Bibliography
A necessarily partial list of texts that have informed the work of the Royal Academy.
2008
Bradley, Will, et al., eds. Self-Organisation: Counter-Economic Strategies. New York: Sternberg Press, 2006.
Chang, Jeff. Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip Hop Generation. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2005.
Gibson, James J. The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979.
Illich, Ivan. Tools for Conviviality. New York: Harper & Row, 1973.
Illich, Ivan. Toward a History of Needs. New York: Pantheon Books, 1978.
Lelong, Guy. Daniel Buren. Paris: Flammarion, 2002.
Mason, Matt. The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism. New York: Free Press, 2008.
2007
Carter, Jimmy. Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.
Chung, Chuihua Judy, et al., eds. The Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping. New York: Taschen, 2001.
Friedman, Thomas L. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.
Ginsborg, Paul. The Politics of Everyday Life: Making Choices, Changing Lives. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.
Hawken, Paul, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins. Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1999.
Klein, Naomi. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. New York: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2007.
Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition. London: Verso, 1998.
Mitchell, William J. Placing Words: Symbols, Space, and the City. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005.
Neuwirth, Robert. Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World. New York: Routledge, 2005.
Singer, Peter. One World: The Ethics of Globalization. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.
Steffen, Alex, et al., eds. Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century. New York: Abrams, 2006.
Thackara, John. In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005.
Waal, Frans de. Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006.
2006
Alt, Julie. Come Alive! The Spirited Art of Sister Corita. London: Four Corners Books, 2006.
Fischer, Steven Roger. A History of Reading. London: Reaktion Books, 2003.
Fraser, Andrea. Museum Highlights: The Writings of Andrea Fraser. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005.
Kraybill, Donald B., and Marc A. Olshan, eds. The Amish Struggle with Modernity. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1994.
Lang, Peter, and William Menking. Superstudio: Life Without Objects. Milan: Skira, 2003.
Lumpkin, Libby. Deep Design: Nine Little Art Histories. Los Angeles: Art Issues Press, 1999.
Pasternak, Anne, Doug Ashford et al. Who Cares. New York: Creative Time Books, 2006.
2005
Doherty, Claire, ed. Contemporary Art: From Studio to Situation. London: Black Dog Publishing, 2004.
Morin, France. Heavenly Visions: Shaker Gift Drawings and Gift Songs. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001.
Steiner, Barbara, Rein Wolfs, Heike Munder, and Doris Berger, eds. Inventory: The Work of Christine Hill and Volksboutique. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2003.
2004
Bernadette Corporation. Reena Spaulings. New York: Semiotext(e), 2004.
Blauvelt, Andrew. Strangely Familiar: Design and Everyday Life. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2003.
Canetti, Elias. Crowds and Power (1960). Trans. Carol Stewart. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1984.
Flam, Jack, ed. Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.
Lefebvre, Henri. The Production of Space (1974). Trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith. Oxford: Blackwell, 1991.
Tuan, Yi-Fu. Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1977.
2003
Bennis, Warren. On Becoming a Leader (1989). Cambridge, MA: Perseus Books, 1994.
Cruz, Amanda. Dave Muller: Connections. Annadale-on-Hudson, NY: Center for Curatorial Studies, 2002.
Darling, Michael, and Rita Kersting. Sam Durant. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2002.
Dean, Andrea Oppenheimer, and Timothy Hursley. Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2002.
Debord, Guy. The Society of the Spectacle (1967). Trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith. New York: Zone Books, 1994.
de Certeau, Michel. The Practice of Everyday Life. Trans. Steven Rendall. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1984.
Ewen, Stuart. Captains of Consciousness: Advertising and the Social Roots of Consumer Culture (1976). New York: Basic Books, 2001.
Florida, Richard. The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community, and Everyday Life. New York: Basic Books, 2002.
Foster, Hal. Design and Crime, and Other Diatribes. London: Verso, 2002.
Godard, Jean-Luc. Made in USA, Screenplay. London: Lorrimer, 1967.
Hayles, Katherine. Writing Machines. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002.
Hebdige, Dick. Subculture: The Meaning of Style. London: Routledge, 1979.
Hostetler, John A. Amish Society. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1963.
Jenkins, Henry. Textual Poachers: Television Fans & Participatory Culture. New York: Routledge, 1992.
Laporte, Dominique. The History of Shit. Trans. Nadia Benabid and Rodolphe el-Khoury. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000.
Marcus, Greil. Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989.
Morris, Catherine, curator; Klaus Bussmann and Markus Müller, eds. Food: An Exhibition by White Columns, New York. Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 1999.
Museum of Jurassic Technology. The Museum of Jurassic Technology: Primi Decem Anni, Jubilee Catalogue. West Covina, CA: Society for the Diffusion of Useful Information Press, 2002.
Myers, Kathy. Understains: The Sense and Seduction of Advertising. London: Comedia, 1986.
Sjöman, Vilgot. I Am Curious (Yellow). Trans. Martin Minow and Jenny Bohman. New York: Grove Press, 1968.
Stillman, Whit. Barcelona; Metropolitan: Tales of Two Cities. Boston: Faber and Faber, 1994.
Strauss, Erwin S. How to Start Your Own Country: How You Can Profit from the Coming Decline of the Nation State (1979). Port Townsend, WA: Loopanics Unlimited, 1984.
Tisdall, Caroline. Joseph Beuys, Coyote. Munich: Schirmer-Mosel, 1980.
2002
Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verson, 1983.
Barber, Benjamin R. Jihad vs. McWorld. New York: TImes Books, 1995.
Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990). New York: Routledge, 1999.
Carson, Anne. Autobiography of Red. New York: Vintage, 1998.
Clarke, Alison and Daniel Miller. "Fashion and Anxiety." Fashion Theory, Vol. 6, Issue 2 (June 2002), 191-214.
Davis, Meredith, et al. Design as a Catalyst for Learning. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1997.
Dewey, John. Experience and Education (1938). New York: MacMillan, 1958.
Dunne, Anthony, and Fiona Raby. Design Noir: The Secret Life of Electronic Objects. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2001.
Eva & Adele. Eva & Adele: Logo: Mediaplastic - Wings - Lingerie. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2000.
Frascara, Jorge. User-centred Graphic Design. London?: Taylor & Francis, 199?.
Holland, DK, ed. Design Issues: How Graphic Design Informs Society. New York: Allworth Press, 2001.
Hughes, Jonathan and Simon Sadler, eds. Non-Plan: Essays on Freedom, Participation, and Change in Modern Architecture and Urbanism. Oxford: Architectural Press, 2000.
Lavin, Maud. Clean New World: Culture, Politics, and Graphic Design. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001.
Mamet, David. Speed the Plow. New York: Grove Press, 1988.
Margolin, Victor. The Politics of the Artificial: Essays on Design and Design Studies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Murray, Janet. Hamlet on the Holodeck. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,1997.
Negroponte, Nicholas. Being Digital. New York: Vintage, 1996.
Nunberg, Geoffrey, ed. The Future of the Book. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.
Poynor, Rick. Obey the Giant: Life in the Image World. Basel, Boston, Berlin: Birkhauser, 2001.
Shortney, Joan Ranson. How to Live on Nothing. New York: Pocket Books, 1971.
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Whitely, Nigel. Design for Society. London: Reaktion Books, 1993.
Young, Toby. How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. Cambridge, MA: De Capo Press, 2001.
Zinn, Harold. A People's History of the United States. New York: Harper Collins, 1999.
2001
Acker, Kathy. My Mother: Demonology. New York: Pantheon Books, 1993.
Andreotti, Libero and Xavier Costa, eds. Theory of the Dérive and Other Situationist Writings on the City. Barcelona: Actar, 1996.
Bakhtin, Mikhail M. The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays. Michael Holquist, ed. Trans. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981.
Barthelme, Donald. The Dead Father. New York: Pocket Books, 1975.
Barthes, Roland. Mythologies (1957). Trans. Annette Lavers. New York: Hill and Wang, 1972.
Basso, Keith. Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996.
Bowman, David. This Must Be the Place: The Adventures of Talking Heads in the 20th Century. New York: HarperEntertainment, 2001.
Bruggen, Coosje van. John Baldessari. New York: Rizzoli, 1990.
Cook, Peter, ed. Archigram (1972). New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999.
DeLynn, Jane. Leash. Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2001.
Gross, Michael. Model. New York: Warner Books, 1996.
Harris, Steve and Deborah Berke, ed. Architecture of the Everyday. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1997.
Kimura, Minoru, Mika Koike, and Mitsuyoshi Sakano, eds. Kawamata Project on Roosevelt Island. New York: On the Table inc., 1993.
Kippenberger, Martin. I Had a Vision. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1991.
Klein, Naomi. No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies. New York: Picador, 1999.
Kraus, Chris and Sylvère Lotringer, eds. Hatred of Capitalism: A Semiotext(e) Reader. Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2001.
Mau, Bruce. Lifestyle. London: Phaidon, 2000.
Mullican, Matt. Matt Mullican: More Details from an Imaginary Universe. Torino, Italy: Hopefulmonster, 2000.
Nolan, William F. and George Clayton Johnson. Logan's Run (1967). New York: Bantam Books, 1976.
Ong, Walter J. Orality & Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word. London: Routledge, 1982.
Perec, Georges. Things: A Story of the Sixties and A Man Asleep (1965, 1967). Trans. ?????. Boston: David R. Godine Publisher, 1990.
Sadler, Simon. The Situationist City. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998.
Saunders, George. Pastoralia. New York: Riverhead Books, 2000.
Schatz, Thomas. The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era. New York: Pantheon, 1988.
Sorkin, Michael, ed. Variations on a Theme Park. New York: Hill and Wang, 1992.
Sterritt, David. Jean-Luc Godard: Interviews. Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press, 1998.
Sussman, Elizabeth, ed. On the Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time: The Situationist International, 1957-1972. Boston: Institute of Contemporary Art; MIT Press, 1989.
Wagner, Jon and Jan Lundeen. Deep Space and Sacred Time: Star Trek in the American Mythos. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998.
Wigley, Mark. Constant's New Babylon: The Hyper-architecture of Desire. Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 1998.
Wolf, Michael J. The Entertainment Economy: How Mega-Media Forces Are Transforming Our Lives. New York: Random House, 1999.
2000
Abrams, Janet, ed. If/Then. Amsterdam: Netherlands Design Institute, 1999.
Atelier van Lieshout. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 1998.
Cauty, Jimmy, and Bill Drummond. The Manual: How to Have a Number One the Easy Way (1988). London: Ellipsis, 1998.
Conde, Yago. Architecture of the Indeterminacy. Barcelona: Actar, 2000.
Febvre, Lucien, and Henri-Jean Martin. The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450-1800 (1958). Translated by David Gerard. London: Verso, 1997.
Galani, Annemarie. Stallinga. Amsterdam: BIS Publishers, 2000.
Hickey, Dave. Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy. Los Angeles: Art Issues Press, 1997.
Koons, Jeff, and Robert Violette, eds. The Jeff Koons Handbook. New York: Rizzoli, 1992.
Kundera, Milan. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1978). Trans. Aaron Asher. New York: HarperPerennial, 1996.
Kundera, Milan. The Art of the Novel (1986). New York: HarperPerennial, 1988.
Kundera, MIlan. Immortality (1990). Trans. Peter Kussi. New York: HarperPerennial, 1992.
Landow, George P. Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.
Lauwen, Toon, ed. Identities: Rotterdam 2001, Cultural Capital of Europe. Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 1999.
Let's Entertain: Life's Guilty Pleasures. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2000.
Linker, Kate. Vito Acconci. New York: Rizzoli, 1994.
Lish, Gordon. Arcade, or, How to Write a Novel. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1998.
Lunenfeld, Peter. "Visual Intellectuals." Artext No. 70 (Aug–Oct 2000): 17–19.
Porter, Bern. The Wastemaker: 1926–1961. Somerville, MA: Abyss Publications, 1972.
Salazar, Jaime. MVRDV at VPRO. Barcelona: Actar, 1999.
Saunders, George. Civilwarland in Bad Decline. New York: Random House, 1996.
Spoerri, Daniel. An Anecdoted Topography of Chance (Re-Anecdoted Version). Translated by Emmett Williams. New York: Something Else Press,1966.
Todorov, Tzvetan. Introduction to Poetics (1968). Trans. ?????. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1981.
Weschler, Lawrence. Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology. New York: Vintage Books, 1995.
Wilde, Oscar. The Critic as Artist (1888). København: Green Integer, 1997.
Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891). New York: Modern Library, 1998.
Zijl, Ida van. Droog Design 1991–1996. Utrecht: Centraal Museum, 1997.
1900s
Althusser, Louis. "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" (1970). Trans. Ben Brewster. Anthology Title ???. Editor??, Ed. ????: ???, ????.
Barthelme, Donald. Snow White (1965). New York: Scribner Paperback Fiction, 1996.
Barthes, Roland. Elements of Semiology (1964). Trans. Annette Lavers and Colin Smith. New York: Hill and Wang, 1973.
Baudrillard, Jean. Simulations. Trans. Paul Foss, Paul Patton, and Philip Beitchman. New York: Semiotext(e), 1983.
Baudrillard, Jean. America. Trans. Chris Turner. London: Verso, 1988.
Bénabou, Marcel. Why I Have Not Written Any of My Books (1986). Trans. by David Kornacker. Lincoln, N?: University of Nebraska Press, 1996.
Bierut, Michael, William Drenttel, Steven Heller, and DK Holland, ed. Looking Closer 2: Critical Writings on Graphic Design. New York: Allworth Press, 1997.
Blackwell, Lewis. 20th Century Type [Remix]. Corte Madera, CA: Gingko Press, 1998.
Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451 (1953). New York: Ballantine Books, 1989.
Burgess, Anthony. A Clockwork Orange (1962). New York: Ballantine Books, 1988.
Calvino, Italo. Invisible Cities (1972). Trans. William Weaver. San Diego: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1978.
Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung. Dictee (1982). Berkely: Third Woman Press, 1995.
Cixous, Hélène, and Catherine Clément. The Newly Born Woman (1975). Trans. by Betsy Wing. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986.
Cooper, Martha, and Henry Chalfant, eds. Subway Art. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984.
Cummings, Neil, ed. Reading Things. London: Chance Books, 1993.
Davis, Lydia. Almost No Memory. Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, 1997.
Deitch, Jeffrey, and Dan Friedman, eds. Artificial Nature. Athens: Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, 1990.
DeLillo, Don. White Noise. New York: Viking, 1985.
DeLillo, Don. Underworld. New York: Scribner, 1997.
Duchamp, Marcel, and Richard Hamilton (designer). The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even. Trans. George Heard Hamilton. Stuttgart: Edition Hansjörg Mayer, 1976.
Dunne, Anthony. "Design Noir." Blueprint Nov 1998: 24-25.
Eco, Umberto. A Theory of Semiotics (????). Trans. ????. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1976.
Eco, Umberto. Travels in Hyperreality: Essays. Trans. William Weaver. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986.
Ellis, Bret Easton. Less Than Zero (1985). New York: Vintage Contemporaries, 1998.
Ernst, Max. A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil. Trans. Dorothea Tanning. New York: George Braziller, 1982.
Glauber, Barbara, ed. Lift and Separate: Graphic Design and the Quote, Unquote Vernacular. New York: Cooper Union, 1993.
Hall, Peter, and Michael Bierut. Tibor Kalman: Perverse Optimist. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1998.
Heller, Steven, ed. The Education of a Graphic Designer. New York: Allworth Press, 1998.
Higgins, Dick. Modernism since Postmodernism: Essays on Intermedia. San Diego: San Diego State University Press, 1997.
Hine, Thomas. The Total Package: The Secret History and Hidden Meanings of Boxes, Bottles, Cans, and Other Pursuasive Containers. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1995.
Hoffman, Eva. Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language. New York: Penguin Books, 1989.
Hughes, Ted, and Frances McCullough, eds. The Journals of Sylvia Plath. New York: Ballantine Books, 1983.
Ibelings, Hans. Supermodernism: Architecture in the Age of Globalization. Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 1998.
Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916). New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991.
Kafka, Franz. The Metamorphosis, The Penal Colony, and Other Stories (1948). Trans. Willa and Edwin Muir. New York: Schocken Books, 1988.
Kinross, Robin. Fellow Readers: Notes on Multiplied Language. London: Hyphen Press, 1994.
Kinross, Robin, Jaap van Triest, and Karel Martens, eds. Karel Martens: Printed Matter. London: Hyphen Press, 1996.
Kinross, Robin. Modern Typography: An Essay in Critical History. London: Hyphen Press, 1992.
Koolhaas, Rem, and Bruce Mau. S,M,L,XL: Office for Metropolitan Architecture. New York: Monacelli Press, 1995.
Kosuth, Joseph. Art after Philosophy and After: Collected Writings, 1966–1990. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991.
Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable LIghtness of Being (1984). Trans. by Michael Henry Heim. New York: HarperPerennial, 1987.
Kruger, Barbara. Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993.
Leyner, Mark. The Tetherballs of Bougainville. New York: Vintage Contemporaries, 1997.
Lupton, Ellen. Mixing Messages: Graphic Design in Contemporary Culture. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996.
Lutz, Gary. Stories in the Worst Way. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.
Marcus, Ben. The Age of Wire and String (1995). Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 1998.
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McLuhan, Marshall and Quentin Fiore. The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects (1967). San Francisco: Hardwired, 1996.
Müller, Lars, ed. Josef Müller-Brockmann: Pioneer of Swiss Graphic Design. Baden: Lars Müller Publishers, 1995.
Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita (1955). New York: Vintage International, 1989.
New Collectivism, ed. Neue Slowenische Kunst. Los Angeles: Amok, 1991.
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Rothfuss, Joan. On a Balcony: A Novel (Mark Luyten). Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1997.
Sartre, Jean-Paul. No Exit and Three Other Plays (1946, 1947). Translated by Lionel Abel and Stuart Gilbert. New York: Vintage International, 1989.
Shields, David. Remote. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.
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Tschichold, Jan. The New Typography: A Handbook for Modern Designers (1928). Trans. Rauri McLean. Berkely, CA: University of California Press, 1995.
Tschichold, Jan. The Form of the Book : Essays on the Morality of Good Design (195?). ???: Hartley & Marks, 1997.
Venturi, Robert, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour. Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form (1972). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1977.
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