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Favorite authorsKathy Acker, Louis Althusser, M.M. Bakhtin, Georges Bataille, Alison Bechdel, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, Octavia E. Butler, Cesare Casarino, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Thomas M. Disch, Michel Foucault, Glenn Gould, Antonio Gramsci, Ranajit Guha, Rosa Luxemburg, Pierre MacHerey, Karl Marx, China Mieville, Antonio Negri, Kim Stanley Robinson, Joanna Russ, Benedictus de Spinoza, Darko Suvin, Paolo Virno, Lev Semenovich Vygotsky, Peter Weiss, H. G. Wells, Joss Whedon, Walt Whitman, Raymond Williams (Shared favorites)

About meCurrently Reading: Robert Musil--The Man without Qualities, Kark Marx--Capital Vol. 1, Anna Clark--The Struggle for the Breeches, Franco Moretti--Signs Taken For Wonders, Erich Auerbach--Mimesis, Wolfgang Iser--The Range of Interpretation, Immanuel Wallerstein--After Liberalism, Tzvetan Todorov--Theories of the Symbol, Flann O'Brien--The Third Policeman, Theodor Adorno--Aesthetic Theory

Finished Reading: Angela Carter--Nights at the Circus, Henri Lefebvre--Critique of Everyday Life, James Joyce--Dubliners, Ishmael Reed--Mumbo Jumbo, Thomas Pynchon--Gravity's Rainbow, Dick Hebdige, Subculture, Nella Larsen--Passing, Bill Fletcher and Fernando Gapasin--Solidarity Divided, M.P. Shiel--The Purple Cloud, Ernesto Laclau and Chantel Mouffe--Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, Naomi Klein--The Shock Doctrine, M.M. Bakhtin--The Dialogic Imagination, Georg Lukacs--History and Class Consciousness, Michel de Certeau--The Practice of Everyday Life,Claude McKay--Home to Harlem, Karl Marx--1844 Manuscripts, Pierre Macherey--A Theory of Literary Production, Gustav Meyrink--The Golem, Susan Willis--A Primer for Daily Life, Franz Kafka--The Trial, Franz Kafka--The Castle, Oscar Wilde--Picture of Dorian Gray, Rian Malan--My Traitor's Heart, Hans Robert Jauss--Towards a Theory of Reception, Graham Allen--Intertextuality, Frederic Jameson--Late Marxism, Immanuel Wallerstein--Alternatives, Dahr Jamail--Beyond the Green Zone

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Currently readingSeeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (The Institution for Social and by James C. Scott