Bibliography
BIBLIOGRAPHY
A working bibliography of texts, films, recordings and online sources referenced or implicated in the Ontomena project as currently developed. Not exhaustive — every node carries further references in its body text.
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PHILOSOPHY
Adorno, Theodor W. — Negative Dialectics (Negative Dialektik). 1966. Trans. E.B. Ashton, Continuum 1973.
Aristotle — On the Soul (De Anima). Metaphysics. Various editions.
Bachelard, Gaston — L'Eau et les rêves (Water and Dreams). 1942. Trans. Edith R. Farrell, Dallas Institute 1983.
— La Poétique de l'espace (The Poetics of Space). 1958.
— La Poétique de la rêverie (The Poetics of Reverie). 1960.
Bateson, Gregory — Steps to an Ecology of Mind. Chandler, 1972.
— Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity. Dutton, 1979.
Deleuze, Gilles — Différence et répétition (Difference and Repetition). PUF, 1968.
— Le Pli: Leibniz et le baroque (The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque). Minuit, 1988.
— (with Guattari, Félix) see existing Deleuze & Guattari entry.
Haraway, Donna — Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke UP, 2016.
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich — Phänomenologie des Geistes (Phenomenology of Spirit). 1807.
— Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Geschichte (Lectures on the Philosophy of World History). 1837 (posthumous, ed. Eduard Gans).
Barad, Karen — Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Duke UP, 2007.
Bennett, Jane — "The Force of Things: Steps toward an Ecology of Matter." Millennium: Journal of International Studies 32(3), 2004. https://pages.mtu.edu/~jdslack/readings/CSReadings/Bennett_Jane_The_Force_of_Things.pdf
— Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Duke UP, 2010.
Bergson, Henri — Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience (Time and Free Will). 1889.
— L'Évolution créatrice (Creative Evolution). 1907.
Berkeley, George — A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. 1710.
Bloor, David — Knowledge and Social Imagery. 1976.
Bourdieu, Pierre — La Distinction (Distinction). 1979.
— Le Sens pratique (The Logic of Practice). 1980.
Camus, Albert — L'Homme révolté (The Rebel). 1951.
Deleuze, Gilles & Guattari, Félix — Mille Plateaux (A Thousand Plateaus). 1980.
Feyerabend, Paul — Against Method. 1975.
Foucault, Michel — Les Mots et les choses (The Order of Things). 1966.
Hofstadter, Douglas — Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. Basic Books, 1979.
Heidegger, Martin — Sein und Zeit (Being and Time). 1927.
— "On the Essence of Truth" ("Vom Wesen der Wahrheit"). 1949.
Jung, Carl Gustav — The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious. Collected Works Vol. 9. Princeton UP, 1959.
Kuhn, Thomas S. — The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. University of Chicago Press, 1962.
Latour, Bruno — Nous n'avons jamais été modernes (We Have Never Been Modern). 1991.
— Reassembling the Social. Oxford UP, 2005.
Levinas, Emmanuel — Totalité et Infini (Totality and Infinity). 1961. Trans. Alphonso Lingis, Duquesne University Press, 1969.
— Autrement qu'être (Otherwise Than Being). 1974.
Mathews, Freya — The Ecological Self. Routledge, 1991.
— For Love of Matter: A Contemporary Panpsychism. SUNY Press, 2003.
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice — Phénoménologie de la perception (Phenomenology of Perception). 1945.
— Le Visible et l'invisible (The Visible and the Invisible). 1964.
Naess, Arne — "The Shallow and the Deep, Long-Range Ecology Movement." Inquiry 16, 1973.
Plato — Republic. Meno. Phaedo. Various editions.
Sartre, Jean-Paul — L'existentialisme est un humanisme (Existentialism is a Humanism). 1946.
Spinoza, Baruch — Ethics. 1677.
Thales of Miletus — fragments preserved in Aristotle (Metaphysics A) and Diogenes Laërtius (Lives of Eminent Philosophers).
Whitehead, Alfred North — Process and Reality. 1929.
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POLITICS / RESISTANCE / ECONOMICS
Carney, Mark — Address to the World Economic Forum, Davos, 20 January 2026. (Cited Václav Havel's "The Power of the Powerless" explicitly. "We placed the sign in the window… This bargain no longer works.")
Duchamp, Marcel — Readymade works including Bicycle Wheel (1913), Fountain (1917). See also Schwarz, Arturo — The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp. Delano Greenidge, 1997.
Debord, Guy — La Société du Spectacle (Society of the Spectacle). 1967.
Ferns, Barry — Barry's Economics. YouTube channel, 2025–. Episode on Homophily and Rory Stewart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm_L9VCBJ_E
Fink, Larry — Opening remarks to the World Economic Forum, Davos, 20 January 2026. ("Will anyone outside this room care?")
Havel, Václav — Moc bezmocných (The Power of the Powerless). 1978.
Hertel-Fernandez, Alexander — State Capture: How Conservative Activists, Big Businesses, and Wealthy Donors Reshaped the American States — and the Nation. Oxford UP, 2019.
Mamdani, Zohran — Mayor of New York City (elected November 2025; took office January 2026).
Mandelstam, Nadezhda — Vospominaniya (Hope Against Hope). 1970.
McDonough, William & Braungart, Michael — Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. North Point Press, 2002.
Navalny, Alexei — Patriot: A Memoir. Knopf, 2024.
Ostrom, Elinor — Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. Cambridge UP, 1990.
Piketty, Thomas — Le Capital au XXIe siècle (Capital in the Twenty-First Century). 2013.
Raworth, Kate — Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist. Random House, 2017.
Saez, Emmanuel & Zucman, Gabriel — The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay. Norton, 2019.
Sharp, Gene — The Politics of Nonviolent Action (three volumes). Porter Sargent, 1973.
— From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation. 1993. Albert Einstein Institution.
Stevenson, Gary — The Trading Game: A Confession. Penguin, 2024.
Zucman, Gabriel — The Hidden Wealth of Nations. 2015.
— "The Billionaire Tax — A Modest Proposal for the 21st Century." UNU-WIDER Annual Lecture 28, Helsinki, 4 September 2024. https://www.wider.unu.edu/event/billionaire-tax-modest-proposal-21st-century
— G20 report: https://gabriel-zucman.eu/files/report-g20.pdf
World Inequality Database: https://wid.world/
RealTimeInequality.org: https://realtimeinequality.org/
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ECOLOGY / VITALISM / MATERIALS
Bennett, Jane — see Philosophy.
Johnson, A Frances — "What Rubbish: Ecologies of Vibrant Matter in Contemporary Poetry." Axon Journal 8.1, 2018. https://axonjournal.com.au/issues/8-1/what-rubbish/
Alemanno, Alberto — "How the plastic bottle cap became a parable for the value of EU regulation." Guardian, 27 May 2026. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/27/how-the-plastic-bottle-cap-became-a-parable-for-the-value-of-eu-regulation
Mathews, Freya — see Philosophy.
Hofman, Justin — "Sewage surfer" (photograph: seahorse with cotton swab). 2017. Wildlife Photographer of the Year shortlist.
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AESTHETICS / FILM / ART
Bergman, Ingmar — Laterna Magica (The Magic Lantern). Memoir, 1987.
Breton, André — Manifeste du surréalisme. 1924.
Buñuel, Luis & Dalí, Salvador — Un Chien Andalou (film). 1929.
Herzog, Werner — "Minnesota Declaration: Truth and Fact in Documentary Cinema." Walker Art Center, 1999.
Kuhn, Annette — Family Secrets: Acts of Memory and Imagination. Verso, 1995.
Panahi, Jafar — This Is Not a Film. 2011. Taxi. 2015. Three Faces. 2018. No Bears. 2022.
Tarkovsky, Andrei — Sculpting in Time. Trans. Kitty Hunter-Blair. University of Texas Press, 1986.
Von Trier, Lars — Antichrist (film). 2009.
Arrow, Ruaridh — How to Start a Revolution (documentary film, on Gene Sharp). 2011.
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WALKING / PLACE / PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY
Campbell, Neil — The Rhizomatic West: Representing the American West in a Transnational, Global, Media Age. University of Nebraska Press, 2008.
Chatwin, Bruce — The Songlines. Jonathan Cape, 1987.
Ingold, Tim — Lines: A Brief History. Routledge, 2007.
Jarry, Alfred — Gestes et opinions du docteur Faustroll, pataphysicien. 1911 (posthumous).
Solnit, Rebecca — Wanderlust: A History of Walking. Viking, 2000.
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SIMON BRADLEY — own works referenced
Bradley, Simon — "Top of the World." Blog post, 7 April 2009. https://simonbradley.blogspot.com/2009/04/top-of-world.html
— Mardship Bow (novel in progress). Built around the ritual walk from Armley (Leeds) to Beacon Hill (Halifax), performed at the Winter Solstice, 23+ iterations since c.2000.
— Magnet Opus (27-hour durational geomagnetic sonification, supported by Arts Council England DYCP grant). Eskdalemuir Observatory data; First Order Ambisonics; REAPER + Python pipeline.
— Archaeology of the Voice (practice-led PhD).
— DisplacementActivities (Jekyll/GitHub Pages site). https://displacementactivities.org
— "69 Cards" (oral history HTML project).
— scb_keep_composer (Python/HTML toolkit for creative text composition).
— scb_media_scan / scb_media_select / scb_media_section (media archive pipeline).
— Ontomenator (the present concept-mapping tool).
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
To the long arc of conversation, walking, listening, building and arguing that produced these nodes. To the magnetic field for keeping the world held together long enough to think about it. To the bottle top, for being there.
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This bibliography is a working document. Additions and corrections welcome.