Peggy Phelan: Unmarked
she is awesome, I mean come on:
"Unmarked attempts to find a theory of value for that which is not "really" there, that which cannot be surveyed within the boundaries of the putative real. By locating a subject which cannot be reproduced within the ideaology of the visible, I am atrempting to revalue a belief in subjectivity and identity which is not visually representable. This is not the same thing as calling for greater visibility of the hitherto unseen."
Peggy Phelan: Mourning Sex
Ernst Van Alphen: Caught By History: Holocaust Effects in Contemporary Art (horrible title, an even worse cover. But an excellent book!)
John Dewey: Art as Experience
Walter Benjamin: Theses on the Philosophy of History (his concept of 'acedia' is pertinent to loss and representation)
Ed. David Eng and David Kazanjian: Loss
I also just received De Certeau's Practice of Everyday Life. His chapter "Making Do" is awesome, expecially when he talks about perspective vs. prospective vision.
The challenge is how to fit it all into one thesis...
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