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12 books with a reading profile close to Electronic Literature by N. Katherine Hayles. Deep and open-ended; a demanding read.

1

Postdramatic Theatre

by Hans-Thies Lehmann

Also deep and open-ended · academic, theoretical

Hans-Thies Lehmann identifies a fundamental shift in performance art where the written text no longer serves as the primary governing authority.
2

Modernism's Other Work

by Lisa Siraganian

Also deep and open-ended · academic, theoretical

Lisa Siraganian argues that the formalist detachment of high modernism serves as a laboratory for theorizing political agency and individual liberty.
3

The road to Middle-Earth

by Tom Shippey

Also deep · academic, theoretical

Tom Shippey argues that J.R.R.
4

A Room of One’s Own

by Virginia Woolf

Also deep · academic, theoretical

Virginia Woolf bases this extended essay on the material conditions required for women to produce literature.
5

Crossing the Water

by Sylvia Plath

Also deep and open-ended · academic, literary

Published eight years after her death, this collection gathers transitional poems composed between the publication of The Colossus and the final creative burst of Ariel.
6

The Sellout

by Paul Beatty

Also deep and open-ended · literary, experimental

In the fictional agrarian enclave of Dickens, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Los Angeles, an African American narrator known as Bonbon attempts to restore his community after it is literally removed from the map.
7

Cloud Atlas

by David Mitchell

Also deep and open-ended · literary, experimental

Cloud Atlas follows six interlocking narratives that span from the mid-nineteenth-century Pacific Ocean to a post-apocalyptic Hawaiian future.
8

The Society of the Spectacle

by Guy Debord

Also deep and open-ended · academic, theoretical

Guy Debord analyzes the shift from a world of direct living to a landscape of mere representation.
9

Philosophy in a Time of Terror

by Jürgen Habermas, Jacques Derrida

Also deep and open-ended · academic, theoretical

This volume documents individual dialogues between Giovanna Borradori and philosophers Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida conducted shortly after the September 11 attacks.
10

Living in the End Times

by Slavoj Žižek

Also deep and open-ended · academic, theoretical

Slavoj Žižek uses Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s five stages of grief—denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance—to categorize the global response to what he identifies as the terminal crisis of contemporary capital…
11

The Nature of Cultural Heritage, and the Culture of Natural Heritage

by David Lowenthal, Kenneth Olwig

Also deep · academic, theoretical

This book examines the persistent conceptual divide between natural and cultural heritage, arguing that these categories are defined by a viewer’s intellectual and geographical location.
12

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

by Thomas S. Kuhn

Also deep · academic, theoretical

Thomas Kuhn challenges the timeline of linear scientific progress, arguing instead that science operates through distinct cycles.

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