1. A MARVELLOUS (AND VITAL!)
THEMED LIST OF RESOURCES
CULTURE AND CRITICAL THOUGHT

2. Ideology
Key Text: Eagleton, T. (1994) What is Ideology? In: T. Eagleton ed. Ideology, London: Longman. Pp.1-31
Suggested Reading:
Althusser, L. (1998) Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses. In: N. Mirzoeff ed. The Visual Culture Reader,
London: Routledge. Pp.139-141
Barker, C. (2003), Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice, London: Sage
Eagleton, T. ed. (1994) Ideology, London: Longman
Heywood, A. (2003) Political Ideologies, An Introduction, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
Larrain, J. (1979) The Concept of Ideology, London: Hutchinson and Co
National Identity
Key Text: Banham, M. and Hillier, B. (1976), A Tonic to the Nation: The Festival of Britain 1951, Thames and
Hudson: London
The Other
Key text: Said, E. (1978) Orientalism. Harmondsworth: Penguin. (An extract from this text can be accessed on
blackboard).
Almond, I. (2007) The new Orientalists: postmodern representations of Islam from Foucault to Baudrillard
London: Tauris
Hackforth-Jones, J. and Roberts, M. (eds.) (2005) Edges of empire: orientalism and visual culture Oxford:
Blackwell
Turner, B. (1994) Orientalism, postmodernism and globalism London: Routledge
Windschuttle, K. (1999) ‘Edward Said’s “Orientalism revisited”’ in The New Criterion January (available online
from URL:http://newcriterion.com:81/archive/17/jan99/said.htm) (a partial rebuttal of Said’s thesis from a
conservative art historian)
Subcultures
Suggested reading:
Gelder, K. (2007) Subcultures: Cultural Histories and Social Practice. London: Routledge.
Harris, A. (2008) Next wave cultures : feminism, subcultures, activism, New York, Routledge.
Hebdige, D. (1979) Subculture: The Meaning of Style, London: Methuen
Muggleton, D. (ed) (2003) The Post-Subcultures Reader, London, Berg.
Tagg, P. & Clarida, B. (2003) Ten Little Tunes, 2003, New York: The Mass Media Music Scholars’ Press, Inc
Photography
Suggested Reading:
Barthes, R. (1981) Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography, New York, Noonday
Sontag, S. (1973) On Photography, New York, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux
Wells, L. ed. (2003) The Photography Reader, London : Routledge
Wells, L. ed. (2009) Photography : a critical introduction, London : Routledge

3. Key Text: Visual Culture & Theory Handbook
Suggested Reading:
Berger, J. (1977). Ways of seeing. London: Pelican.
Howells, R. (2003) Visual culture: an introduction. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Mirzoeff, N. ed. (1998) The visual culture reader. London: Routledge.
Starker, M. & Cartwright, L. (2001) Practices of looking: an introduction to visual culture. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
Walker, J. & Chaplin, S. eds. (1997) Visual culture: an introduction. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
The Industrial Revolution
Handout: Benjamin, W. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction can be found at
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm & Greenhalgh,P.(1988) ‘The
prefabricated and the mass-produced’, in Ephemeral Vistas, Manchester: Manchester:University Press
Suggested Reading:
Benjamin, W. (trans. 1997) Charles Baudelaire: A lyric poet in the era of high capitalism New York: Verso
Benjamin, W. (2003) [1927-1939] The Arcades Project Cambridge, USA: Harvard University Press
Berman, M. (1983) All That is Solid Melts into Air: the Experience of Modernity, London: Verso
Bracegirdle, (1973), The archaeology of the Industrial Revolution, London : Heinemann Educational
Driver & Gilbert eds. (1999) Imperial Cities Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Klingender, F. D, (1968), Art and the Industrial Revolution, Chatham : Evelyn, Adams & Mackay
Modernity and the Modern
. (http://www.idst.vt.edu/modernworld/d/Baudelaire.html)
Key Text: Extract from: Baudelaire, C. (1972) The Painter of Modern Life: Selected Writings on Art and Literature,
Cambridge: Viking. Pp. 395-422 Available: http://www.idst.vt.edu/modernworld/d/Baudelaire.html
Suggested Reading:
Berman, M. (1983) All That is Solid Melts into Air: the Experience of Modernity, London: Verso
Frisby, D (1986) Fragments of Modernity: Theories of Modernity in the Work of Simmel, Kracauer, and Benjamin,
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press
Harvet, D. (2003) Paris: Capital of Modernity, London: Routledge
Jenks, C. (1995), Visual Culture, London: Routledge
McGuigan, J. (1999), Modernity and Postmodern Culture, Buckingham: Open University Press
Tester, K. ed. (1994) The Flaneur, London: Routledge
Modernism in Art
Key Text: Is Modernism Dangerous? Deyan Sudjic, The Observer April 9, 2006 (available from URL:
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/modernism/story/0,,1750953,00.html)
Postmodernism
Suggested Reading:
Baudrillard, Jean (1983). Simulations. Foreign Agents Series. Semiotext(e)
Harvey, David (1990). The Condition of Postmodernity: An enquiry into the origins of cultural change. Cambridge,
MA: Blackwell.
Lyotard, Jean Francois (c1984). The Postmodern Condition : a report on knowledge. Manchester : Manchester
University Press.
Plant, Sadie (1992) The Most Radical Gesture. London: Routledge.
Smart, Barry (c1993). Postmodernity. London : Routledge.

4. Key text: Extracts from Venturi, R. Scott brown, D. Izenour, and S. (1992, 1977) (1998) Learning from Las
Vegas: the Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form, The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts and
London, England
Suggested Reading:
Apignanesi, R et al (2001) Introducing Postmodernism. London: Totem
McRobbie, A. (1994), Post Modernism and Popular Culture, Routledge, Oxon
Venturi, R. Scott brown, D. Izenour, and S. (1992, 1977) (1998) Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten
Symbolism of Architectural Form, The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England
Closer to Home: Ideology and the Family Image
Arcana, J (1981) Our Mothers’ Daughters, London: The Women’s Press Limited
Forna, A. (1992.) Mother of All Myths – How Society Moulds and Constrains Mothers, Harper Collins Publishers,
Hirsh, M. (1997) Family Photography: Context, Meaning and Effect, New York: Oxford University Press
Spence, J. and Hollands, P. eds (1991) Family Snaps: The Meanings of Family Photograph, London: Virago
Surveillance: ‘The Panopticon’
Suggested Reading:
Deleuze, G. (1992). Postscript on societies of control. Available from: http://libcom.org/library/postscript-on-
the-societies-of-control-gilles-deleuze
Foucault, M. (1979) Discipline and Punish (translated by Alan Sheridan), Penguin: Harmondsworth.
Lyon, D. (ed) (2003) Surveillance as Social Sorting. Routledge: London.
Orwell, George (1990). Nineteen Eighty-Four. Penguin: London.
Pease-Watkin, C. (2003) Bentham’s Panopticon and Dumont’s Panoptique (available from URL:
www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project/journal/cpwpan.htm)
Porter, H :http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/henryporter
Stross, C. (2002) The Panopticon Singularity (available from URL: www.antipope.org/charlie/rant/panopticon-
essay.html -
The Situationist International
Key reading:
Plant, Sadie (1992). The most radical gesture: the Situationist International in a postmodern age. London:
Routledge.
Additional Reading:
Debord, Guy (1994). The society of the spectacle. New York : Zone Books, 1994.
Gelder, Ken and Thornton, Sarah eds (1997). The Subcultures reader. London : Routledge.
Wark, McKenzie (2008). 50 years of recuperation of the Situationist International. New York: Temple Hoyne
Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture: Princeton Architectural Press.
Duncombe, Stephen ed (2002). Cultural resistance reader. London: Verso.

5. Commodification
Key Text: Frank, T. (1997). Why Johnny Can’t Rebel, Available from:
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/f/frank-dissent.html
Suggested Reading:
Foucault, M. (1998) Of Other Spaces. In: N. Mirzoeff ed. The visual cultural reader. London: Routledge. Pp.229-
236
Frank, T. and Weiland, M. eds. (1997), Commodify your Dissent : Salvos from The Baffler, London: W.W. Norton
Gottdiener, M. ed. (2000) New Forms of Consumption: Consumers, Culture, and Commodification, Oxford:
Rowman & Littlefield
Lefebvre, H. (1991), The Production of Space, Oxford: Blackwell
Urry, J. (1995) Consuming Places, London: Routledge
The Exhibitionary Complex
Key Text: Giebelhausen, M. The Architecture is the Museum in Marstine, J. ed. (2007). New Museum
Theory and Practice, An Introduction, Oxford: Blackwell (pp 41-61)
Suggested Reading:
Barker, E. (1999) Contemporary Cultures of Display. London: OU
Bennet, T. (1995) The Birth of the Museum: Theory, History, Politics. NY: Routledge
Carbonell, B. Ed. (2004) Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts. Oxford: Blackwell
Forty, Adrian (19860 Objects of Desire London: Thames and Hudson
Hooper-Greenhill, E. (2000) Museums and the Interpretation of Visual Culture. London: Routledge.
Karp, I. & Lavine, S. Eds. (1991) Exhibiting cultures : the poetics and politics of museum display. Washington &
London: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Pearce, S. (1991) Interpreting objects and collections. London: Routledge
Artists and Exhibition
Carrier, D. (2006) Museum Skepticism : a history of the display of art in public galleries (London: Duke University)
Greenhalgh, Paul (1990) Ephemeral Vistas: The Expositions Universelles, Great Exhibition and World's Fairs, 1851-
1939, Manchester: Manchester University Press
Krysa, J. (Ed) (2006) Curating Immateriality : the work of the curator in the age of network systems (London:
Compass Academic)
Weintraub, L. (2003) How Modern Artists Think and Work. London: Thames and Hudson
Critiques of the culture industry
Key reading:
Adorno, Theodor W.(1991). The culture industry : selected essays on mass culture. London :
Routledge.
Benjamin, Walter. What is Epic Theatre?. In: Illuminations: Essays and Reflections. New York:
Schocken Books.
Eco, Umberto (1989). The open work. Harvard University Press
Additional reading:
Wolff, Janet (1993) The social production of art. London: Palgrave.

6. The society of the spectacle
Key reading:
Debord, Guy (1994). The Society of the Spectacle. New York : Zone Books, 1994.
Additional reading:
Plant, Sadie (1992). The most radical gesture: the Situationist
International in a postmodern age. London: Routledge.
Gardiner, Michael (2000). Critiques of everyday life. London :
Routledge. Chapter on the Situationist International
Wark, McKenzie (2008). 50 years of recuperation of the Situationist
International. New York: Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of
American Architecture: Princeton Architectural Press.
Duncombe, Stephen ed (2002). Cultural resistance reader. London:
Verso.
Recommended viewing: Situationist International, 3 part TV
programme, available on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SvdWk8zRrI
Relational Aesthetics
Key reading:
Harvey, David (2009). A brief history of neoliberalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Bourriaud, Nicholas (2002) Relational Aesthetics. Dijon: Presses du réel.
Additional reading:
Stallabrass, Julian (2004). Art incorporated: the story of contemporary art. Oxford : Oxford University Press.
Hertz, Noreena (2002). The silent takeover : global capitalism and the death of democracy. London: Arrow
Books.
Hardt, Michael and Negri, Antonio (2000). Empire. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press
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