Neo-Situationist texts and stuff

[Cain]

Because it was a good idea I had after reading Cram's thread, and I managed to find where I had (mis)placed the external HD.

Book titles and authors

Ernesto Laclau - Emancipation
Various - The Blackwell Companion to Ancient and Modern Satire
Theodor Adorno - The Culture Industry
Steve Jones - Critical thinkers: Antonio Gramsci
A Very Short Introduction - Roland Barthes
David Holmes - Communication Theory: Media, Technology and Society
Chesters and Welsh - Complexity and Social Movements
Various - Key Thinkers: Cultural Theory
Andy Bennett - Culture and everyday life
Mark Drey - Culture Jamming
John F Moffit - Alchemist of the Avant-Garde: The Case Of Marcel Duchamp
Eriksen - The Tyranny of the Moment
Various - Fifty key contemporay sociologists
Hakim Bey - TAZ and Ontological Anarchy
Christ Jenks - Key Ideas: Culture
William Pawlett - Key Sociologists: Jean Baudrillard
Gary Gensoko - McLuhan and Baudrillard: Masters of Implosion
Ian McFayden - Mind Wars
Christine Harold - Ourspace
Michael Perlman - Manufacturing discontent: the trap of individualism in corporate society
Thomas Diefenbach - Management and the dominance of managers
Various - Situationist Texts
Guy Debord - The Society of the Spectacle
Richard J Pech - Inhibiting Imitative Terrorism through Memetic Engineering
Unruh and Wilson - The Art of Memetics
Clifford Bob - The Marketing of Rebellion: Insurgents, Media and International Activism
Thom Braun - The Philosophy of Branding
Davis and Pickering - Unrespectable radicals: Popular Politics in the Age of Reform
Gary Indiana - Utopia's Debris
Raoul Vangiem - The Revolution of Everyday Life
Paul Virilio - Crepuscular Dawn
Slavoj Zizek - For they know not what they do
Slavoj Zizek - Welcome to the Desert of the Real


And now, to make dinner.

[Cain]

Blah blah blah

[Roaring Biscuit!]

you are my new god.  how do you feel about that?

[Cain]

I feel smite-y.

[Roaring Biscuit!]

well...  fuck.

[Iason Ouabache]

Very nice.  I don't think that I had any of these except for Art of Memetics. Thanks, Cain.

[Cramulus]

god damn you cain


you're the voice in my head prodding me to read faster

I want to read all of these, there's just no time!


these are the ones that sound coolest to me:

Clifford Bob - The Marketing of Rebellion: Insurgents, Media and International Activism
Thom Braun - The Philosophy of Branding
Richard J Pech - Inhibiting Imitative Terrorism through Memetic Engineering       -what a great title!

[Cain]

Clifford's one is about actual insurgent groups (I think about half the book is devoted to the Zapatista) but because it ties into the themes of rebellion, marketing, social change etc I thought it a good enough addition.

And the memetic engineering one is an actual paper, like about 5 pages long, so its a very quick read.

[Cain]

Also, if anyone is interested in the one's I think are the most interesting or useful I would say

Adorno's Culture Industry - one of the first looks at mass-produced culture by a very talented sociologist/thinker.
The book on Antonio Gramsci - his conception of the hegemon could be seen as the basis of much Situationist and similar thought.
Raoul Vangiem's book is THE exposition of Situationist philosophy
Gensko's book will get you acquainted with two more media theorists whose names should be well known to anyone interested in this sort of thing.

[Triple Zero]

Also, if anyone is interested in the one's I think are the most interesting or useful I would say

Adorno's Culture Industry - one of the first looks at mass-produced culture by a very talented sociologist/thinker.
The book on Antonio Gramsci - his conception of the hegemon could be seen as the basis of much Situationist and similar thought.
Raoul Vangiem's book is THE exposition of Situationist philosophy
Gensko's book will get you acquainted with two more media theorists whose names should be well known to anyone interested in this sort of thing.

Thanks! Cause as my book collection is growing to several gigabytes (and nearly everything is from what's been posted here), it just becomes so much I cannot choose anymore, so I greatly appreciate the pointers and short descriptions.

[Corvidia]

So much win. Thanks!

[LMNO]

I almost feel that I need to shatter my spine, so I have an excuse to do nothing but read for the next six months.

[Honey]

I feel smite-y.

Thanks for the list!  I haven't read any of these.