Ontomenator

BIBLIOGRAPHY & SOURCES A working bibliography of texts, films, recordings and online sources referenced or implicated in the Ontomena project. Not exhaustive — every node carries further references in its body text. ──────────────────────────────────────── BOOKS & PAPERS Adorno, Theodor W. Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life (1951; trans. E. F. N. Jephcott, 1974). Adorno, Theodor W. Negative Dialectics (Negative Dialektik, 1966; trans. E. B. Ashton, Continuum, 1973). Adorno, Theodor W. Aesthetic Theory (1970; trans. Robert Hullot-Kentor, 1997). Applebaum, Anne. Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World (2024). Aristotle. On the Soul (De Anima); Metaphysics. Various editions. Ashery, Ariel Flint, Luca Maria Aiello, and Andrea Baronchelli. Emergent Social Conventions and Collective Bias in LLM Populations (Science Advances, 2025). Bachelard, Gaston. Water and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Matter (L'Eau et les rêves, 1942; trans. Edith Farrell, Dallas Institute, 1983). Bachelard, Gaston. The Poetics of Space (La Poétique de l'espace, 1958; trans. Maria Jolas, 1964). Bachelard, Gaston. The Poetics of Reverie (La Poétique de la rêverie, 1960; trans. Daniel Russell, 1969). Barad, Karen. Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning (Duke University Press, 2007). Bateson, Gregory. Steps to an Ecology of Mind (Chandler, 1972). Bateson, Gregory. Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity (Dutton, 1979). Bateson, Nora. "Aphanipoiesis." In Combining (2023); first published 2021. Bennett, Jane. "The Force of Things: Steps toward an Ecology of Matter." Millennium: Journal of International Studies 32:3 (2004). Bennett, Jane. Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (Duke University Press, 2010). Bergson, Henri. Time and Free Will (Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience, 1889; trans. F. L. Pogson, 1910). Bergson, Henri. Matter and Memory (Matière et mémoire, 1896; trans. Paul & Palmer, 1911). Bergson, Henri. Creative Evolution (L'Évolution créatrice, 1907; trans. Arthur Mitchell, 1911). Berkeley, George. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710). Bey, Hakim (Peter Lamborn Wilson). T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism (Autonomedia, 1991). Bloor, David. Knowledge and Social Imagery (1976). Borges, Jorge Luis. "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote" (1939), "The Analytical Language of John Wilkins" (1942), "On Exactitude in Science" (1946). In Collected Fictions (trans. Andrew Hurley, 1998) and Other Inquisitions. Bourdieu, Pierre. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste (La Distinction, 1979; trans. Richard Nice, 1984). Bourdieu, Pierre. The Logic of Practice (Le Sens pratique, 1980; trans. Richard Nice, 1990). Bradley, Simon. Mardship Bow (Lulu, 2011). Bradley, Simon. Archaeology of the Voice: Exploring Oral History, Locative Media, Audio Walks, and Sound Art as Site-Specific Displacement Activities. Doctoral thesis, University of Huddersfield (2016). Breton, André. Manifesto of Surrealism (Manifeste du surréalisme, 1924). Buber, Martin. I and Thou (Ich und Du, 1923; trans. Walter Kaufmann, Scribner's, 1970). Buñuel, Luis. My Last Breath (Mon dernier soupir, 1982; trans. Abigail Israel, 1983). Cage, John. Organ²/ASLSP (As Slow as Possible) (1987; organ version of ASLSP, 1985). Halberstadt performance 2001–2640. Campbell, Neil. The Rhizomatic West: Representing the American West in a Transnational, Global, Media Age (University of Nebraska Press, 2008). Campbell, Neil. Affective Critical Regionality (2016). Camus, Albert. The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt (L'Homme révolté, 1951; trans. Anthony Bower, 1953). Camus, Albert. Lyrical and Critical Essays (trans. Ellen Conroy Kennedy, 1968), including the 1945 interview with Jeanine Delpech. Centola, D., Becker, J., Brackbill, D., & Baronchelli, A. (2018). Experimental evidence for tipping points in social convention, Science, 360(6393), 1116-1119. Chatwin, Bruce. The Songlines (Jonathan Cape, 1987). Debord, Guy. The Society of the Spectacle (La Société du spectacle, 1967; trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith, 1994). Deleuze, Gilles. Difference and Repetition (Différence et répétition, 1968; trans. Paul Patton, 1994). Deleuze, Gilles. The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque (Le Pli, 1988; trans. Tom Conley, 1993). Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1972; trans. Hurley, Seem & Lane, 1977). Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Mille Plateaux, 1980; trans. Brian Massumi, 1987). Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari. What is Philosophy? (1991; trans. Tomlinson & Burchell, 1994). Deleuze, Gilles, and Claire Parnet. Dialogues II (1977; trans. Tomlinson & Habberjam, 2002). Durschmied, Erik. The Hinge Factor: How Chance and Stupidity Have Changed History (1999). Durschmied, Erik. The Hinges of Battle: How Chance and Incompetence Have Changed the Face of History (Hodder & Stoughton, 2002). Duchamp, Marcel. Readymade works including Bicycle Wheel (1913) and Fountain (1917). See Arturo Schwarz, The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp (1997). Feldman, Morton. String Quartet No. 2 (1983; single movement, c. 6 hours). Feyerabend, Paul. Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge (1975). Feyerabend, Paul. Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction versus the Richness of Being (ed. Bert Terpstra, University of Chicago Press, 1999). Foucault, Michel. The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (Les Mots et les choses, 1966; trans. 1970). Fromm, Erich. Escape from Freedom (1941; published in the UK as The Fear of Freedom). Granovetter, Mark. "The Strength of Weak Ties." American Journal of Sociology 78:6 (1973), pp. 1360–1380. Haraway, Donna. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Duke University Press, 2016). Havel, Václav. "The Power of the Powerless" (Moc bezmocných, 1978). In The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central-Eastern Europe (ed. John Keane, 1985). Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. Phenomenology of Spirit (Phänomenologie des Geistes, 1807; trans. A. V. Miller, 1977). Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. Lectures on the Philosophy of World History (Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Geschichte, 1837; trans. H. B. Nisbet, 1975). Heidegger, Martin. Being and Time (Sein und Zeit, 1927; trans. Macquarrie & Robinson, 1962). Heidegger, Martin. Introduction to Metaphysics (1935/1953; trans. Fried & Polt, Yale University Press, 2014). Heidegger, Martin. "On the Essence of Truth" ("Vom Wesen der Wahrheit," 1943/1949). Hertel-Fernandez, Alexander. State Capture: How Conservative Activists, Big Businesses, and Wealthy Donors Reshaped the American States — and the Nation (Oxford University Press, 2019). Hofstadter, Douglas. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Basic Books, 1979). Hofstadter, Douglas. I Am a Strange Loop (2007). Ingold, Tim. Lines: A Brief History (Routledge, 2007). Jamie, Kathleen. Cairn (Sort of Books, 2024) Jarry, Alfred. Exploits and Opinions of Doctor Faustroll, Pataphysician (Gestes et opinions du docteur Faustroll, 1911). Johnson, A. Frances. "What Rubbish: Ecologies of Vibrant Matter in Contemporary Poetry." Axon Journal 8.1 (2018). Jung, Carl Gustav. The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (Collected Works Vol. 9; Princeton University Press, 1959). Kuhn, Annette. Family Secrets: Acts of Memory and Imagination (Verso, 1995). Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (University of Chicago Press, 1962). Latour, Bruno. We Have Never Been Modern (Nous n'avons jamais été modernes, 1991; trans. Catherine Porter, 1993). Latour, Bruno. Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory (Oxford University Press, 2005). Levinas, Emmanuel. Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority (Totalité et infini, 1961; trans. Alphonso Lingis, Duquesne University Press, 1969). Levinas, Emmanuel. Otherwise Than Being, or Beyond Essence (Autrement qu'être, 1974; trans. Alphonso Lingis, 1981). Mandelstam, Nadezhda. Hope Against Hope: A Memoir (Vospominaniya, 1970; trans. Max Hayward). Manning, Erin. Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy (MIT Press, 2009). Manning, Erin. The Minor Gesture (Duke University Press, 2016). Manning, Erin, and Brian Massumi. Thought in the Act: Passages in the Ecology of Experience (University of Minnesota Press, 2014). Massumi, Brian. Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation (Duke University Press, 2002). Mathews, Freya. The Ecological Self (Routledge, 1991). Mathews, Freya. For Love of Matter: A Contemporary Panpsychism (SUNY Press, 2003). Maturana, Humberto, and Francisco Varela. The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding (1987; trans. 1992). McDonough, William, and Michael Braungart. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (North Point Press, 2002). McPherson, Miller, Lynn Smith-Lovin, and James M. Cook. "Birds of a Feather: Homophily in Social Networks." Annual Review of Sociology 27 (2001), pp. 415–444. Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. Phenomenology of Perception (Phénoménologie de la perception, 1945; trans. Colin Smith, 1962). Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. The Visible and the Invisible (Le Visible et l'invisible, 1964; trans. Alphonso Lingis, 1968). Naess, Arne. "The Shallow and the Deep, Long-Range Ecology Movement." Inquiry 16 (1973). Navalny, Alexei. Patriot: A Memoir (Knopf, 2024). Ostrom, Elinor. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Cambridge University Press, 1990). Piketty, Thomas. Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Le Capital au XXIe siècle, 2013; trans. Arthur Goldhammer, 2014). Piketty, Thomas, Emmanuel Saez, and Gabriel Zucman. "Distributional National Accounts: Methods and Estimates for the United States." Quarterly Journal of Economics 133:2 (2018), pp. 553–609. Plato. Republic; Meno (trans. G. M. A. Grube); Phaedo. Various editions. Raworth, Kate. Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (Random House, 2017). Reich, Wilhelm. The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933; trans. Vincent Carfagno, 1970). Saez, Emmanuel, and Gabriel Zucman. The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay (Norton, 2019). Sartre, Jean-Paul. Existentialism is a Humanism (L'existentialisme est un humanisme, 1946; trans. Carol Macomber, 2007). Satie, Erik. Vexations (c. 1893; 840 repetitions, first complete performance organised by John Cage, 1963). Schwenk, Theodor. Sensitive Chaos: The Creation of Flowing Forms in Water and Air (Das sensible Chaos, 1962; trans. Olive Whicher & Johanna Wrigley, 1965). Sharp, Gene. The Politics of Nonviolent Action (three volumes; Porter Sargent, 1973). Sharp, Gene. From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation (Albert Einstein Institution, 1993). Sloterdijk, Peter. Rage and Time: A Psychopolitical Investigation (2006; trans. Mario Wenning, 2010). Smith, Phil. Counter-Tourism: The Handbook (Triarchy Press, 2012). Smith, Phil, et al. (Wrights & Sites). An Exeter Mis-Guide (2003). Solnit, Rebecca. Wanderlust: A History of Walking (Viking, 2000). Spinoza, Baruch. Ethics (Ethica, 1677). Stein, Gertrude. Four in America (written 1930s; published 1947). Stevenson, Gary. The Trading Game: A Confession (Penguin, 2024). Tarkovsky, Andrei. Sculpting in Time (1986; trans. Kitty Hunter-Blair, University of Texas Press, 1986). Thales of Miletus. Fragments preserved in Aristotle (Metaphysics A) and Diogenes Laërtius (Lives of Eminent Philosophers). Theweleit, Klaus. Male Fantasies (Männerphantasien, 1977–78; trans. 1987). Thompson, Evan. Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind (Harvard University Press, 2007). Thrift, Nigel. Non-Representational Theory: Space, Politics, Affect (Routledge, 2008). Varela, Francisco, Evan Thompson, and Eleanor Rosch. The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience (MIT Press, 1991). Whitehead, Alfred North. Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (Gifford Lectures 1927–28; 1929. Corrected edition, ed. Griffin & Sherburne, Free Press, 1978). Whitehead, Alfred North. Adventures of Ideas (Macmillan, 1933). Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921; trans. Pears & McGuinness, 1961). Zucman, Gabriel. The Hidden Wealth of Nations (2015). ──────────────────────────────────────── FILMS & SCREEN Alÿs, Francis. Paradox of Praxis 1 (Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing) (1997); The Green Line (2004). Arrow, Ruaridh. How to Start a Revolution (documentary, on Gene Sharp; 2011). Bergman, Ingmar. The Magic Lantern (Laterna Magica; memoir, 1987). Buñuel, Luis, and Salvador Dalí. Un Chien Andalou (1929). Carpenter, John. They Live (1988). Fleming, Victor. The Wizard of Oz (1939). Herzog, Werner. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972); "Minnesota Declaration: Truth and Fact in Documentary Cinema" (Walker Art Center, 1999); Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin (2019). Panahi, Jafar. This Is Not a Film (2011); Closed Curtain (2013); Taxi (2015); 3 Faces (2018); No Bears (2022). Proyas, Alex. Dark City (1998). Tarkovsky, Andrei. The Sacrifice (Offret, 1986). von Trier, Lars. Antichrist (2009); Melancholia (2011). Wachowski, Lana and Lilly. The Matrix (1999). Weir, Peter. The Truman Show (1998). ──────────────────────────────────────── WEB & MEDIA Alemanno, Alberto. "How the plastic bottle cap became a parable for the value of EU regulation." The Guardian, 27 May 2026. The Conscious Radical. Video essays and commentary (online). Ferns, Barry. Comedy and walking projects; "Barry's Economics," YouTube (2025–). Gary's Economics (Gary Stevenson). YouTube channel and commentary on wealth inequality. Gormley, Antony. Interview in Forbes, 10 June 2026 (online). Hofman, Justin. "Sewage Surfer" (photograph; Wildlife Photographer of the Year shortlist, 2017). RealTimeInequality.org — real-time distributional statistics (Blanchet, Saez & Zucman). The Rest Is Politics (Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart). Podcast. Rogers, John. Walking films and writing; the lost byway (online), including transcripts of conversations with Iain Sinclair (the Wanstead Tap, May 2024). World Inequality Database — wid.world (Chancel, Piketty, Saez, Zucman et al.). Zucman, Gabriel. "The Billionaire Tax: A Modest Proposal for the 21st Century" (UNU-WIDER Annual Lecture 28, Helsinki, 4 September 2024). ──────────────────────────────────────── THE AUTHOR'S OWN WORK Simon Bradley's own works implicated in the project include Mardship Bow (2011) and the doctoral thesis Archaeology of the Voice (2016), supported by the AHRC, both listed above, alongside unpublished and practice-based work: Magnet Opus (durational geomagnetic sonification, supported by Arts Council England), the DisplacementActivities site, the 69 Cards oral-history project, and the present concept-mapping tool, the Ontomenator. ────────────────────────────────────────

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.