An ancient library now a ruin
Books from the past to the present to the future
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” Albert Einstein
“Those who fail to re-read are obliged to read the same story everywhere.” Roland Barthes
“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
Socrates
Since I am listing books, my poetry book on iBooks
My photography book on iBooks; My photography iBook
My artist book in The Tate special archive of artists books Tate
More iBooks by me coming soon.
Reference points, ways of thinking, ways of seeing the world, the worlds of possibilities
Enjoy the booklist.
The Iliad
The Odyssey
By Homer
Translated to prose by E.V.Rieu
Mythologies
Camera Lucida
Image-Music-Text
A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments
The Rustle Of Language
by Roland Barthes
If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler
Invisible Cities
Cosmicomics
by Italo Calvino
On Photography
Against Interpretation
Styles Of Radical Will
Regarding The Pain Of Others
by Susan Sontag
The Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho
The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
The Differend
The Postmodern Explained to Children
The Inhuman: Reflections on Time
by Jean-Francois Lyotard
Poems
by T S Eliot
Paul Klee Notebooks
by Paul Klee
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
One-Way Street and Other Writings
Illuminations
by Walter Benjamin
The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project
by Walter Benjamin unfinished project by Susan Buck-Morss
The Republic
Apology
various other texts
by Plato
The Second Sex
by Simone de Beauvoir
The Four Fundamentals of Psychoanalysis
Écrits
by Jacques Lacan
On The Museum’s Ruins
by Douglas Crimp
The Golden Bough
by James George Frazer
Mille Plateaux
Nomadology: The War Machine
by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes
The Birth of Venus
by Sarah Dunant
Tao Te Ching
(The Way)
by Lao-Tzu
Popular Defence & Ecological Struggles
Speed and Politics
by Paul Virilio
The Handmaid’s Tale
by Margaret Atwood
Remaking History
Discussions in Contemporary Culture #4
Edited by Barbara Kruger & Phil Mariani
The Age of Reason
The Reprieve
Iron in the Soul
Nausea
No Exit
Being And Nothingness
(though only parts & various essays of ‘Being And Nothingness’)
The Philosophy of Jean Paul Sartre
by Jean Paul Sartre
The Golden Ass
by Asinus Aureus
The Stranger
The Plague
The Fall
The Rebel
The Myth Of Sisyphus and other essays
The Albert Camus Collection
by Albert Camus
The Order Of Things
The Archaeology Of Knowledge
by Michel Foucalt
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
Cool Memories
Simulacra and Simulation
The Mirror of Production
Seduction
Fatal Strategies
Simulations
America
The Ecstasy of Communication
The Transparency of Evil
by Jean Baudrillard
Catcher In The Rye
by J. D. Salinger
Ethics
by Spinoza
Chrome Yellow
Brave New World
The Doors Of Perception, Heaven and Hell
Those Barren Leaves
Eyeless In Gaza
Point Counter Point
Island
by Aldous Huxley
Interpreting Contemporary Art
Edited by Stephen Bann & William Allen
Cider With Rosie
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
by Laurie Lee
Tender Is The Night
The Beautiful And The Damned
This Side of Paradise
The Great Gatsby
The Love of the Last Tycoon
(And various short stories and some of his letters)
Who is my favourite American writer of fiction
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Truth in Painting
Writing and Difference
Of Grammatology
by Jacques Derrida
The Prince
Discourses On The First Decade of Titus Livius
by Niccolo Machiavelli
Neuromancer
Count Zero
by William Gibson
Neuromancer
Count Zero
by William Gibson
The Critical Image: Essays on Contemporary Photography
Edited by Carol Squiers
The Shock of the New: Art and the Century of Change
by Robert Hughes
To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
Selection of Poems
by Federico García Lorca
Man and His Symbols
by Carl Jung
Art in Theory
1900-1990
An Anthology of Changing Ideas
edited Charles Harrison and Paul Wood
Postmodernism Critical Concepts
Edited by Victor E. Taylor, Charles E. Winquist
The Anti-Aesthetic
ESSAYS ON POSTMODERN CULTURE
Edited by Hal Foster
Ways of Seeing
About Looking
by John Berger
The Sublime
Edited by Simon Morely
Selection of Poems
by Arthur Rimbaud
Stories From Le Morte Arthur And The Mabinogion
by Beatrice E. Clay
ORIGINS:
How the Earth Shaped Human History
By
Lewis Dartnell
(ORIGINS a book that anyone with a claim to think should read, and reflect on)
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
by
Yuval Noah Harari
I finished reading Sapiens on 21st May 2020 just after reading ORIGINS, much of what I read in Sapiens I had already read and researched myself in the past so maybe it helped with many of the references and ideas in Sapiens, though it seems to be written in such a fluid and informative way that whether you do not know any of the histories or ideas in Sapiens you will by the end and the overall vastness both in time and concepts and the way they are put together is wonderful. If you read 2 books this year I would recommend you read ORIGINS and Sapiens.
Will add more books I have read later