reads
a running list of books—some read, some waiting, some always in rotation. this serves as a reference point; an evolving archive of thought. i lean towards philosophy, high-tech abstraction, experimental literature, and cyberpunk dystopias. technical documentation and deconstructions of systems (human or otherwise) also have a place here.
books that shaped my worldview will have [✦] next to them.
for manga and anime, my anilist tracks my favorite works.
philosophy & theory
- Adorno, Theodor - Minima Moralia
- Arendt, Hannah - The Human Condition
- Baudrillard, Jean - Simulacra and Simulation [✦]
- Camus, Albert - The Myth of Sisyphus
- Debord, Guy - The Society of the Spectacle [✦]
- Derrida, Jacques - Of Grammatology
- Engels, Friedrich - The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich - Phenomenology of Spirit
- Kant, Immanuel - Critique of Pure Reason
- Kierkegaard, Søren - The Concept of Anxiety
- Kropotkin, Peter - The Conquest of Bread
- Lacan, Jacques - Écrits
- Nietzsche, Friedrich - Beyond Good and Evil [✦]
- Sartre, Jean-Paul - Being and Nothingness
- Schopenhauer, Arthur - The World as Will and Representation
- Žižek, Slavoj - The Sublime Object of Ideology
- Descartes, René - Meditations on First Philosophy
- Deleuze & Guattari - A Thousand Plateaus
- Feyerabend, Paul - Against Method
- Foucault, Michel - Discipline and Punish [✦]
- Heidegger, Martin - Being and Time
- Kaczynski, Theodore - Industrial Society and Its Future
- Kierkegaard, Søren - Either/Or
- Marx, Karl - Grundrisse
- McLuhan, Marshall - Understanding Media
- Nietzsche, Friedrich - Thus Spoke Zarathustra [✦]
- Virilio, Paul - The Information Bomb
technology & cybernetics
- Wiener, Norbert - Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine [✦]
- Haraway, Donna - A Cyborg Manifesto
- Sterling, Bruce - The Hacker Crackdown
- Stallman, Richard - Free Software, Free Society
- Dyson, George - Turing’s Cathedral
- Barbrook & Cameron - The Californian Ideology
- Ford, Martin - Rise of the Robots
- Brooks, Frederick - The Mythical Man-Month
- Galloway, Alexander - The Interface Effect
- Lanier, Jaron - Who Owns the Future?
- Minsky, Marvin - The Society of Mind
- Moggridge, Bill - Designing Interactions
- Moravec, Hans - Mind Children
- Schneier, Bruce - Secrets and Lies [✦]
- Winner, Langdon - The Whale and the Reactor
cyberpunk & speculative fiction
- Dick, Philip K. - A Scanner Darkly
- Ellison, Harlan - I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
- Gibson, William - Neuromancer [✦]
- Le Guin, Ursula K. - The Dispossessed
- Orwell, George - 1984 [✦]
- Orwell, George - Animal Farm [✦]
- Pynchon, Thomas - Gravity’s Rainbow
- Shirley, John - City Come A-Walkin’
- Stephenson, Neal - Snow Crash
- Vinge, Vernor - True Names
hacking & security
- Abelson & Ledeen - Privacy, Security, and How to Be Free
- Mitnick, Kevin - The Art of Deception
- Raymond, Eric - The Cathedral and the Bazaar
- Schneier, Bruce - Applied Cryptography
- Stoll, Clifford - The Cuckoo’s Egg
mathematics & logic
- Shannon, Claude - A Mathematical Theory of Communication
- Turing, Alan - Computing Machinery and Intelligence
- Penrose, Roger - The Emperor’s New Mind
- Knuth, Donald - The Art of Computer Programming
- Mandelbrot, Benoît - The Fractal Geometry of Nature
- Chaitin, Gregory - Meta Math!
- Gödel, Kurt - On Formally Undecidable Propositions
- Hofstadter, Douglas - Gödel, Escher, Bach [✦]
- Russell, Bertrand - Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
misc & experimental
- Borges, Jorge Luis - Labyrinths [✦]
- Calvino, Italo - Invisible Cities
- Delillo, Don - White Noise
- House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski
- Jünger, Ernst - The Glass Bees
- Perec, Georges - Life: A User's Manual
