I realized I have neglected this ever-changing list…for any who might be interested. So I updated it today…
2016
“I decided to continue drinking and living in just this way.
My whole life long”
– Georges Bataille
Chin-deep in labor, family, relationship & studies…
Works for survival:
Maurice Blanchot, The Space of Literature
Samuel Beckett, The Grove Centenary Editions
Franz Kafka, I Am a Memory Come Alive
Enrique Vila-Matas, Bartleby & Co.
Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus
William James, The Writings of William James
Edmond Jabes, The Book of Questions
Works that expand:
Friedrich Kittler, Discourse Networks, 1800/1900
William Franke, A Philosophy of the Unsayable
Ian Hodder, Studies in Human-Thing Entanglement
Paolo Virno, When the Word Becomes Flesh
Werner Hamacher, Minima Philologica
I’m impressed. I can only read one book at a time.
recent family count of books I set up to read (“in”) this weekend – 62 (sigh)