an archive of reads + films etc i came across, liked, and would want to revisit again. maybe you'll like some of them too ( ദ്ദി ˙ᗜ˙ )

Contemporary art, curation, poststructuralism, critical theory

Books, essays, journal, articles, etc

  • Conceptual Art in a Curatorial Perspective: Between Dematerialization and Documentation by Nathalie Zonnenberg
  • Curating Digital Art: From Presenting and Collecting Digital Art to Networked Co-Curation
  • Différance by Jacques Derrida
  • Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences by Jacques Derrida
  • The Order of Things by Michel Foucault
  • The Seminar of Jacques Lacan by Jacques Lacan
  • Lacanian Ink by Josefina Ayerza
  • Ways of Curating by Hans Ulrich Obrist
  • The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property by Eunsong Kim
  • Thinking Contemporary Curating by Terry Smith

Architectural & Spatial practice + theory

  • Agonistic Assemblies: On the Spatial Politics of Horizontality by Markus Miessen
  • The Archive as a Productive Space of Conflict by Markus Miessen
  • Agonistic Assemblies by Markus Miessen
  • Architecture's Theory by Catherine Ingraham
  • Slow Spatial Reader: Chronicles of Radical Affection

Visual, (typo)graphic, data, and info design

For theory and practice

  • Semiology of Graphics by Jacques Bertin
  • Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production by Johanna Drucker
  • favorite White 白 by Kenya Hara
  • favorite Designing Design by Kenya Hara
  • Data Sketches by Nadieh Bremer & Shirley Wu

Film/Interviews

Exhibitions + Projects

reading lists

more focused, academic collections