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SARA AHMED
 
'Introduction'
Living a Feminist Life
Durham: Duke University Press
2017
pp. 1–18
 

 
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AMERICAN ARTIST
 
'Black Gooey Universe'
Unbag
End – Winter 2018
 

 
article
BENEDICT ANDERSON
 
'Census, Map, Museum'
Imagined Communities
London: Verso
2006
pp. 163–185
 

 
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JULIETA ARANDA, BRIAN KUAN WOOD, AND ANTON VIDOKLE
 
'Introduction'
The Internet Does Not Exist
Berlin: Sternberg Press
2015
pp. 5–9
 

 
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ROLAND BARTHES
 
'Death of the Author'
Image, Music, Text
London: Fontana Press
[1967] 1977
pp. 143–148
 

 
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WALTER BENJAMIN
 
'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction'
Illuminations
New York: Schocken Books
[1935] 1969
pp. 1–26
 

 
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PAUL BENZON
 
'On Publishing: Fugitive Materiality and the Future of the Anthropocene Book'
Publishing as Artistic Practice
Berlin: Sternberg Press
2016
pp. 282–294
 

 
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STUART BERTOLOTTI-BAILEY
 
'Towards a Critical Faculty'
2007
 

 
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ANDREW BLAUVELT
 
'An Opening: Graphic Design's Discursive Spaces'
Visible Language, 28(3)
1994
pp. 205–217
 

 
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ANDREW BLAUVELT, LUNA MAURER, EDO PAULUS, JONATHAN PUCKEY, AND ROEL WOUTERS
 
Conditional Design Workbook
Amsterdam: Valiz
2013
Excerpt pp. ii–xiv
 

 
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BARBARA BOLT
 
'Beneficience and contemporary art: when aesthetic judgment meets ethical judgment'
The Meeting of Aesthetics and Ethics in the Academy: Challenges for Creative Practice Researchers in Higher Education
2021
pp. 153–166
 

 
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BENJAMIN BRATTON
 
'What's Wrong with TED Talks?'
TEDxSanDiego
2013
 

 
YouTube, article
ITALO CALVINO
 
Invisible Cities
Orlando: Harcourt Brace & Company
[1972] 1974
pp. 5–35
 

 
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WENDY HUI KYONG CHUNG
 
'On Patterns and Proxies'
e-flux architecture
2018
 

 
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BEATRIZ COLOMINA AND MARK WIGLEY
 
Are We Human? Notes on an Archaeology of Design
Zurich: Lars Müller Publishers
2019
Excerpt pp. 9–29
 

 
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WIM CROUWEL AND JAN VAN TOORN
 
'The Debate'
The Debate: The Legendary Contest of Two Giants of Graphic Design
New York: The Monacelli Press
[1972] 2015
pp. 21–38
 

 
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CARL DISALVO
 
'Adversarial Design as Inquiry and Practice'
Adversarial Design
Cambridge: MIT Press
2012
pp. 115–125
 

 
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JOHANNA DRUCKER
 
'Designing graphic interpretation'
Graphesis: Visual Forms of Knowledge Production
Cambridge: Harvard University Press
2014
pp. 180–192
 

 
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KATE EICHHORN
 
'Xerography, Publics and Counterpublics'
Adjusted Margin: Xerography, Art, and Activism in the Late Twentieth Century
Cambridge: MIT Press
2016
pp. 81–111
 

 
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HANNAH ELLIS
 
'The Rise of the Memoir-ograph'
Creative Review, 37(5)
2017
pp. 29–31
 

 
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VILEM FLUSSER
 
'Print'
Does Writing Have a Future?
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
2011
pp. 47–54
 

 
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HAL FOSTER
 
'Design and Crime'
Design and Crime (And Other Diatribes)
London: Verso
2010
pp. 13–26
 

 
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MICHEL FOUCAULT
 
'Preface'
The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
London: Routledge
[1966] 1989
pp. xvi–xxvi
 

 
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MATTHIAS FRITSCH
 
The Story of Technoviking: Short Version
Directed by Matthias Fritsch
2015
 

 
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ALEXANDER GALLOWAY AND EUGENE THACKER
 
'Protocol, Control and Network'
Grey Room, 17
2004
pp. 6–29
 

 
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LISA GITELMAN
 
'Paper Knowledge'
Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents
Durham: Duke University Press
2014
pp. 1–20
 

 
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PAOLO GERBAUDO
 
'Introduction'
Tweets and the Streets
London: Pluto Press
2012
pp. 1–17
 

 
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KENNETH GOLDSMITH
 
'Revenge of the Text'
Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age
New York: Columbia University Press
2011
pp. 14–33
 

 
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ADAM GREENFIELD
 
'Smartphone: The Networking of the Self'
Radical Techologies
London: Verso
2017
pp. 9–30
 

 
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JACK HALBERSTAM*
 
'Introduction: Low Theory'
The Queer Art of Failure
Durham and London: Duke University Press
2011
pp. 1–25
 
*Originally published under the name Judith Halberstam
 

 
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DONNA HARAWAY
 
'Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective'
Feminist Studies, 14(3)
1988
pp. 575–599
 

 
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bell hooks
 
Cultural Criticism and Transformation
1997
 

 
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TIM INGOLD
 
Lines: A brief history
London: Routledge
2007
Excerpt pp. 120–151
 

 
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CHARLES JENCKS AND NATHAN SILVER
 
Adhocism: The Case for Improvisation
Cambridge: The MIT Press
[1972] 2013
Excerpt pp. 38–53
 

 
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PATRICK KEILLER
 
Robinson in Space
Directed by Patrick Keiller
London: Facets
1997
 

 
YouTube (excerpt), BFI, CSM Library (DVD)
ROBIN KINROSS
 
'Modernity after modernism'
Modern typography
London: Hyphen Press
[1992] 2004
pp. 158–182
 

 
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FRANCISCO LARANJO
 
'Critical Graphic Design: Critical of What?'
Modes of Criticism
2014
 

 
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BRUNO LATOUR
 
'Visualisation and Cognition: Drawing Things Together'
Knowledge and Society Studies in the Sociology of Culture at Present, Vol. 6
1986
pp. 1–40
 

 
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ALESSANDRO LUDOVICO
 
'Post-Digital Print: A Future Scenario' and 'Print vs. Electrons'
Post-Digital Print: The Mutation of Publishing since 1894
Eindhoven: Onomatopee
2012
pp. 153–161
 

 
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IAN LYNAM
 
'Why we should really be concerned about the visual identity for the Tokyo Olympics'
2015
 

 
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MARSHALL MCLUHAN AND QUENTIN FIORE
 
The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects
Berkeley: Gingko Press
[1967] 2001
 

 
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METAHAVEN
 
'Sealand'
Uncorporate Identity
Zurich: Lars Müller Publishers
2010
pp. 6–49
 

 
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J. ABBOTT MILLER
 
'Pictures for rent'
Eye Magazine, 14
1994
pp. 68–77
 

 
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W. J. T. MITCHELL
 
'What Do Pictures Want?'
What Do Pictures Want: The Lives and Loves of Images
Chicago: University of Chicago Press
2005
pp. 28–56
 

 
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ANGELA NAGLE
 
'From Tumblr to the campus wars: creating scarcity in an online economy of virtue'
Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right
Hants: Zero Books
2017
pp. 68–85
 

 
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GEORGES PEREC
 
'Species of Spaces'
Species of Spaces and Other Pieces
London: Penguin
[1974] 1999
Excerpt pp. 46–56
 

 
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RAYMOND QUENEAU
 
Exercises in Style
London: John Calder
[1947] 1998
pp. 9–16, 19–26
 

 
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DAVID REINFURT
 
'I-N-T-E-R-F-A-C-E'
A *New* Program for Graphic Design
Los Angeles: Inventory Press
2019
pp. 170–253
 

 
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MICHAEL ROCK
 
'Designer as Author'
Multiple Signatures: On Designers, Authors, Readers and Users
New York: Rizzoli
[1996] [2009] 2013
pp. 45–56, 91–95
 

 
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MICHAEL ROCK
 
'Fuck Content'
Multiple Signatures: On Designers, Authors, Readers and Users
New York: Rizzoli
[1996] [2009] 2013
pp. 45–56, 91–95
 

 
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FATIMAH TOBING RONY
 
'King Kong and the Monster in Ethnographic Cinema'
The Horror Reader
Gelder, K. (ed.)
London: Routledge
2001
pp. 242–250
 

 
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DANIEL RUBINSTEIN AND KATRINA SLUIS
 
'The Digital Image in Photographic Culture: Algorithmic Photography and the Crisis of Representation'
The Photographic Image in Digital Culture
Lister, M. (ed.)
London: Routledge
2013
pp. 22–40
 

 
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SUSAN SONTAG
 
'On Style'
Against Interpretation and Other Essays
London: Penguin
[1965] 2009
pp. 15–36
 

 
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HITO STEYERL
 
'In Defense of the Poor Image'
The Wretched of the Screen
Berlin: Sternberg Press
2012
pp. 31–45
 

 
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JACQUES TATI
 
Playtime
Directed by Jacques Tati
1967
 

 
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DENNIS TENEN
 
'Literature down to a pixel'
Plain Text: The Poetics of Computation
Stanford: Stanford University Press
2017
pp. 165-195
 

 
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JEREMY TILL
 
'Contingency'
Architecture Depends
Cambridge: MIT Press
2009
pp. 45-61
 

 
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AGNÈS VARDA
 
The Gleaners and I
Directed by Agnès Varda
Paris: Ciné Tamaris
2000
 

 
YouTube (trailer), Curzon, CSM Library (DVD)
ROBERT VENTURI, DENISE SCOTT BROWN, AND STEVEN IZENOUR
 
'A Significance for A&P Parking Lots or Learning from Las Vegas'
Learning from Las Vegas
Cambridge: MIT Press
1972
pp. 3–19
 

 
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EVA WEINMAYR
 
'One Publishes to Find Comrades'
A Visual Event: An Education in Appearances
Leipzig: Spector Books
2014
pp. 50–59
 

 
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