A working bibliography for the project, organized by the threads that shape both the argument and the method.
Theory
Apparatus Theory & Technical Images
- Roland Barthes, Mythologies (esp. “Myth Today”)
- Vilém Flusser, Into the Universe of Technical Images
- Vilém Flusser, Towards a Philosophy of Photography
Spectacle & Manufactured Consent
- Noam Chomsky & Edward Herman, Manufacturing Consent
- Jonathan Crary, 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
- Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle
Enclosure & Political Economy
- Kate Crawford, Atlas of AI
- Cédric Durand, Technofeudalism
- Mariana Mazzucato, The Entrepreneurial State
- Mariana Mazzucato, The Value of Everything
- Ben Tarnoff, Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future
- Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Hype & Hyperstition
- Andreu Belsunces Gonçalves / Hype Studies (Barcelona-based research group, co-founded 2024): hype as a “sociotechnical force”; live research group rather than a single text
- Franco “Bifo” Berardi, After the Future
- Delphi Carstens, “Hyperstition: An Introduction”
- Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism
- Sun-ha Hong, Technologies of Speculation
- CCRU / Nick Land, originating texts on hyperstition
- Evgeny Morozov, To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism
- Fred Turner, From Counterculture to Cyberculture
- Lee Vinsel & Andrew Russell, The Innovation Delusion
Knowledge Production & Epistemic Cultures
- James Bridle, New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
- Sheila Jasanoff, The Fifth Branch / work on sociotechnical imaginaries
- Karin Knorr Cetina, Epistemic Cultures
- Bruno Latour, Science in Action
Neurocapitalism
- Maurizio Lazzarato, Signs and Machines
- Bernard Stiegler, Technics and Time / The Age of Disruption
- Franco Berardi, The Soul at Work
Dramaturgy & Performance
- Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
- Richard Schechner, Performance Studies: An Introduction
Propaganda Aesthetics
- Siegfried Kracauer, From Caligari to Hitler
- Susan Sontag, “Fascinating Fascism,” in Under the Sign of Saturn
A note on this comparison: it’s used here as a provocation about the aesthetics of mastery and staged inevitability, not an equivalence claim.
Methodology
Media Archaeology
- Wolfgang Ernst, Digital Memory and the Archive
- Jussi Parikka, What is Media Archaeology?
Jump-Cut, Collage, Glitch
- Sergei Eisenstein, “The Dramaturgy of Film Form”
- Sam Lavigne, scraping/détournement practice (Stock Photo Alternative, surveillance-data works)
- Legacy Russell, Glitch Feminism
- Hito Steyerl, “In Defense of the Poor Image,” in The Wretched of the Screen
Ridicule as Praxis
- Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna, The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want
“Ridicule as praxis” is Bender and Hanna’s term, also the animating ethic of their podcast Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000.
Artist practice
- Harun Farocki: essay-film practice (Inextinguishable Fire, Images of the World and the Inscription of War); a body of work rather than a single text
- Trevor Paglen, Sites Unseen
- Hito Steyerl, The Wretched of the Screen