the contemporary Condition (that's an overarching and transhistorical capital "c"): college graduate denial. to this end, monoculture presents its newest project, tradition and the individual talents. on our bookshelf
Adorno, Theodor W. Aesthetic Theory. Eds. Gretel Adorno and Rolf Tiedemann. Trans. Robert Hullot-Kentor. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997. and all those dope head freaks say they've known us for weeks...
tradition and the individual talents is r.mutt and S+M. their debut album is called coniferous. it is available in many major retail outlets the world over.
songs you shall soon hear include "don't be saussure," "critic-theorists against the neo-con hegemony," "zeit-villains," "the new generation of deleuzo-guattarians," "they took all the signifieds and put 'em in a signified museum," "i believe in a thing called lévi-strauss," "gödel, escher, bloch: a marxist critique," and the band's magna cum laude opus "a grand history of narrative." theory.core is the new grime/dubstep is the new dance-punk is the new electro-clash is the new new new wave is the new garage.
---. The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture. Ed. J. M. Bernstein. London: Routledge, 1991.
---. Minima Moralia. Trans. Edmund Jephcott. New York: Verso, 1978.
---. Prisms. Trans. Samuel and Shierry Weber. London: Neville Spearman, 1967.
Adorno, Theodor W. and Max Horkheimer. Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments. Ed. Gunzelin Schmid Noerr. Trans. Edmund Jephcott. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002.
Agamben, Giorgio. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Trans. Daniel Heller-Roazen. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995.
Althusser, Louis. Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays. Trans. Ben Brewster. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1972.
Appadurai, Arjun. Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.
Alberro, Alexander. Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003.
Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. New York: Verso, 1991.
Aristotle. On Poetry and Music. Trans. S. H. Butcher. New York: Liberal Arts Press, 1948.
---. Poetics. Trans. James Hutton. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1982.
Bakhtin, M. M. and P. N. Medvedev. The Formal Method in Literary Scholarship: A Critical Introduction to Sociological Poetics. Trans. Albert J. Wehrle. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978.
Banham, Reyner. Theory and Design in the First Machine Age. New York: Praeger, 1960.
Barthes, Roland. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography. Trans. Richard Howard. New York: Hill and Wang, 1981.
---. The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies. Trans. Richard Howard. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
---. Image/Music/Text. Trans. Stephen Heath. New York: Noonday, 1977.
---. Mythologies. Trans. Annette Lavers. New York: Hill and Wang, 1972.
---. The Semiotic Challenge. Trans. Richard Howard. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
---. S/Z. Trans. Richard Miller. New York: Hill and Wang, 1974.
---. Writing Degree Zero. Trans. Annette Lavers and Colin Smith. New York: Hill and Wang, 1968.
Battock, Gregory (ed.). Minimalism: A Critical Anthology. New York: Button, 1968.
Baudrillard, Jean. For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign. Trans. Charles Levin. St. Louis: Telos Press, 1981.
---. Simulacra and Simulation. Trans. Sheila Faria Glaser. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994.
de Beauvoir, Simone. The Second Sex. Trans. H. M. Parshley. New York: Bantam, 1952.
Benjamin, Andrew (ed.). The Lyotard Reader. Cambridge: Basil Blackwell, 1989.
Benjamin, Walter. The Arcades Project. Trans. Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin. Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1999.
---. Illuminations. Ed. Hannah Arendt. Trans. Harry Zohn. New York: Schocken, 1968.
---. Reflections. Ed. Peter Demetz. Trans. Edmund Jephcott. New York: Schocken, 1978.
Bergson, Henri. An Introduction to Metaphysics. Trans. T. E. Hulme. New York: Liberal Arts Press, 1949.
Bernstein, Richard J. (ed.). Habermas and Modernity. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1985.
Bhabha, Homi K. The Location of Culture. New York: Routledge, 1994.
--- (ed.). Nation and Narration. New York: Routledge, 1990.
Blanchot, Maurice. The Writing of Disaster. Trans. Ann Smock. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988.
Bourdieu, Pierre. The Field of Cultural Production: Essays on Art and Literature. Ed. Randal Johnson. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.
---. On Television. Trans. Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson. New York: The New Press, 1998.
Bryson, Norman, Michael Ann Holly, and Keith Moxey (eds.). Visual Culture: Images and Interpretations. Hanover: Wesleyan University Press, 1994.
Buchloh, Benjamin H. D. Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry: Essays on European and American Art from 1955-1975. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000.
Buchloh, Benjamin H. D., Serge Guilbaut, and David Solkin (eds.). Modernism and Modernity: The Vancouver Conference Papers. Halifax: The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1983.
Buren, Daniel. Five Texts. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1973.
Bürger, Peter. Theory of the Avant-Garde. Trans. Michael Shaw. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984.
Burke, Edmund. A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. New York: Garland Publishing, 1971.
Butler, Judith. Antigone’s Claim. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.
---. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York: Routledge, 1999.
de Certeau, Michel. The Practice of Everyday Life. Trans. Steven F. Rendall. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.
Crimp, Douglas. On the Museum's Ruins. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993.
Debord, Guy. The Society of the Spectacle. Trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith. New York: Zone, 1994.
Deleuze, Gilles. Cinema 1: The Movement-Image. Trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986.
Deleuze, Gilles and Félix Guattari. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Trans. Robert Hurley, Mark Seem, and Helen R. Lane. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
---. Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature. Trans. Dana Polan. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986.
---. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Trans. Brian Massumi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987.
Derrida, Jacques. The Truth in Painting. Trans. Geoff Bennington and Ian McLeod. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
---. The Work of Mourning. Trans. Pascale-Anne Brault. Ed. Michael Naas. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2003.
---. Writing and Difference. Trans. Alan Bass. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.
Deutsche, Rosalyn. Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996.
Dodds, E. R. The Ancient Concept of Progress and Other Essays on Greek Literature and Belief. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973.
de Duve, Thierry. Kant after Duchamp. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996.
Eliot, T. S. The Frontiers of Criticism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1956.
---. "Tradition and the Individual Talent." The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism. London: Methuen, 1920. Republished in http://www.bartleby.com.
Foster, Hal (ed). The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture. New York: The New Press, 1998.
---. Design and Crime (and Other Diatribes). New York: Verso, 2002.
--- (ed.). Discussions in Contemporary Culture, No. 1. Seattle: Bay Press, 1987.
---. Prosthetic Gods. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004.
---. Recodings: Art, Spectacle, Cultural Politics. Seattle: Bay Press, 1985.
---. The Return of the Real: The Avant-Garde at the End of the Century. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996.
Foster, Hal, Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois, and Benjamin H. D. Buchloh. Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism. London: Thames & Hudson, 2005.
Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality. Trans. Robert Hurley. New York: Vintage, 1990.
---. Language, Counter-Memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews. Ed. Daniel F. Bouchard. Trans. Donald F. Bouchard and Sherry Simon. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977.
Frank, Thomas. The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Fried, Michael. Art and Objecthood: Essays and Reviews. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Fraser, Andrea. Museum Highlights: The Writings of Andrea Fraser. Ed. Alexander Alberro. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005.
Friedrich, Carl J. (ed.). The Philosophy of Hegel. New York: The Modern Library, 1954.
Frye, Northrop. The Anatomy of Criticism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1957.
Gaggi, Silvio. From Text to Hypertext: Decentering the Subject in Fiction, Film, the Visual Arts, and Electronic Media. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997.
Gay, Peter (ed.). The Freud Reader. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1989.
Gramsci, Antonio. Selections from the Prison Notebooks. Ed. and Trans. Quentin Hoare and Geoffrey Nowell Smith. New York: International, 1971.
Greenberg, Clement. Art and Culture: Critical Essays. Boston: Beacon Press, 1961.
---. The Collected Essays and Criticism, Vol. 1: Perceptions and Judgments, 1939-1944. Ed. John O’Brian. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
---. The Collected Essays and Criticism, Vol. 4: Modernism with a Vengeance, 1957-1969. Ed. John O’Brian. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
---. Homemade Esthetics: Observations on Art and Taste. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Habermas, Jürgen. The New Conservatism: Cultural Criticism and the Historians' Debate. Ed. and Trans. Shierry Weber Nicholsen. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1989.
---. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society. Trans. Thomas Burger. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991.
Hardt, Michael and Kathi Weeks (eds.). The Jameson Reader. New York: Blackwell, 2000.
Hartman, Geoffrey H. The Fateful Question of Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
Haxthausen, Charles W. (ed.). The Two Art Histories: The Museum and the University. Williamstown: Clark Art Institute, 2002.
Haynes, Deborah J. Bakhtin and the Visual Arts. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Hebdige, Dick. Subculture: The Meaning of Style. New York: Routledge, 1987.
Heidegger, Martin. Essays in Metaphysics: Identity and Difference. Trans. Kurt F. Leidecker. New York: Philosophical Library Inc., 1960.
Hess, Thomas B. and John Ashbery (eds.). Avant-Garde Art. New York: Collier, 1968.
Higgins, John (ed.). The Raymond Williams Reader. New York: Blackwell, 2001.
Huyssen, Andreas. After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986.
---. Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memor. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003.
---. Twilight Memories: Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia. New York: Routledge, 1995.
Jakobson, Roman. On Language. Ed. Linda R. Waugh and Monique Monville-Burston. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990.
James, C. L. R. Beyond a Boundary. Durham: Duke University Press, 1993.
Janko, Richard. Aristotle on Comedy: Towards a Reconstruction of Poetics II. London: Duckworth, 2003.
Kant, Immanuel. Critique of Judgment. Trans. Werner S. Pluhar. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co., 1987.
---. Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime. Trans. John T. Goldthwait. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1960.
---. Perpetual Peace and Other Essays. Trans. Ted Humphrey. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1983.
Kozloff, Max. Renderings: Critical Essays on a Century of Modern Art. New York: Clarion, 1969.
Krauss, Rosalind. The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1985.
Lacan, Jacques. Écrits: A Selection. Trans. Bruce Fink. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2002.
Lefebvre, Henri. Everyday Life and the Modern World. Trans. Sacha Rabinovitch. New York: Harper and Row, 1971.
Leung, Godfre. The Swans at Coole Re-revisited: W. B. Yeats and Figured Poetic Identity. Portland: This Ain't No Press Club Press, 2003.
Levinas, Emmanuel. Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority. Trans. Alphonso Lingis. Boston: Kluwer Academic, 1991.
Lukács, Georg. History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics. Trans. Rodney Livingstone. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1971.
Lyotard, Jean-François. Lessons on the Analytic Sublime. Trans. Elizabeth Rottenberg. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994.
---. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. Trans. Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984.
Malraux, André. The Voices of Silence. Trans. Stuart Gilbert. New York: Doubleday, 1953.
de Man, Paul. Aesthetic Ideology. Ed. Andrzej Warminski. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.
---. Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979.
---. Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971.
---. The Resistance to Theory. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986.
---. The Rhetoric of Romanticism. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984.
Marcuse, Herbert. One Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Society. Boston: Beacon Press, 1964.
Marx, Karl. Capital Vol. 1. Trans. Ben Fowkes. New York: Random House, 1971.
---. Grundrisse. Trans. David McLellan. London: MacMillan, 1971.
Matejka, Ladislav and Krystyna Pomorska (eds.). Readings in Russian Poetics: Formalist and Structuralist Views. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1971.
McLellan, David (ed.). Karl Marx: Early Texts. Trans. David McLellan. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1972.
McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. New York: Signet, 1964.
Meyer, James. Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.
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Mitscherlich, Alexander and Margarete. The Inability to Mourn: Principles of Collective Behavior. Trans. Beverley R. Placzek. New York: Grove Press, 1975.
Nancy, Jean-Luc. The Inoperative Community. Ed. Peter Connor. Trans. Peter Connor, Lisa Garbus, Michael Holland, and Simona Sawhney. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991.
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Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Birth of Tragedy and the Genealogy of Morals. Trans. Francis Golffing. New York: Doubleday, 1956.
Oliver, Kelly (ed.). French Feminism Reader. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.
Ormiston, Gayle L. and Alan D. Schrift (eds.). Transforming the Hermeneutic Context: From Nietzsche to Nancy. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990.
Owens, Craig. Beyond Recognition: Representation, Power, and Culture. Eds. Scott Bryson, Barbara Kruger, Lynne Tillman, and Jane Weinstock. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
Panofsky, Erwin. Idea: A Concept in Art Theory. Trans. Joseph P. E. Peake. New York: Harper & Row, 1968.
---. Meaning in the Visual Arts. New York: Doubleday Anchor, 1955.
Perloff, Marjorie. Poetic License: Essays on Modernist and Postmodernist Lyric. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1990.
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Preziosi, Donald (ed.). The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Propp, Vladimir. Ed. Anatoly Liberman. Trans. Ariadna Y. Martin and Richard P. Martin. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984.
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Steinberg, Leo. Other Criteria: Confrontations with Twentieth Century Art. New York: Oxford University Press, 1972.
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