Roy Christopher
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I marshal the middle between Mathers and McLuhan: author, artist, poet, ph.d. Books include DEAD PRECEDENTS, BOOGIE DOWN PREDICTIONS, and THE MEDIUM PICTURE: http://roychristopher.com/books Free newsletter: http://roychristopher.substack.com
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William Empson
3readratedSeven Types of Ambiguity
Geoffrey Miller
1readratedSpent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior
Craig Bromberg
4readratedThe Wicked Ways of Malcolm McLaren
Paul Karl Feyerabend
4readratedContra el método
Will Sergeant
3readratedBunnyman: A Memoir
Charlotte Linde
4readratedWorking the Past: Narrative and Institutional Memory
Kevin Kelly
2readratedWhat Technology Wants
Kim Zetter
4readratedCountdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
Daryl Easlea
3readratedWithout Frontiers: The Life & Music of Peter Gabriel
Alissa Nutting
4readratedUnclean Jobs for Women and Girls
James C. Scott
4readratedDomination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts
Michelle McNamara
2readratedI'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
Kim Stanley Robinson
3readratedAurora
Steve Erickson
5readratedDays Between Stations
Marshall McLuhan
3readratedFrom Cliche to Archetype
Rasheedah Phillips
5readratedThe Telescoping Effect, Part 1
Rivers Solomon
5readratedThe Deep
Herman Rapaport
4readratedBetween the Sign and the Gaze
Ytasha L. Womack
5readratedRayla 2212
Ray Bradbury
4readratedFahrenheit 451
Kevin Kelly
3readratedOut of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World
Mike Rothschild
4readratedThe Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything
Patti Smith
3readratedJust Kids
S. Craig Watkins
3readratedThe Young and the Digital: What the Migration to Social Network Sites, Games, and Anytime, Anywhere Media Means for Our Future
Alex Garland
5readratedThe Tesseract
S. Craig Watkins
4readratedHip Hop Matters: Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement
Everett M. Rogers
4readratedDiffusion of Innovations, 5th Edition
Megan Abbott
4readratedDare Me
Mishka Shubaly
4readratedI Swear I'll Make It Up to You: A Life on the Low Road
Joyce Carol Oates
3readratedHazards of Time Travel
Gaston Bachelard
5readratedThe Poetics of Space
Douglas Coupland
3readratedMarshall McLuhan: You Know Nothing of My Work!
Tom O'Neill
N/AreadChaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
Tony D. Sampson
N/AreadVirality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks
McKenzie Wark
4readratedThe Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International
Jack O'Connell
4readratedWord Made Flesh
Giacomo Rizzolatti
3readratedMirrors in the Brain: How Our Minds Share Actions and Emotions
Jeff Guinn
N/AreadManson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson
Rachel Anne Ridge
N/AreadThe Donkey Principle: The Secret to Long-Haul Living in a Racehorse World
Octavia E. Butler
4readratedBloodchild and Other Stories
Sara Varon
5readratedRobot Dreams
Eugene Thacker
4readratedAn Ideal For Living
Amos Tutuola
5readratedThe Palm-Wine Drinkard
Tom Bissell
4readratedExtra Lives: Why Video Games Matter
Thomas Riggs
5readratedSt. James Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Culture
Harlan Ellison
5readratedShatterday
Simon Reynolds
4readratedRetromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past
David Markson
5readratedThis Is Not a Novel
Bettina L. Knapp
4readratedMachine, Metaphor, and the Writer: A Jungian View
Lidia Yuknavitch
4readratedThe Chronology of Water: A Memoir
Jonathan Sterne
4readratedThe Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction
Chris Foss
5readratedHardware: The Definitive SF Works of Chris Foss
Doug Stanhope
5readratedDigging Up Mother: A Love Story
Jodie Archer
4readratedThe Bestseller Code: Anatomy of a Blockbuster Novel
Lavie Tidhar
4readratedUnholy Land
Blake Crouch
3readratedDark Matter
Victor Turner
4readratedDramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society
Victor Turner
3readratedThe Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure
Albert Mudrian
3readratedChoosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal and Grindcore
Jarett Kobek
4readratedI Hate the Internet
R. Scott Bakker
4readratedNeuropath
Scott Nicolay
5readratedDo You Like to Look at Monsters?
David Lee Roth
4readratedCrazy from the Heat
Cass R. Sunstein
3readratedInfotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge
Geoff Nicholson
1readratedThe Lost Art of Walking: The History, Science, and Literature of Pedestrianism
S. Craig Zahler
4.5readratedOrganisms from an Ancient Cosmos
Henry Jenkins
3readratedConvergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
Elle Nash
4readratedNudes
David Mitchell
4readratedGhostwritten
Henri Lefebvre
4readratedThe Production of Space
Ryan Britt
N/AreadThe Spice Must Flow: The Story of Dune, from Cult Novels to Visionary Sci-Fi Movies
Joe Austin
4readratedTaking the Train: How Graffiti Art Became an Urban Crisis in New York City
Andrew Hilbert
4readratedDeath Thing
Gene Youngblood
4readratedExpanded Cinema
Scott Wilson
4readratedMelancology: Black Metal Theory and Ecology
Nic Pizzolatto
3readratedGalveston
Roy Christopher
5readratedPost-Self: Journeys Beyond the Human Body
Theodor Holm Nelson
5readratedLiterary Machines
Janet H. Murray
4readratedHamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace
Donald Antrim
4readratedThe Verificationist
Rick Moody
4readratedOn Celestial Music: And Other Adventures in Listening
David Toop
4readratedOcean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds
Dylan Trigg
4readratedThe Thing: A Phenomenology of Horror
Cormac McCarthy
4readratedBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
Ian McEwan
4readratedThe Cement Garden
Richard Matheson
2readratedWhat Dreams May Come
Saul Williams
4readratedThe Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop
N. Katherine Hayles
4readratedMy Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts
Graham Allen
3readratedبینامتنیت
David Weinberger
3readratedSmall Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory Of The Web
Paul Tremblay
5readratedA Head Full of Ghosts
Daniel H. Pink
3readratedA Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
Dan Gillmor
2readratedMediactive
John Scalzi
4readratedRedshirts
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Alissa Nutting
5readratedTampa [Preview Edition]
David Markson
4readratedWittgenstein's Mistress
Chris Anderson
1readratedFree: The Future of a Radical Price
Wade Davis
N/AreadThe Serpent and the Rainbow
Cormac McCarthy
4readratedOuter Dark
John Scalzi
3readratedRedshirts: Chapters 1-4
Paul Levinson
4readratedNowe nowe media
Roy Christopher
5readratedThe Medium Picture
Graham Lock
4readratedBlutopia: Visions of the Future and Revisions of the Past in the Work of Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton
Eugene McNamara
3readratedThe Interior Landscape: The Literary Criticism Of Marshall McLuhan, 1943-1962
Janet Reitman
4readratedInside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion
Ishmael Reed
4readratedMumbo Jumbo
Rick Rubin
N/AreadThe Creative Act: A Way of Being
Shea Serrano
3readratedThe Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed
Philip E. High
4readratedTwin Planets
James Howard Kunstler
4readratedThe Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
Ian Curtis
4readratedSo This is Permanence: Joy Division Lyrics and Notebooks
Keller Easterling
4readratedMedium Design
Bruce Sterling
4readratedMirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology
Craig Dworkin
4readratedNo Medium
Rosi Braidotti
4readratedNomadic Subjects
Quentin Tarantino
4readratedCinema Speculation
Robin Le Poidevin
3readratedTravels in Four Dimensions: The Enigmas of Space and Time
Mike McGonigal
3readratedMy Bloody Valentine's Loveless
H.G. Wells
3readratedThe Time Machine
McKenzie Wark
4readratedTelesthesia: Communication, Culture and Class
William Golding
4readratedLord of the Flies
Joel Norris
3readratedHenry Lee Lucas: The Shocking True Story of America's Most Notorious Serial Killer
Ted Mooney
5readratedEasy Travel to Other Planets
Blake Crouch
4readratedRecursion
Lauren Beukes
5readratedThe Shining Girls
Mary Douglas
3readratedNatural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology
Mark Dery
4readratedThe Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink
Peter Turchi
4readratedMaps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer
Tim Ingold
4readratedLines: A Brief History
Tim Maughan
5readratedInfinite Detail
Rob Thomas
3readratedNeptune Noir: Unauthorized Investigations into Veronica Mars
Steven Johnson
2readratedMind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life
Julia Kristeva
4readratedDesire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art
N. Katherine Hayles
4readratedChaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science
Hampton Fancher
4readratedThe Wall Will Tell You: The Forensics of Screenwriting
Parmy Olson
4readratedWe Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency
Kristen Gallerneaux
5readratedHigh Static, Dead Lines: Sonic Spectres & the Object Hereafter
Ytasha L. Womack
5readratedEartha 2198
Mike Kleine
4readratedKanley Stubrick
Hillel Schwartz
3readratedThe Culture of the Copy: Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimiles
Donald Theall
3readratedThe Virtual Marshall McLuhan
Robert Guffey
N/AreadOperation Mindfuck: QAnon and the Cult of Donald Trump
Richard Florida
3readratedThe Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity
Neal Stephenson
3readratedSnow Crash
Ray Bradbury
3readratedYestermorrow: Obvious Answers to Impossible Futures
Frank Herbert
4readratedDirect Descent
Alan McGee
4readratedCreation Stories: Riots, Raves and Running A Label
Annalee Newitz
4readratedAutonomous
Roy Christopher
5readratedDead Precedents: How Hip-Hop Defines the Future
Daniel C. Dennett
3readratedBrainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds
Will Self
4readratedGreat Apes
Tibor Fischer
4readratedI Like Being Killed: Stories
Cormac McCarthy
4readratedThe Road
Cormac McCarthy
4readratedNo Country for Old Men
Mike Corrao
4readratedGut Text
Megan Abbott
5readratedThe Fever
Terry Eagleton
3readratedLiterary Theory: An Introduction
Bruce Sterling
4readratedThe Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier
Harper Lee
N/AreadTo Kill a Mockingbird
Hugh Raffles
4readratedInsectopedia
Brian Jay Jones
4readratedGeorge Lucas: A Life
Scott Nicolay
4readratedNoctuidae
John Brockman
3readratedEinstein, Gertrude Stein, Wittgenstein & Frankenstein: reinventando o universo
Kazuo Ishiguro
4readratedKlara and the Sun
Rosi Braidotti
4readratedTranspositions: On Nomadic Ethics
Roy Christopher
5readratedFender the Fall
Mark Dery
4readratedEscape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century
Josh Waitzkin
3readratedThe Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence
Franco "Bifo" Berardi
5readratedHeroes: Mass Murder and Suicide
Isabel Marks
5readratedFancy Cycling, 1901: An Edwardian Guide
Hampton Fancher
4readratedThe Shape of the Final Dog
McKenzie Wark
4readratedMolecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene
Walter J. Ong
4readratedTechnologizace slova
Joshua Chaplinsky
4readratedThe Paradox Twins
Don DeLillo
4readratedThe Body Artist
Alice E. Marwick
5readratedStatus Update: Celebrity, Publicity, and Branding in the Social Media Age
Lauren Beukes
4readratedSlipping: Stories, Essays, & Other Writing
Marshall McLuhan
3readratedCulture Is Our Business
Maryanne Wolf
3readratedProust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
Lance Strate
3readratedOn the Binding Biases of Time: And Other Essays on General Semantics and Media Ecology
Clay Shirky
1readratedHere Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
S.E. Hinton
5readratedRumble Fish
Megan Abbott
4readratedThe Fever
George Orwell
N/AreadNineteen Eighty-Four
Iceberg Slim
4readratedPimp: The Story of My Life
Matthew McConaughey
4readratedGreenlights
Ed Naha
4readratedThe Making Of Dune
Jussi Parikka
4readratedWhat Is Media Archaeology?
Douglas R. Hofstadter
3readratedThe Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul
Thomas Pynchon
5readratedBleeding Edge
Eduardo Navas
4readratedRemix Theory: The Aesthetics of Sampling
Mark Fisher
4readratedGhosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures
Andy Weir
3readratedThe Martian
Tibor Fischer
4readratedThe Thought Gang
Bruce Sterling
4readratedHeavy Weather
Tricia Rose
3readratedThe Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--and Why It Matters
Miles Orvell
3readratedThe Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture, 1880-1940
Alan Liu
4readratedThe Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information
Chuck Palahniuk
4readratedFight Club
Dean Wareham
3readratedBlack Postcards: A Rock & Roll Romance
J.G. Ballard
4readratedA User's Guide to the Millennium: Essays and Reviews
Amos Tutuola
4readratedMy Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Emma Cline
4readratedThe Girls
Harlan Ellison
5readratedDeathbird Stories
Bob Mould
4readratedSee A Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody
Pamela Lu
5readratedAmbient Parking Lot
Daniel Suarez
4readratedKill Decision
Kenneth Burke
3readratedA Grammar of Motives
Martin Heidegger
4readratedBeing and Time
Laura Oldfield Ford
4readratedSavage Messiah
Bret Easton Ellis
4readratedAmerican Psycho
Anna Wiener
4readratedUncanny Valley: A Memoir
Ira Levin
4readratedThe Stepford Wives
Peter Hook
4readratedUnknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division
Michel de Certeau
4readratedThe Practice of Everyday Life
John Brockman
3readratedDigerati: Encounters with the Cyber Elite
Rachel Kushner
4readratedThe Flamethrowers
Nicholas Negroponte
3readratedBeing Digital
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
4readratedThe Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism
James Gleick
4readratedTime Travel: A History
Cormac McCarthy
3readratedThe Orchard Keeper
Alexander G. Weheliye
4readratedPhonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity
Gunnar Hansen
4readratedChain Saw Confidential: How We Made the World's Most Notorious Horror Movie
Lev Manovich
4readratedAI Aesthetics
Rebecca Solnit
5readratedWanderlust: A History of Walking
Scott Heim
4readratedThe First Time I Heard Cocteau Twins
Greg Tate
4readratedEverything But the Burden: What White People Are Taking from Black Culture
Roy Christopher
5readratedFollow for Now, Vol. 2
Andrew Feenberg
4readratedQuestioning Technology
Malcolm Gladwell
3readratedOutliers: The Story of Success
Lauren Beukes
4readratedBroken Monsters
Steven Shaviro
4readratedDiscognition
Wolfgang Flür
2readratedKraftwerk: I Was a Robot
J.G. Ballard
5readratedExtreme Metaphors
Daniel Pinchbeck
2readrated2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl
B.R. Yeager
5readratedNegative Space
Vanessa Veselka
4readratedZazen
James Franco
4readratedPalo Alto
James Gleick
5readratedChaos: Making a New Science
Albert Mudrian
3readratedPrecious Metal: Decibel Presents the Stories Behind 25 Extreme Metal Masterpieces
Greg Tate
4readratedFlyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America
Jack Chuter
4readratedStorm Static Sleep: A Pathway Through Post-Rock
Ray Bradbury
4readratedThe Martian Chronicles
Tom Folsom
5readratedHopper: A Journey into the American Dream
Jay Asher
3readratedThirteen Reasons Why
Kevin Kelly
2readratedNew Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World
Shawn Setaro
1readratedComplex Presents Dummy Boy: Tekashi 6ix9ine and The Nine Trey Gangsta Bloods
Mark Fisher
5readratedThe Weird and the Eerie
Paul Levinson
4readratedMcLuhan in an Age of Social Media
Mark Katz
4readratedGroove Music: The Art and Culture of the Hip-Hop DJ
Dick Hebdige
4readratedSubculture: The Meaning of Style
Gary Genosko
3readratedBaudrillard and Signs: Signification Ablaze
Kazuo Ishiguro
4readratedNever Let Me Go
J.G. Ballard
4readratedHigh-Rise
Humberto R. Maturana
4readratedFrom Being to Doing: The Origins of the Biology of Cognition
Editor: Andy Jenkins
5readratedI Check The Mail Only When Certain It Has Arrived
Neil Strauss
4readratedEmergency: This Book Will Save Your Life
Lauren Beukes
4readratedAfterland
Mark Jacobson
4readratedPale Horse Rider: William Cooper, the Rise of Conspiracy, and the Fall of Trust in America
Jay Mohr
4readratedGasping for Airtime: Two Years in the Trenches of Saturday Night Live
Elizabeth Hand
5readratedCurious Toys
Charles Yu
5readratedreviewedInterior Chinatown
Steven Shaviro
4readratedDoom Patrols: A Theoretical Fiction about Postmodernism
Adam Bradley
4readratedBook of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop
Lev Manovich
4readratedThe Language of New Media
Marcus J. Moore
2readratedThe Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America
Jomny Sun
5readratedEveryone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too
Sherry Turkle
1readratedAlone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Paul M. Sammon
4readratedFuture Noir: The Making of Blade Runner
Clay Shirky
1readratedCognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
Nicholas Carr
3readratedThe Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
W. Brian Arthur
1readratedThe Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves
Lauren Groff
4readratedFates and Furies
N. Katherine Hayles
4readratedHow We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics
S. Craig Zahler
5readratedA Congregation of Jackals
Raoul Vaneigem
4readratedThe Revolution of Everyday Life
Jonah Lehrer
1readratedHow We Decide
Marshall McLuhan
4readratedUnderstanding Media: The Extensions of Man
Roy Christopher
5readratedEscape Philosophy: Journeys Beyond the Human Body
Jacques Attali
3readratedNoise: The Political Economy of Music
Charles Yu
5readratedSorry Please Thank You
Omar El Akkad
4readratedAmerican War
Jace Clayton
4readratedUproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture
Thurston Moore
3readratedNo Wave: Post-Punk. Underground. New York. 1976-1980.
Pat Cadigan
4readratedSynners
Mark C. Taylor
4readratedThe Picture in Question: Mark Tansey and the Ends of Representation
Norman M. Klein
4readratedThe Vatican to Vegas: A History of Special Effects
Bret Easton Ellis
5readratedGlamorama
Patricia Lockwood
5readratedNo One Is Talking About This
Jane Jacobs
4readratedThe Death and Life of Great American Cities
Powell-Olorunto
3readratedThe HipHop Driven Life
Robert J. Sampson
4readratedGreat American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect
Paddy Chayefsky
4readratedAltered States
Stuart Braithwaite
4readratedSpaceships Over Glasgow
J.G. Ballard
4readratedThe Atrocity Exhibition
Dan LeRoy
4readratedThe Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique
Noah Hawley
2readratedBefore the Fall
Kembrew McLeod
4readratedCreative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling
Stanisław Lem
4readratedSolaris
Ray Bradbury
4readratedThe Illustrated Man
Roy Christopher
5readratedFollow for Now
Louis Chude-Sokei
5readratedThe Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics
Jay-Z
4readratedDecoded
Glen Duncan
4readratedI, Lucifer
Lauren Beukes
4readratedMoxyland
Imani Perry
4readratedProphets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop
Donald A. Norman
3readratedThe Design of Everyday Things
Penguin Classics
5readratedThe Happy Reader - Issue 12
Paolo Bacigalupi
4readratedThe Windup Girl
McKenzie Wark
4readratedA Hacker Manifesto
Sam Sweet
5readratedHadley Lee Lightcap
Ben H. Bagdikian
3readratedThe Media Monopoly
Audrey Niffenegger
3readratedThe Time Traveler's Wife
Amelia Gray
5readratedGutshot
Carrie Fisher
3readratedThe Princess Diarist
Brandon LaBelle
4readratedAcoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life
Norbert Wiener
3readratedCybernetics: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
Mark Dery
4readratedAll the Young Dudes: Why Glam Rock Matters
George Saunders
5readratedLincoln in the Bardo
Barry Brummett
4readratedA Rhetoric of Style
James Gleick
3readratedWhat Just Happened: A Chronicle from the Information Frontier
Megan Abbott
4readratedThe End of Everything
Jaron Lanier
1readratedYou Are Not a Gadget
Jane Alison
N/AreadMeander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative
Peter Stallybrass
4readratedThe Politics and Poetics of Transgression
Paul Hegarty
4readratedNoise/Music: A History
Jonathan Sterne
4readratedMP3: The Meaning of a Format
James Ogilvy
4readratedLiving Without a Goal
Steve Aylett
5readratedSlaughtermatic
Guy Debord
3readratedThe Society of the Spectacle
Douglas R. Hofstadter
4readratedI Am a Strange Loop
Manuel DeLanda
3readratedWar in the Age of Intelligent Machines
Douglas Rushkoff
3readratedClub Zero-G
Molly Gloss
5readratedThe Dazzle of Day
Ray Bradbury
4readratedSomething Wicked This Way Comes
Kodwo Eshun
5readratedMore Brilliant Than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction
Filippo Ulivieri
N/AreadCracking the Kube: Solving the mysteries of Stanley Kubrick through archival research
Colson Whitehead
4readratedThe Nickel Boys
R. Murray Schafer
3readratedThe Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World
Andrew Feenberg
3readratedHeidegger and Marcuse: The Catastrophe and Redemption of History
Mary Orr
3readratedIntertextuality: Debates and Contexts
Douglas Rushkoff
3readratedCyberia: Life in the Trenches of Cyberspace
Roy Christopher
5readratedDifferent Waves, Different Depths
Nicholas Schaffner
3readratedSaucerful of Secrets: The Pink Floyd Odyssey
Douglas Rushkoff
4readratedProgram or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age
Raphaël Zarka
4readratedA Day With No Waves - a Chronicle of Skateboarding 1779-2009
James D. Watson
3readratedAvoid Boring People: And Other Lessons from a Life in Science
Bret Easton Ellis
4readratedThe Shards
Nathan Rabin
3readratedYou Don't Know Me but You Don't Like Me: Phish, Insane Clown Posse, and My Misadventures with Two of Music's Most Maligned Tribes
Adam Rapp
5readratedDecelerate Blue
Ross Farrar
5readratedSociety Verse
Jay McInerney
4readratedBright Lights, Big City
Harold A. Innis
4readratedThe Bias of Communication
Terry Eagleton
4readratedAfter Theory
Steven Levy
4readratedHackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
Alissa Nutting
5readratedTampa
Suzanne Buffam
4readratedA Pillow Book
Svetlana Boym
5readratedThe Future of Nostalgia
Daniel H. Pink
3readratedFree Agent Nation: The Future of Working for Yourself
Neal Stephenson
2readratedSome Remarks: Essays and Other Writing
Avery F. Gordon
4readratedGhostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination
Gary Genosko
3readratedUndisciplined Theory
Bret Easton Ellis
3readratedThe Rules of Attraction
William Gibson
4readratedDistrust That Particular Flavor
Selwyn Seyfu Hinds
4readratedGunshots in My Cook-Up: Bits and Bites from a Hip-Hop Caribbean Life
William S. Burroughs
N/AreadNaked Lunch
Cormac McCarthy
4readratedChild of God
Howard Rheingold
4readratedSmart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
Elly A. Konijn
3readratedMediated Interpersonal Communication
Mark Fisher
N/AreadCapitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
Gary F. Marcus
3readratedKluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind
Stewart Brand
3readratedThe Media Lab: Inventing the Future at M.I.T.
Paul Levinson
4readratedDigital McLuhan: A Guide to the Information Millennium
Vladimir Nabokov
N/AreadLolita
Donald Antrim
5readratedElect Mr. Robinson for a Better World
Bret Easton Ellis
4readratedLess Than Zero
Andy Merrifield
5readratedThe Wisdom of Donkeys: Finding Tranquility in a Chaotic World
Cal Newport
3readratedDigital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
David Toop
3readratedSinister Resonance: The Mediumship of the Listener
Terry Eagleton
4readratedThe Gatekeeper: A Memoir
Brian Coleman
5readratedCheck the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies
S. Craig Zahler
5readratedWraiths of the Broken Land
Douglas Rushkoff
4readratedMedia Virus!: Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture
Neal Stephenson
4readratedThe Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
Mike Corrao
4readratedRituals Performed in the Absence of Ganymede
Octavia E. Butler
5readratedKindred
David Grubbs
4readratedRecords Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording
Douglas R. Hofstadter
3readratedMetamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern
John Durham Peters
2readratedThe Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media
Roy Christopher
5readratedDead Precedents: How Hip-Hop Defines the Future
Jennifer Egan
2readratedA Visit from the Goon Squad
Jonathan Lethem
4readratedThe Fortress of Solitude
Amos Tutuola
5readratedSimbi and the Satyr of the Dark Jungle
David Mitchell
4readratedCloud Atlas
David Weinberger
3readratedEverything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder
A.M. Lightner
4readratedThe Day of the Drones
Ian Christe
3readratedSound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal
Brian Massumi
3readratedParables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation
Martin Heidegger
4readratedThe Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays
Charles Yu
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Octavia E. Butler
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3readratedPostmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory
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William Gibson
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Cal Newport
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S.E. Hinton
4readratedThe Outsiders
Scott Heim
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Donna J. Haraway
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Ray Nayler
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Elle Nash
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Griffin Dunne
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