reading list

call for ENGAGEMENT to end sexism in the arts
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Stefano Harney and Fred Moten
The Undercommons: Fugitive planning & Black Study

Sara Ahmed
Living a Feminist Life

Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, Nancy Fraser
Feminism for the 99%, a Manifesto

Karen Barad
Meeting the Universe Halfway

adrienne maree brown

Emergent Strategy

Pleasure Activism

Audre Lorde

your silence will not protect you (collection)

Ali Smith
Artful

Anne Bogart
And Then, You Act

Juliet Jacques
Trans: A Memoir

Jeanette Winterson
Written on the Body
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Art Objects

Joan Didion
A Year of Magical Thinking
Blue Nights

Italo Calvino
If On A Winter Night’s A Traveller
Six Memos For The Next Millennium

Virginia Woolf
A Room of One’s Own

Jorge Luis Borges
The Library of Babel [short story]

Haruki Murakami
Kafka on the Shore

Mikhail Bulgakov
The Master and Margarita

William Gibson
Neuromancer

Samuel R. Delany
Babel-17

Octavia E. Butler

Kindred

Parable of the Sower

Parable of the Talents

Bloodchild (short story)

Lilith's Brood AKA the Xenogenesis trilogy

Ursula K. le Guin

The Left Hand of Darkness

The Earthsea Cycle

Sophie Lucido Johnson

Many Love

Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen
Sensing, Feeling, and Action

Antonio Damasio
The Feeling of What Happens

Oliver Sacks
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat

Steve Silberman
Neurotribes

Daniel Pinchbeck
Breaking Open The Head

Roland Barthes
The Death of The Author

Jonathan Burrows
A Choreographer’s Handbook

Peggy Phelan
Ontology of Performance – last chapter in book Unmarked

Erika Fischer-Lichte
The Transformative Power of Performance, A New Aesthetics

Susan Leigh Foster
Choreographing Empathy

Sally Banes
Democracy’s Body

James Loxley
Performativity

Judith Butler
Gender Trouble
Bodies that Matter
Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly
first chapter of Notes goes back to Gender Trouble and rewrites some points very clearly, slightly easier to read could be good introduction to Gender Trouble

Michel Foucault
The History of Sexuality

Cacilda Jethá and Christopher Ryan
Sex at Dawn

Paul B Preciado
Testo Junkie

J L Austin
How To Do Things With Words?

Paolo Virno
A Grammar of The Multitude

Guy Debord
Society of The Spectacle

Byung-Chul Han
The Burnout Society
The Transparency Society

Srećko Horvat
The Radicality of Love

bell hooks

all about love