This is an ongoing list for the sake of research purposes. It is by no means extensive or complete. Please recommend new texts by posting a comment.
- Longinus. “On the Sublime.” (1st Century AD)
- Burke, Edmud. “A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful” (1757).
- Kant, Emmanuel. “Analytic of the Sublime.” The Critique of Judgment (1790).
- Sir Uvedale Price. “Essay on the Picturesque.” (1794)
- Mosco, Vincent. The Digital Sublime. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2004.
- Plato. Timaeus.
- Kristeva, Julia. “The Semiotic Chora Ordering the Drives.” The Kristeva Reader. Ed. Toril Moi. New York: Columbia UP, 1986.
- Derrida, Jacques and Peter Eisenman. Chora L Works. New York: The Monacelli Press, 1997.
- Ulmer, Gregory. Heuretics: The Logic of Invention. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1994.
- Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish. New York: Vintage, 1995.
- Foucault, Michel. “The Eye of Power: A Conversation with Jean-Pierre Barou and Michelle Parot.”
- Bentham, Jeremy. “The Penitentiary Panopticon or Inspection House.”
- Farocki, Harun. “Controlling Observation.”
- Virilio, Paul. “The Visual Crash.”
- Zizek, Slavoj, “Big Brother, or, the Triumph of the Gaze over the Eye.”
- Weibel, Peter. “Pleasure and the Panoptic Principle.”
- Burgin, Victor. “Jenni’s Room: Exhibitionism and Solitude.”
- Joseph, Brandon W. “Nothing Special: Andy Warhol and the Rise of Surveillance.”
- Frohne, Ursula. “Screen Tests: Media Narcissism, Theatricality, and the Internationalized Observer.”
- Debord, Guy. The Society of the Spectacle.
- Debord, Guy and Gil Wolman. “A User’s Guide to Detournement.”
- Debord, Guy. “Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography.”
- Plant, Sadie. “Now, the S.I.” The Most Radical Gesture.
- Harvey, David. The Condition of Postmodernity. London: Blackwell Publishers, 1990.
- Koolhaus, Rem. Delirious New York. New York: Monacelli Press, 1994.
- Coyne, Richard. Technoromanticism. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999.
- Benedikt, Michael, ed. Cyberspace: First Steps. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991.
- Stegner, Nicole. “Mind Is a Leaking Rainbow.” In Benedikt.
- Stone, Allucquere Rosanne. “Will the Real Body Please Stand Up?: Boundary Stories about Virtual Cultures.” In Benedikt.
- DeCerteau, Michel. The Practice of Everyday Life.
- LeFebvre, Henri. The Production of Space.
- Tuan, Yi-Fu. Space and Place.
- Auge, Marc. non-places: introduction to an anthropology of supermodernity.
- Bachelard, Gaston. The Poetics of Space.
- White, William H. The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces.
- Tafuri, Manfredo. Architecture as Utopia.
Panofsky, Erwin. Perspective as Symbolic Form. Zone Books, 2005.