a beginning of a reading list: feel free to talk me into or out of various texts
Theory:
Making Things Public, Atmospheres of Democracy
Edited by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel
This one is obvious, but also out of print and $500 on amazon : (
Man, Play and Games
by Roger Caillois
On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection
by Susan Stewart
Road Belong Cargo
by Peter Lawrence
Giving an Account of Oneself
by Judith Butler
The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property
by Lewis Hyde
The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies
by Marcel Mauss
Art as Experience
by John Dewey
Possibly maybe:
The Courage to Create
by Rollo May
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Viktor Shklovsky???
Free Play: Power of Improvisation in Life and the Arts
by Stephen Nachmanovitch
Cultural Memory and the Construction of Identity
by Dan Ben-Amos
Where Good Ideas Come From: The Seven Patterns of Innovation
by Steven Johnson
What Technology Wants
by Kevin Kelly
Signs Taken for Wonders: Essays in the Sociology of Literary Forms
by Franco Moretti
Practical references:
How Are Things?: A Philosophical Experience
by Roger-Pol Droit
Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers
by Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, James Macanufo