The Only Ones by Carola Dibbell Two Dollar Radio, May 2015 344 pages – TDR / Amazon Great stories arise out of the virtual mass of incoherency, some tendency or some…
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On the New by Boris Groys Translated by G. M. Goshgarian Verso, July 2014 208 pages – Verso / Amazon In Boris Groys’s book, On the New, Groys argues against…
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The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences by Michael Foucault Random House, 1970 416 pages – Amazon To answer why do things make sense, in The Order of…
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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes Mariner Books, Originally published in 1976 512 pages – Amazon Jaynes isn’t a philosopher. He did…
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Difference and Repetition by Gilles Deleuze Originally published in 1968 Translated by Paul Patton – Columbia University Press, 1994 Amazon This is my second time reading this book. I think the first…
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[[there.]] by Lance Olsen Anti-Oedipus Press, January 2014 Anti-Oedpius / Amazon Written at the time he was in Germany, and perhaps inspired by the novels of David Markson, Olsen takes the…
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The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon Harper Perennial, originally published in 1966 192 pages – Amazon Perusing the reviews of Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 is pretty much like…
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The Haunted Vagina by Carlton Mellick III Eraserhead Press, 2006 Amazon At the heart of this compelling tale (with its title and its cover image) is a fetish of the other—in…
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Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard Translated by Sheila Faria Glaser University of Michigan Press, 1994 Originally Published in French in 1981 UofM Press / Amazon This is not an easy book…
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Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism by Slavoj Žižek Verso Books, May 2012 Verso / Amazon What is “less than nothing” is what is lost in order to…
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“Case Study House No. 22, master bedroom.” Image courtesy of Cohen Gallery and David Weldzius. “Architecture is not simply a platform that accommodates the viewing subject. It is a…
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The modernist project extends itself from Descartes’ aesthetic, to build from Truths, necessary and universal. But what is a universal? Being themselves, universals must necessarily also be a priori. For…