Recommended Reading
I'm a visiting lecturer in Linz at the moment and I put together a spur of the moment reading list for my students - I thought I'd share here too!
24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep by Jonathan Crary
Capitalist Realism and The Weird and the Eerie by Mark Fisher
Boredom and Art: Passions Of The Will to Boredom by Julian Jason Haladyn
Watch This Space by Francesca Gavin (distributed via Antenne Books)
Colin de Land, American Fine Arts by Dennis Balk
‘High Rise’, Complete Short Stories and ‘Concrete Island’ by JG Ballard
‘To Our Friends’ and ‘The Coming Insurrection’ by Invisible Committee
The Artist as Curator Edited by Elena Filipovic
Notes on Funk by Adrien Piper
Can Jokes Bring Down Governments? By Metahaven
An attempt at exhausting a place in Paris by Georges Perec
Theft is Vision by Bob Nickas
Forced Entries by Jim Carroll
The Secret War Between Uploading and Downloading by Peter Lunenfeld
Svetlana Boym on Off Modernism
Hennessey Youngman on Relational Aesthetics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yea4qSJMx4
Whitechapel Documents of Art series of books
House by Yu Ogata and Ichiro Ogata Ono
Collage Culture by Mandy Kahn, Aaron Rose and Brian Roettinger