Critical Theory

• Course in General Linguistics by Ferdinand de Saussure
• The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
• "Against Interpretation" by Susan Sontag
• "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes Towards an Investigation)" by Louis Althusser
• "In Plato’s Cave" On Photography by Susan Sontag
• "On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense" by Friedrich Nietzsche
• "On Violence" The Wretched of the Earth by Franz Fanon
• "Performative Acts and Gender Constitution" by Judith Butler
• "Performative Utterances" by J.L. Austin
• "Regarding the Pain of Others" Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
• "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception" The Dialectic of Enlightenment by Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno
• "The Fact of Blackness" Black Skin, White Masks by Franz Fanon
• "The History of Sexuality" by Michel Foucault
• "The Order of Discourse" by Michel Foucault
• "The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility" by Walter Benjamin
• "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" by Laura Mulvey
• "What is Postmodernism?" The Postmodern Condition by Jean-François Lyotard