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Reading List
This work is the culmination of three year’s research and is informed by countless books, articles, talks and conversations.
Articles
Bookmarked online under this Pinboard tag with a selection printed out for reading in the gallery.
Books
These titles are available to read in the gallery during the show. (Mostly Amazon links - other booksellers are available.)
Art
Michael Coveney - Ken Campbell - The Great Caper
Bill Drummond - The 17
Bill Drummond - 45
Nicholas Felton - Photoviz
JAMMs - 2023
Office For Creative Research - Journal #002
Omar Kholeif - You Are Here - Art After The Internet
Richard Moss - Incoming
Robert Shore - Beg, Steal & Borrow - Artists Against Originality
Tech
Ingrid Burrington - Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure
Ed Finn - What Algorithms Want
GLI.TC/H 20111 - READER[R0R]
Adam Greenfield - Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life
Jarrett Kobek - I Hate The Internet
Angela Nagle - Kill All Normies: Online culture wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the alt-right
Cathy O’Neil - Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Various - Manifestos For The Internet Age
Capitalism
Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
Paul Mason - PostCapitalism: A Guide to Our Future
Nick Srnicek & Alex Williams - Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
Philosophy
John Higgs - The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds
Vilem Flusser - Towards a Philosophy of Photography
Sarah Kofman - Camera Obscura of Ideology
Martin Lister - The Photographic Image in Digital Culture
John Durham Peters - The Marvellous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media
Timothy Snyder - On Tyrany - 20 Lessons From The 20th Century
David Stubbs - Fear of Music - Why people get Rothko but don’t get Stockhausen
Robert Anton Wilson - Cosmic Trigger
Robert Anton Wilson & Robert Shea - The Illuminatus! Trilogy
Place
John Higgs - Watling Street
Crab Man - Counter-Tourism Handbook
Georges Perec - An Attempt At Exhausting A Place In Paris
John Wilks - Walks Through History - Birmingham