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Date Created: 2026-02-20
Last Updated: 2026-02-23


The following bibliography is offered as a resource and a record. It is a growing index of the texts that have most directly shaped the ideas, questions, and orientations at the core of my practice. Drawing from ecological theory, media criticism, feminist and posthumanist philosophy, political economy, and the history of art and technology, these works reflect an ongoing commitment to situating creative practice within broader intellectual, cultural, and environmental conversations. This is not a bibliography of influences per se, but rather a map of research over time.

The texts gathered here are not all of equal weight or relevance. Some are foundational works I return to repeatedly that I have built a close relationship with over time. Others are more peripheral, useful for a particular interest or context without being central to my thinking as a whole. A number of entries are included precisely because they present positions I do not hold, or hold only partially. 

Ultimately, this is an effort to mobilize information and knowledge and to put ideas into relation with one another. It is neither exhaustive nor fixed, and entries will continue to be added as my practice develops.

Please note: This section is still taking shape and will grow over time. It is not yet complete.
Bibliography

Albers, Josef. 1963. Interaction of Color. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 80 pp. ISBN 978-0-300-01846-7.

Aranda, Julieta, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle, eds. 2015. The Internet Does Not Exist. Berlin: Sternberg Press. 272 pp. ISBN 978-3-95679-048-1.

Aranda, Julieta, Brian Kuan Wood, and Anton Vidokle, eds. 2017. Supercommunity: Diabolical Togetherness Beyond the Commons. London: Verso. 480 pp. ISBN 978-1-78663-052-7.

Barthes, Roland. 1981. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography. Translated by Richard Howard. New York: Hill and Wang. 119 pp. ISBN 978-0-374-52130-3.

Bennett, Jane. 2010. Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 176 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-4633-4.

Berardi, Franco "Bifo." 2017. Futurability: The Age of Impotence and the Horizon of Possibility. London: Verso. 256 pp. ISBN 978-1-78478-441-6.

Berry, Wendell. 2022. The Need to Be Whole: Patriotism and the History of Prejudice. Berkeley, CA: Shoemaker & Company. 457 pp. ISBN 978-1-59376-739-5.

Boltanski, Luc, and Ève Chiapello. 2005. The New Spirit of Capitalism. London: Verso. 600 pp. ISBN 978-1-84467-443-4.

Bould, Mark. 2021. The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture. London: Verso. 192 pp. ISBN 978-1-83976-069-4.

Braidotti, Rosi. 2013. The Posthuman. Cambridge: Polity Press. 229 pp. ISBN 978-0-7456-4158-4.

Braidotti, Rosi. 2019. Posthuman Knowledge. Cambridge: Polity Press. 200 pp. ISBN 978-1-5095-2943-2.

Bridle, James. 2018. New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future. London: Verso. 320 pp. ISBN 978-1-78663-547-8.

Buck, Holly Jean. 2019. After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration. London: Verso. 288 pp. ISBN 978-1-78663-535-5.

Büscher, Bram, and Robert Fletcher. 2020. The Conservation Revolution: Radical Ideas for Saving Nature Beyond the Anthropocene. London: Verso. 224 pp. ISBN 978-1-78873-936-1.

Carson, Rachel. 1962. Silent Spring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 368 pp. ISBN 978-0-618-24906-0.

Chomsky, Noam, and Robert Pollin. 2020. Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet. London: Verso. 208 pp. ISBN 978-1-78873-985-9.

Crawford, Kate. 2021. Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 336 pp. ISBN 978-0-300-20975-4.

Cronon, William, ed. 1995. Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. 561 pp. ISBN 978-0-393-31511-6.

Daston, Lorraine, and Peter Galison. 2007. Objectivity. New York: Zone Books. 501 pp. ISBN 978-1-890951-78-8.

Davis, Ben. 2022. Art in the After-Culture: Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy. Chicago: Haymarket Books. 304 pp. ISBN 978-1-64259-793-6.

Demos, T. J. 2016. Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology. Berlin: Sternberg Press. 303 pp. ISBN 978-3-95679-255-3.

Demos, T. J. 2017. Against the Anthropocene: Visual Culture and Environment Today. Berlin: Sternberg Press. 112 pp. ISBN 978-3-95679-353-6.

Easterling, Keller. 2014. Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space. London: Verso. 264 pp. ISBN 978-1-78168-553-0.

Easterling, Keller. 2021. Medium Design: Knowing How to Work on the World. London: Verso. 192 pp. ISBN 978-1-83976-044-1.

Easterling, Keller. 2022. Subtraction. New York: Columbia University Press. 144 pp. ISBN 978-0-231-20452-9.

Firestone, Shulamith. 1970. The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution. New York: William Morrow and Company. 274 pp. ISBN 978-0-553-27361-4.

Fisher, Mark. 2009. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? Winchester, UK: Zero Books. 81 pp. ISBN 978-1-84694-317-8.

Fisher, Mark. 2014. Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures. Winchester, UK: Zero Books. 272 pp. ISBN 978-1-78099-226-6.

Fisher, Mark. 2021. Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures. London: Repeater Books. 256 pp. ISBN 978-1-913462-25-7.

Greene, Rachel. 2004. Internet Art. London: Phaidon Press. 224 pp. ISBN 978-0-7148-4143-3.

Griffin, Susan. 1978. Women and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her. New York: Harper & Row. 263 pp. ISBN 978-0-06-250034-7.

Haraway, Donna J. 1991. "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century." In Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature, 149–181. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-90387-5.

Haraway, Donna J. 2016. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 296 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-6224-2.

Harman, Graham. 2011. The Quadruple Object. Winchester, UK: Zero Books. 168 pp. ISBN 978-1-84694-700-8.

Hayles, N. Katherine. 1999. How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 350 pp. ISBN 978-0-226-32146-2.

Hester, Helen. 2018. Xenofeminism. Cambridge: Polity Press. 176 pp. ISBN 978-1-5095-1693-7.

Kimmerer, Robin Wall. 2013. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions. 390 pp. ISBN 978-1-57131-356-0.

Klein, Naomi. 2023. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 368 pp. ISBN 978-0-374-61065-4.

Laboria Cuboniks. 2018. The Xenofeminist Manifesto: A Politics for Alienation. London: Verso. 96 pp. ISBN 978-1-78663-599-7.

McHugh, Gene. 2009–2010. "Post Internet." 122909a.com. http://122909a.com.

Moore, Jason W. 2015. Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital. London: Verso. 336 pp. ISBN 978-1-78168-991-0.

Morton, Timothy. 2007. Ecology Without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 232 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-02448-0.

Morton, Timothy. 2013. Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 229 pp. ISBN 978-0-8166-8923-4.

Morton, Timothy. 2016. Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence. New York: Columbia University Press. 240 pp. ISBN 978-0-231-17752-5.

Morton, Timothy. 2018. Being Ecological. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 224 pp. ISBN 978-0-262-03743-0.

Moten, Fred, and Stefano Harney. 2013. The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study. Wivenhoe, UK: Minor Compositions. 158 pp. ISBN 978-1-57027-255-9.

Myers, Rhea, ed. 2022. Radical Friends: Decentralise Your Art Market and Space. Sheffield, UK: Torque Editions. ISBN 978-1-7397518-0-5.

Powers, Richard. 2018. The Overstory. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. 502 pp. ISBN 978-0-393-35668-3.

Price, Seth. 2002–2008. "Dispersion." Unpublished manuscript. https://www.distributedhistory.com/Dispersion2016.pdf.

Rush, Michael. 2003. Video Art. London: Phaidon Press. 224 pp. ISBN 978-0-7148-4247-8.

Russell, Legacy. 2020. Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto. London: Verso. 176 pp. ISBN 978-1-78663-543-0.

Scranton, Roy. 2015. Learning to Die in the Anthropocene: Reflections on the End of a Civilization. San Francisco: City Lights Books. 136 pp. ISBN 978-0-87286-654-9.

Solnit, Rebecca. 2003. River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West. New York: Viking. 305 pp. ISBN 978-0-14-200394-4.

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Srnicek, Nick, and Alex Williams. 2015. Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work. London: Verso. 240 pp. ISBN 978-1-78478-097-5.

Steyerl, Hito. 2017. Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War. London: Verso. 240 pp. ISBN 978-1-78663-370-2.

Thoreau, Henry David. 1854. Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields. 357 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-09693-4.

Vierkant, Artie. 2010. "The Image Object Post-Internet." Unpublished manuscript. http://jstchillin.org/artie/pdf/The_Image_Object_Post-Internet_us.pdf.

Wallace-Wells, David. 2019. The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming. New York: Tim Duggan Books. 310 pp. ISBN 978-0-525-57670-9.

Wark, McKenzie. 2019. Capital is Dead: Is This Something Worse? London: Verso. 192 pp. ISBN 978-1-78873-861-6.

Wark, McKenzie. 2023. Raving. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 168 pp. ISBN 978-1-4780-2318-5.

Youngblood, Gene. 1970. Expanded Cinema. New York: E. P. Dutton. 432 pp. ISBN 978-0-525-47225-8.