Resources for your novel papers:
NOTE: In addition to these suggestions, feel free to use the theoretical
readings from the course syllabus and those posted under “Additional
Readings” on the blog. If you want to choose another text (other than
these listed here) to refer to in your paper, please clear it with me first.
The Box Man, Kōbō Abe:
 Susan Sontag, On Photography
 Anthony Vidler, The Architectural Uncanny
Oryx & Crake, Margaret Atwood:
 Thomas More, Utopia
 Slater, Lauren “Dr. Daedalus: A Radical Plastic Surgeon Wants to
Give You Wings,” from Harper’s Magazine, July 2001, vol. 303,
pp. 57-67.
The Mezzanine, Nicholson Baker
 Prasad Boradkar, Designing Things
 Peter-Paul Verbeek, What Things Do
Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
 Pierre Nora “Between Memory and History”
www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/.../89NoraLieuxIntroRepresentations
.pdf
 Christopher Alexander, Pattern Language (see syllabus wk 9)
My Name is Red, Orhan Pamuk
 Kwame Anthony Appiah, Cosmopolitanism
The Cave, José Saramago
 Richard Sennett, The Craftsman
 Czeslaw Milosz, The Captive Mind
The Ladies Paradise, (Au Bonheur des Dames) Émile Zola
 Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project