Maria McVarish orals reading list
speculative futures/critical strategy/social practice [Lochlann Jain]:
Adorno, Theodor and Horkheimer, Max. The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass
Deception.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1944/cultureindustry.htm [Source: most of one chapter from Dialectic of Enlightenment]
-- ‘Dialectic of Enlightenment’ (1942).
www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/adorno.htm
Appadurai, Arjun. Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998.
Benjamin, Walter. The Arcades Project. Cambridge, Mass/London, England: The
Belnap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999.
Boorstin, Daniel. The Image. Mitcham, Victoria (Australia): Penguin Books, 1961.
Boym, Svetlana. The Future of Nostalgia. New York: Basic Books, 1991.
Burdick, Ann and Drucker, Johanna. Digital Humanities. Cambridge, MA: The MIT
Press, 2012.
Drucker, Johanna. Graphesis: Visual knowledge production and representation.
Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press, 2014.
Flusser, Vilem. The Shape of Things: A Philosophy of Design. London, England:
Reaktion Books, 1993 (1999, English translation).
Foster, Hal. The Anti Aesthetic. Seattle: Bay Press, 1983.
-- Design and Crime. New York: Verso, 2002.
Haraway, Donna. ‘A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in
the Late Twentieth Century’ in Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of
Nature. New York: Routledge, 1991. 149-82.
-- ‘Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of
Partial Perspective’ in Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. New
York: Routledge, 1991.
-- Primate Visions: Gender, Race and Nature in the World of Modern Science.
New York and London: Routledge, 1989.
Jain, Lochlann. ‘Dangerous Instrumentality’ in Cultural Anthropology 19(1):61–94,
American Anthropological Association, 2004.
-- Malignant: How Cancer Becomes Us. University of California Press: Berkeley
and Los Angeles, 2013.
Latour, Bruno. ‘The Berlin key or how to do words with things’ in Brown Matter,
Materiality and Modern Culture. (P.M. Graves) London: Routledge, 1991.
-- ‘Circulating Reference’ in Pandora’s Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science
Studies. Harvard University Press, 1999.
Lowenthal, David. The Past is a Foreign Country. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge
University Press, 1985.
Margolin, Victor. The Politics of the Artificial: Essays on Design and Design Studies.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.
McLuhan, Marshall. Media Research: Technology, Art, Communication. Australia: G+B
Arts International, 1997.
Stafford, Barbara Maria. Visual Analogy: Consciousness as the Art of Connecting.
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1999.
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literary space/form, epistemology [Franco Moretti]:
Bakhtin, Mikhail. The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays. Edited by Michael Holquist.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981.
Barthes, Roland. Image – Music – Text. New York: Hill and Wang, 1977/2000.
-- Mythologies. New York: The Noonday Press, 1993.
Bourdieu, Pierre. The Logic of Practice. Richard Nice, trans. Oxford: Polity Press, 1990.
Chatman, Seymour. ‘Introduction’ in Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction
and Film. Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1978.
-- ‘Story: Existents’ in Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and
Film. Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1978.
Clifford, James. Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2010.
Foucault, Michel. ‘Preface’ to The Order of Things: An Archeology of the Human
Sciences. New York: Vintage Books, a division of Random House, 1994.
-- ‘Classifying’ in The Order of Things: An Archeology of the Human Sciences.
New York: Vintage Books, a division of Random House, 1994.
Frank, Joseph. The Idea of Spatial Form. New Brunswick & London: Rutgers University
Press, 1991.
Genette, Gérard. Palimpsests: literature in the second degree. Channa Newman,
translator. Publisher? Location? 1982.
Ingarden, Roman. The Literary Work of Art: An Investigation of the Borderlines of
Ontology, Logic, and the Theory of Literature. George G. Grabowicz, trans.
Evanston: Northwestern Univ. Press, 1973.
Jakobson, Roman. ‘Linguistics and Poetics’ in Language in Literature. Pomorska,
Krystyna and Rudy, Stephen, editors. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1987.
-- ‘Two Aspects of Language and Two Types of Aphasic Disturbances’ in
Language in Literature. Pomorska, Krystyna and Rudy, Stephen, editors. Cambridge,
MA: Belknap Press, 1987.
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim. Laocoon: An Essay Upon the Limits of Poetry and Painting.
Ellen Frothingham, trans. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1969.
Love, Heather. ‘Close but not Deep: Literary Ethics and the Descriptive Turn,’ in New
Literary History special issue: “New Sociologies of Literature,” 2010.
Moretti, Franco. ‘The Slaughterhouse of Literature,’ in MLQ: Modern Language
Quarterly, Volume 61, Number 1: March 2000, Duke University Press. (207-227)
-- and Piazza, Alberto. Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for Literary
History. London: Verso, 2005. [or: new left review 24 nov dec 2003]
de Saussure, Ferdinand. ‘Nature of the Linguistic Sign’ in Course in General Linguistics.
Harris, Roy, translator. Chicago and La Salle: Open Court, 2000.
-- ‘Linguistic Value’ in Course in General Linguistics. Harris, Roy, translator.
Chicago and La Salle: Open Court, 2000.
Yates, Frances. The Art of Memory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974.
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place/space/memory [Zephyr Frank]:
Bhabha, Homi K. ‘Introduction’ to The Location of Culture. London: Routledge, 1994.
Burgin, Victor. In/Different Spaces: Place and Memory in Visual Culture. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1996.
Carter, Paul. The Road to Botany Bay: An Exploration of Landscape and History.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
de Certeau, Michel. The Practice of Everyday Life. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University
of California Press, 1988.
Cosgrove, Denis E. Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape. Madison, WI: The
University of Wisconsin Press, 2008.
Deleuze, Gilles and Guattari, Felix. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia.
Massumi, Brian, translator. Minneapolis: The University of Minneapolis Press, 1987.
Deloria, Philip J. "Places Like Houses, Banks, and Continents: An Appreciative Reply to
the Presidential Address." in American Quarterly 58 (1): 23-29, 2006
Foucault, Michel. ‘Of Other Spaces’ in Diacritics 16 (1): 22-27, 1967/1986.
Gibson-Graham, J.K. ‘Introduction’ in A Postcapitalist Politics. Minneapolis/London:
University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
Halttunen, Karen. "Groundwork: American Studies in Place—Presidential Address to the
American Studies Association, Nov. 4, 2005." in American Quarterly 58 (1): 1-15
(2006).
Harvey, David. Spaces of Hope. Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California Press,
2000.
Jackson, J.B. A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time. New Haven: Yale University Press,
1994.
Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. New York: Vintage Books,
1961.
Keith, Michael, and Steve Pile, eds. Place and the Politics of Identity. New York:
Routledge, 1993.
Lefebvre, Henri. The Production of Space. Blackwell Publishers, Inc., Malden,
Massachusetts: 1998.
Meinig, Donald. The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes: Geographical Essays.
Oxford University Press, Inc., 1979.
More, Thomas. Utopia. Paul Turner, translator. London: Penguin Books, 2003.
Norberg-Schulz, Christian. Existence, Space and Architecture. 1971.
Schorske, Carl. Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture. Random House, Inc.: New
York, 1980.
Scott, James. ‘2: Cities, People, and Language’ and ‘4: The High-Modernist City: An
Experiment and a Critique’ from Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve
the Human Condition Have Failed. Yale University Press, 1998.
Sennett, Richard. Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization. W.W.
Norton & Company, Inc.: New York and London, 1976/1996.
Tilley, Christopher. ‘Space, Place, Landscape and Perception: Phenomenological
Perspectives.’ in A Phenomenology of Landscape: Places, Paths and Monuments.
Oxford/Providence: Berg Publishers, 1994.
-- ‘The Social Construction of Landscape in Small-Scale Societies: Structures of
Meaning, Structures of Power.’ in A Phenomenology of Landscape: Places, Paths and
Monuments. Oxford/Providence: Berg Publishers, 1994
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the American West, railroad, rural industrialization, history writing models
[Richard White]:
Booker, Matthew. Down by the Bay: San Francisco’s History Between the Tides.
University of California Press: Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 2013.
Cronon, William. Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. [add
publisher/venue info. here] 1991.
Didion, Joan. Where I was From. Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc.: New
York, 2003.
Hoxie, Frederick. This Indian Country: American Indian Activists and the Place They
Made. Penguin Press: New York, 2012.
Hurtado, Albert L. Indian Survival on the California Frontier. Yale University Press,
1988.
Johnson, Susan. Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush. W.W.
Norton and Company, Inc.: New York and London, 2000.
Kelman, Ari. A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling Over the Memory of Sand Creek.
Harvard University Press: Cambridge, MA, 2013.
Kroeber, Theodora. Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North
America. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles: 2002.
Nash, Linda. Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease and Knowledge.
University of California Press: Berkeley and Los Angeles, 2006.
Nelson-Limerick, Patricia. Something in the Soil: Legacies and Reckonings in the New
West. New York/London: WW Norton & Company, Inc., 2000.
Orsi, Richard J. Sunset Limited: The Southern Pacific Railroad and the Development of
the American West, 1850-1930. University of California Press: Berkeley and Los
Angeles, 2005.
Pisani, Donald. From Family Farm to Agribusiness: The Irrigation Crusade in
California, 1850-1931. University of California Press, 1984.
Rawls, James J. Indians of California: The Changing Image. University of Oklahoma
Press, 1986.
Rohrbough, Malcolm. Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American
Nation. University of California Press: Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1997.
Sandweiss, Martha. Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across
the Color Line. The Penguin Press, 2009.
Shelton, Tamara Venit. A Squatter’s Republic: Land and the Politics of Monopoly in
California, 1850-1900. University of California Press: Berkeley, 2013.
Solnit, Rebecca. River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild
West. Viking, 2003.
Twain, Mark (condensed and adapted by W.T. Robinson). The Adventures of Tom
Sawyer. Dalmation Press: Franklin, TN. 2013.
-- Roughing It. American Publishing Company, 1872. Web:
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Roughing_It
Warren, Louis. ‘Wage Work in the Sacred Circle: The Ghost Dance as Modern Religion’
in Western Historical Quarterly. Summer 2015, Vol. 46 Issue 2, pp. 141-168.
West, Elliott. The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story (Pivotal Moments in American
History). Oxford University Press: New York, 2009.
White, Richard. Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America.
New York: WW Norton & Company, 2011.
Wilkerson, Isabel. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great
Migration. New York: Random House, 2010.
Worster, Donald. Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American
West. Oxford University Press, 1985/1992.
-- A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir. Oxford University Press, Inc.:
New York, 2008.
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