Relations of technology and theory approached through a story of invention.
Bernard Stiegler
Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus
Technics and Time, 2: Disorientation
Heidegger's Gestell as opening an alternative understanding of relations among humans, technology and language, other than that of "means and ends."

Hypermedia

Espen J. Aarseth
• *Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature
  A typology of "text" from the I Ching to MUDs.
Lev Manovich
• The Language of New Media
  Cinematography as a cultural interface.
Noah Wardrip-Fruin, and Nick Montfort. Eds.
• A New Media Reader
  Comprehensive collection, juxtaposing arts and theory essays with pieces by inventors and designers.

Image

W. J. T. Mitchell
• Picture Theory
  The pictorial turn in critical reason
Barbara Marie Stafford
• Visual Analogy
  traces the historical passage from analogy to allegory as the basic figuration of macro/micro -cosm relationships.

Memory

Mary Carruthers,
• The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture
  
• The Craft of Thought: Meditation, Rhetoric, and the Making of Images, 400-1200
  Shows memory as a practice was not only an operation of storage but also of invention.
Jonathan D. Spence
• The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci
  Experimental form, using the principles of Ricci's mnemonics to organize the history about Ricci's years as a Jesuit missionary in China.
Frances Yates,
• *The Art of Memory
  The classic introduction to the history of mnemotechnique.

Mystory

Marc Auge
• Casablanca: Movies and Memory
Roland Barthes
• A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
Annette Kuhn *Family Secrets: Acts of Memory and Imagination

Susan Griffin

• A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War

N. Scott Momaday

• The Way to Rainy Mountain

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