My theory list was heavily influenced by a critical studies in new media course I took with Tim Lenoir my first year and TA'd for my third; my basic notion is to look at poetry & poetics as media-specific productions.
Minor Field (Theory): New Media
Writing/Speech/Gesture
Bolter, Jay | Writing Space: Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print, 2nd ed. (2001)
Clarke, Bruce & Linda D. Henderson | From Energy to Information: Representation in Science & Technology, Art, & Literature (2002)
Derrida, Jacques | Writing and Difference (1967) | Of Grammatology (1976) | Margins of Philosophy (1985)
Drucker, Johanna | “Digital Ontologies: The Ideality of Form in/and Code Storage - or ‘Can Graphesis Challenge Mathesis?’” (2001)
Havelock, Eric | Preface to Plato (1963)
Hayles, N. Katherine | Writing Machines (2002)
Kittler, Friedrich | Discourse Networks 1800/1900 (1992) | Literature, Media, Information Systems (1997) | Gramophone, Film, Typewriter (1999)
Lakoff, George & Mark Johnson | Metaphors We Live By, 2nd Edition (2003)
Landow, George | Hypertext 3.0: Critical Theory & New Media in an Age of Globalization (2006)
Leroi-Gourhan, Andrei | Gesture & Speech (1993)
Manovich, Lev | The Language of New Media (2001)
Peirce, CS. | “Some Consequences of Four Incapacities”
Pfeiffer, K. Ludwig | The Protoliterary: Steps Toward an Anthropology of Culture (2002)
Poster, Mark. | “Derrida & Electronic Writing”
Rotman, Brian | Becoming Beside Ourselves (2008)
Stiegler, Bernard | Technics & Time (1998)
“The Human” : Ontology & Phenomenology in/of New Media
Baudrillard, Jean | Simulacra & Simulation (1981) | Ecstacy of Communication (1988)
Bergson, Henri | Matter & Memory (1896) | Creative Evolution (1907)
Bohrer, Karl H. | Suddenness: On the Moment of Aesthetic Appearance (1994)
Bolter, Jon & Richard Grusin | Remediation: Understanding New Media (2000)
Grosz, E.A. | Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism (1994)
Hansen, Mark | New Philosophy for New Media (2006) | Bodies in Code: Interfaces with Digital Media (2006)
Hayles, N. Katherine | How We Became Post-Human: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics (1999) | My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects & Literary Texts (2005)
Heidegger, Martin | The Question Concerning Technology, & Other Essays (1977)
Merleau-Ponty, M. | Phenomenology of Perception (1945)
Pred, Ralph | Onflow: Dynamics of Consciousness & Experience (2005)
Rotman, Brian | Signifying Nothing: the Semiotics of Zero (1987)
Turing, Alan | “Computing Machinery & Intelligence” (1950)
Whitehead, A. N. | Process & Reality (1929)
Zielinski, Siegfried | Deep Time of the Media: Toward an Archaeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means (2006)
Zylinska, Joanna | The Cyborg Experiments: The Extensions of the Body in the Media Age (2002)
New Media & History / & Collectivity
Arrighi, Giovanni | The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power & the Origins of Our Times (1994)
Benjamin, Walter | Illuminations | The Arcades Project
Deleuze & Guattari | “Introduction: Rhizome” (1980)
Hardt, Michael & Antonio Negri | Multitude: War & Democracy in the Age of Empire (2004)
Jameson, Fredric | “Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism” | “The End of Temporality”
Mali, Joseph | Mythhistory: the Making of a Modern Historiography (2003)
McLuhan, Marshall | Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1994)
