Fredric Jameson, “Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism,” Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Duke University Press, 19929, pp. 1-55.
Denise Scott Brown, “On Pop Art, Permissiveness and Planning (1969)” Having Words (Architectural Association, 2009)
Sigmund Freud, “Recommendations to Physicians practicing Psycho-Analysis (1912)” in The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, trans. and ed. James Strachey, vol. XII (London: The Hogarth Press, 1958), pp. 111-120
Judith Butler, “Limits of Judgment” and “Who are You?” Giving an Account of Oneself, pp. 30-40 and 44-49.
M. Guy Thompson, “The Rule of Neutrality,” Psychoanalysis & Contemporary Thought, vol. 19 (1996): 57-84.
Aron Vinegar, “Ed Ruscha, Heidegger, and Deadpan Photography” in Photography After Conceptual Art, eds. Diarmuid Costello and Margaret Iversen (Wiley, 2011).
Interviews with and short pieces by Ed Ruscha
Lauren Berlant, on the “Impasse and Gesture” in Cruel Optimism (Duke University Press, 2010), pp. 198-200.
Giorgio Agamben, “The Face,” Means without End: Notes on Politics (Minnesota Press, 2010), pp. 91-100.
Roland Barthes, excerpts from The Neutral: Lecture Course at the College de France (1977-78) (Columbia University Press, 2005).
Francois Julien, passages from Blandness: Proceeding from Chinese Thought and Aesthetics (Zone Books, 2007).
Karl Marx, on commodity fetishism and general equivalence, Capital: Volume one
Eva Illouz, excerpt from Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism (Cambridge: Polity, 2007).
Simon Mussell, “Pervaded by a Chill: The Dialectic of Coldness in Adorno’s Social Theory,” Thesis 11, vol. 117, no. 1 (2013): 55-67.
Aron Vinegar, “Introduction: Gray on Gray” (unpublished manuscript)
Heidegger, excerpts from The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude (Indiana University Press, 1995).
Lars Svendsen, “Andy Warhol; Renouncing Personal Meaning,” A Philosophy of Boredom (Reaktion Books, 2005), pp. 100-106
Boris Groys, passages from “The Logic of Equal Aesthetic Rights,” Art Power (MIT Press, 2008), pp. 13-22.
Jacques Ranciere, passages from “The Paradoxes of Political Art,” Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics (Continuum 2010), pp. 134-152.
Jacques Ranciere, passages from The Emancipated Spectator (Verso, 2011).
Jacques Ranciere, “Divided Beauty (Dresden, 1764)” and “The Cruel Radiance of What Is: Hale County, 1936-New York 1941,” Aisthesis: Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Art (Verso, 2013), pp. 1-20 and pp. 245-262.
Pierre Bourdieu, excerpts from "The Historical Genesis of a Pure Aesthetic," The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literature (Polity Press, 1993), pp. 254-266.
Christine Boyer, “The Indifference City,” https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/urban-village/169800/the-indifferent-city/
Ian Bogost,” Seeing Things” http://bogost.com/writing/seeing_things_1/
Ian Bogost, “Stephen Shore, “Alien Phenomenology, or, What It’s Like to Be a Thing (University of Minnesota Press, 2012), pp 35-50.