Artists taking part in the exhibition Double Take have compiled ‘reading lists’ that inform and expand the themes explored in their works. A selection of these titles is available to read at Outset Study.
| Title | Author | Year | Selected by | ISBN | URL | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notes from Underground* | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Dove Allouche | 978-1503055582 | Link | Amazon | |
| Time Within Time: the Diaries 1970-86* | Andrey Tarkovsky | Dove Allouche | 978-0571167173 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Red Badge of Courage* | Stephen Crane | Dove Allouche | 978-1508482765 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Declared Enemy* | Jean Genet | Dove Allouche | 978-0804729468 | Link | Amazon | |
| Scholem, Arendt, Klemperer: Intimate Chronicles in Turbulent Times | Steven E. Aschheim | Dove Allouche | 978-0253338914 | Link | Amazon | |
| Armenian Poems | Sayat Nova | Dove Allouche | Amazon | |||
| The Crack Up | F. Scott Fitzgerald | Dove Allouche | 978-0811218207 | Link | Amazon | |
| A Violent Life* | P.P. Pasolini | Dove Allouche | 978-1857549638 | Link | Amazon | |
| Breathturn Into Timestead: the Collected Later Poetry * | Paul Celan | Dove Allouche | 978-0374125981 | Link | Amazon | |
| Starry Sky to Starry Sky* | Mary Jane White and Marina Tsvetaeva | Dove Allouche | 978-0930100254 | Link | Amazon | |
| Lenz* | Georg Büchner | Dove Allouche | 978-1482342901 | Link | Amazon | |
| Blood wedding* | Federico Garcia Lorca | Dove Allouche | 978-1854597922 | Link | Amazon | |
| The unknown masterpiece* | Honoré de Balzac | Dove Allouche | 978-0940322745 | Link | Amazon | |
| Circles * | Ralph Waldo Emerson | Josh Brand | 978-1429096249 | Link | Amazon | |
| The first book of rhythms | Langston Hughes | Josh Brand | Link | Amazon | ||
| Radha-Krsna Nama Sankirtana [sound work] | Alice Coltrane | Josh Brand | Link | Amazon | ||
| Work of Atget: Modern Times* | John Szarkowski, Maria Morris Hambourg | Margarita Gluzberg | 978-0860920823 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Accursed Share, Volume 1: Consumption* | George Bataille | Margarita Gluzberg | Link | Amazon | ||
| Theory of Religion* | Georges Bataille | Margarita Gluzberg | 978-0942299090 | Link | Amazon | |
| Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence* | Andrew Juniper | Margarita Gluzberg | 978-0804834827 | Link | Amazon | |
| In Praise Of Shadows* | Junichiro Tanizaki | Margarita Gluzberg | 978-0099283577 | Link | Amazon | |
| Madame Bovary* | Gustave Flaubert | Margarita Gluzberg | 978-0140449129 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Wild Ass's Skin (La Peau De Chagrin)* | Honoré de Balzac | Margarita Gluzberg | 978-0140443301 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Big Sleep, 1946 [film] | Howard Hawks | Margarita Gluzberg | Link | Amazon | ||
| Hans Poelzig: Reflections on His Life and Work | Julius Posener | Matt Saunders | 978-0262161275 | Link | Amazon | |
| Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror | John Ashbery | Matt Saunders | 978-1857549065 | Link | Amazon | |
| Poems and Prose | Gerard Manley Hopkins | Matt Saunders | 978-0140420159 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Collected Poems | Wallace Stevens | Matt Saunders | 978-1101911686 | Link | Amazon | |
| Posthumous Papers of a Living Author | Robert Musil | Matt Saunders | 978-0976395041 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Experience Machine: Stan Vanderbeek's Movie-Drome and Expanded Cinema | Gloria Sutton | Matt Saunders | 978-0262028493 | Link | Amazon | |
| Surface: Matters of Aesthetics, Materiality, and Media * | Giuliana Bruno | Matt Saunders | 978-0226104942 | Link | Amazon | |
| Wait for me at the Bottom of the Pool: the Writings of Jack Smith (esp. “The Perfect Filmic Appositeness of Maria Montez,” “The Memoirs of Maria Montez”) | Jack Smith | Matt Saunders | 978-1852424282 | Link | Amazon | |
| Male Fantasies Volume 1: Women, Floods, Bodies, History | Klaus Theweleit | Matt Saunders | 978-0745603834 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays (esp. “The Mass Ornament,” “Boredom,” ”Cult of Distraction,” ”The Hotel Lobby,” ”Those Who Wait”) | Siegfried Kracauer | Matt Saunders | 978-0674551633 | Link | Amazon | |
| Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings (esp. “A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic New Jersey” but, honestly, everything.) * | Robert Smithson | Matt Saunders | 978-0520203853 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Art Of Memory | Frances A. Yates | Matt Saunders | 978-1847922922 | Link | Amazon | |
| Hamlet, 1921 [film] | Svend Gade | Matt Saunders | Link | Amazon | ||
| A Touch of Zen, 1970 [film] | King Hu | Matt Saunders | Link | Amazon | ||
| Raining in the Mountain, 1979 [film] | King Hu | Matt Saunders | Link | Amazon | ||
| People On Sunday, 1929 [film] | Edgar G. Ulmer | Matt Saunders | Link | Amazon | ||
| Der Golem, 1920 (The Golem, How He Came into the World) [film] | Carl Boese | Matt Saunders | Link | Amazon | ||
| Baal, 1970 [film] | Volker Schlöndorff | Matt Saunders | Link | Amazon | ||
| The Dyer's Hand | W.H. Auden | Matt Saunders | 978-0571283507 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Goshawk | T.H. White | Matt Saunders | 978-1474601665 | Link | Amazon | |
| The work of Robert Walser | Matt Saunders | Amazon | ||||
| The Puritan Ordeal | Andrew Delbanco Delbanco | Matt Saunders | 978-0674740563 | Link | Amazon | |
| Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets | Edwin Denby | Matt Saunders | Link | Amazon | ||
| The Anarchy of the Imagination: Interviews, Essays, Notes (esp. “The Cities of Humanity and the Human Soul: Some Unorganized Thoughts on Alfred Döblin’s Novel, Berlin Alexanderplatz”) | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Matt Saunders | 978-0801843693 | Link | Amazon | |
| The critic as artist | Oscar Wilde | Matt Saunders | 978-1516852215 | Link | Amazon | |
| Observations on the Long Take [article] in October, Vol. 13 (Summer, 1980), pp. 3-6 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Matt Saunders | Amazon | |||
| Women as Hamlet: Performance and Interpretation in Theatre, Film and Fiction (esp. “’I am who I play’: Asta Nielsen”) | Tony Howard | Matt Saunders | 978-0521117210 | Link | Amazon | |
| “Picasso’s Sleepwatchers” and “The Algerian Women and Picasso At Large”in "Other Criteria: Confrontations with Twentieth-Century Art" | Leo Steinberg | Matt Saunders | 978-0226771854 | Link | Amazon | |
| “Watteau and reverie” in "Word and Image: French Painting of the Ancien Régime: French Painting of the Ancien Regime" | Norman Bryson | Matt Saunders | 978-0521276542 | Link | Amazon | |
| “Matisse and Arche-drawing” in "Painting as Model" * | Yve-alain Bois | Matt Saunders | 978-0262521802 | Link | Amazon | |
| ''A Voyage on the North Sea'': Art in the Age of the Post-Medium Condition | Rosalind Krauss | Matt Saunders | 978-0500282076 | Link | Amazon | |
| "Should an Eyelash Last Forever? An Interview with Ray Johnson." [article] in Lotta Poetica 2 (February 1984): 3-24. | Matt Saunders | Amazon | ||||
| 'What is an Apparatus?' and Other Essays | Giorgio Agamben | Thomas Zummer | 978-0804762304 | Link | Amazon | |
| Signature of All Things | Giorgio Agamben | Thomas Zummer | 978-1890951986 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Open: Man and Animal, translated by Kevin Attell | Giorgio Agamben | Thomas Zummer | Link | Amazon | ||
| Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive | Giorgio Agamben | Thomas Zummer | 978-1890951177 | Link | Amazon | |
| Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life | Giorgio Agamben | Thomas Zummer | 978-0804732185 | Link | Amazon | |
| Stanzas: The Word and the Phantasm in Western Culture | Giorgio Agamben | Thomas Zummer | 978-0816620388 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Man without Content | Giorgio Agamben | Thomas Zummer | 978-0804735544 | Link | Amazon | |
| Giorgio Agamben, cited/excerpted in “Vox Clamans in Deserto.” Jean‐Luc Nancy, translated by Nathalia King, in Notebooks in Cultural Analysis, Volume 3, a Special Issue on “Voice”, ed., Norman F. Cantor and Nathalia King [Durham: Duke University Press] 1986. pp. 3‐14. [article] | Giorgio Agamben | Thomas Zummer | Amazon | |||
| “The Rhetoric of the Image” in "Image Music Text" * | Roland Barthes | Thomas Zummer | 978-0006861355 | Link | Amazon | |
| Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography * | Roland Barthes | Thomas Zummer | 978-0099225416 | Link | Amazon | |
| ‘Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit,’ in Gesammelte Schriften, 1/2 [Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp] 1980 | Walter Benjamin | Thomas Zummer | Amazon | |||
| Gesammelte Schriften, [Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp] 1980 | Walter Benjamin | Thomas Zummer | Amazon | |||
| Problems in General Linguistics | Emile Benveniste | Thomas Zummer | 978-0870241321 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Invention of Morel and Other Stories | Adolfo Bioy-Casares | Thomas Zummer | 978-0292738409 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Technical Image: A History of Styles in Scientific Imagery | Horst Bredekamp, Vera Dankel | Thomas Zummer | 978-0226258843 | Link | Amazon | |
| Archaeology of the Cinema | C. W. Ceram | Thomas Zummer | Link | Amazon | ||
| Autoaffection: Unconscious Thought in the Age of Teletechnology | Patricia Ticineto Clough | Thomas Zummer | 978-0816628889 | Link | Amazon | |
| Le récit spéculaire: Essai sur la mise en abyme | Lucien Dällenbach | Thomas Zummer | 978-2020045568 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals | Charles Darwin | Thomas Zummer | 978-1522766353 | Link | Amazon | |
| Heterologies: Discourse on the Other | Michel de Certeau | Thomas Zummer | 978-0719014789 | Link | Amazon | |
| Jacques Derrida with Mark Lewis and Andrew Payne, “La danse des fantômes: Entrevue avec Jacques Derrida”/“Ghost Dance: An Interview with Jacques Derrida,” in Public 2, The Lunatic on One Idea, 1989 [article] | Thomas Zummer | Amazon | ||||
| Echographies of Television | Jacques Derrida, Bernard Stiegler | Thomas Zummer | 978-0745620374 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Animal That Therefore I Am | Jacques Derrida | Thomas Zummer | 978-0823227914 | Link | Amazon | |
| Margins of Philosophy | Jacques Derrida | Thomas Zummer | 978-0226143262 | Link | Amazon | |
| Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression | Jacques Derrida | Thomas Zummer | 978-0226143675 | Link | Amazon | |
| Writing and Difference | Jacques Derrida | Thomas Zummer | 978-0415253833 | Link | Amazon | |
| Discours de la methode ;: Plus La dioptrique ; Les meteores ; et La geometrie | René Descartes | Thomas Zummer | 978-2213016993 | Link | Amazon | |
| Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? | Philip K. Dick | Thomas Zummer | 978-0575079939 | Link | Amazon | |
| Confronting Images: Questioning the Ends of a Certain History of Art * | Georges Didi-Huberman | Thomas Zummer | 978-0271024721 | Link | Amazon | |
| Into the Universe of Technical Images | Vilem Flusser | Thomas Zummer | 978-0816670215 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Birth of the Clinic | Michel Foucault | Thomas Zummer | Link | Amazon | ||
| Sécurité, territoire, population : Cours au Collège de France (1977-1978) | Michel Foucault | Thomas Zummer | 978-2020307994 | Link | Amazon | |
| Naissance de la Biopolitique, Cours au Collège de France, 1978-1979 | Michel Foucault | Thomas Zummer | 978-2020324014 | Link | Amazon | |
| Materialities of Communication | Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, K. Ludwig Pfeiffer | Thomas Zummer | Link | Amazon | ||
| “The Cinema of Attractions: Early Film, Its Spectator, and the Avant-Garde,” in "Early Cinema: Space, Frame, Narrative" Edited by Thomas Elsaesser with Adam Barker * | Tom Gunning | Thomas Zummer | 978-0851702452 | Link | Amazon | |
| “The Age of the World Picture,” in The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays | Martin Heidegger | Thomas Zummer | 978-0062290700 | Link | Amazon | |
| ‘Die Zeit des Weltbildes” in "Holzwege" | Martin Heidegger | Thomas Zummer | 978-3465032380 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr | E.T.A. Hoffmann | Thomas Zummer | 978-0140446319 | Link | Amazon | |
| Releasing the Image: From Literature to New Media * | Jacques Khalip | Thomas Zummer | Link | Amazon | ||
| “Linguistics and Poetics,” in "Style in Language" edited by Thomas Sebeok | Roman Jakobson | Thomas Zummer | 978-0262690102 | Link | Amazon | |
| Gramophone, Film, Typewriter * | Friedrich A. Kittler | Thomas Zummer | 978-0804732338 | Link | Amazon | |
| Discourse Networks, 1800/1900 | Friedrich A. Kittler | Thomas Zummer | 978-0804720991 | Link | Amazon | |
| Draculas Vermächtnis: Technischen Schriften | Friedrich A. Kittler | Thomas Zummer | 978-9057010613 | Link | Amazon | |
| Emmanuel Levinas: Basic Philosophical Writings | Emmanuel Levinas | Thomas Zummer | 978-0253210791 | Link | Amazon | |
| On the Nature of the Universe | Lucretius | Thomas Zummer | 978-0199555147 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Crossing of the Visible | Jean-Luc Marion | Thomas Zummer | 978-0804733922 | Link | Amazon | |
| “Eye and Mind,” in The primacy of perception, and other essays on phenomenological psychology, the philosophy of art, history, and politics * | Maurice Merleau-Ponty | Thomas Zummer | Link | Amazon | ||
| The Pleasure in Drawing * | Jean-Luc Nancy | Thomas Zummer | 978-0823250943 | Link | Amazon | |
| Varieties of Presence | Alva Noë | Thomas Zummer | 978-0674062146 | Link | Amazon | |
| Action in Perception | Alva Noë | Thomas Zummer | 978-0262640633 | Link | Amazon | |
| Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness | Alva Noë | Thomas Zummer | 978-0809016488 | Link | Amazon | |
| Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature | Alva Noë | Thomas Zummer | 978-0809089178 | Link | Amazon | |
| The World of Silence | Max Picard | Thomas Zummer | 978-0971748316 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Natural History of Pliny Volume 2 | Pliny The Elder | Thomas Zummer | 978-1314099492 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Natural History Of Pliny, Volume 4 | Pliny The Elder | Thomas Zummer | 978-1286459270 | Link | Amazon | |
| Picture Control: Electron Microscope and the Transformation of Biology in America, 1940-60 | Nicolas Rasmussen | Thomas Zummer | 978-0804738507 | Link | Amazon | |
| After-Images of the City | Joan Ramon Resina, Dieter Ingenschay | Thomas Zummer | 978-0801487897 | Link | Amazon | |
| Event and World | Claude Romano | Thomas Zummer | 978-0823229710 | Link | Amazon | |
| Heidegger on Being and Acting: From Principles to Anarchy | Reiner Schurmann | Thomas Zummer | 978-0253206022 | Link | Amazon | |
| A Sentimental Journey: Memoirs 1917-1922 | Viktor Shklovsky | Thomas Zummer | 978-1564783547 | Link | Amazon | |
| Relays: Literature as an Epoch of the Postal System | Bernhard Siegart | Thomas Zummer | 978-0804732383 | Link | Amazon | |
| On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection | Susan Stewart | Thomas Zummer | 978-0822313663 | Link | Amazon | |
| Crimes of Writing: Problems in the Containment of Representation | Susan Stewart | Thomas Zummer | 978-0822315452 | Link | Amazon | |
| Poetry and the Fate of the Senses | Susan Stewart | Thomas Zummer | 978-0226774145 | Link | Amazon | |
| Technics and Time: The Fault of Epimetheus No. 1 | Bernard Stiegler | Thomas Zummer | 978-0804730419 | Link | Amazon | |
| Saturn’s Children | Charles Stross | Thomas Zummer | 978-1841495682 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture | Mark C. Taylor | Thomas Zummer | 978-0226791173 | Link | Amazon | |
| Tomorrow's Eve | Villiers de l'Isle-Adam | Thomas Zummer | 978-0252069550 | Link | Amazon | |
| War and Cinema: The Logistics of Perception | Paul Virilio | Thomas Zummer | 978-1844673469 | Link | Amazon | |
| A Landscape of Events | Paul Virilio | Thomas Zummer | 978-0262720342 | Link | Amazon | |
| The Vision Machine | Paul Virilio | Thomas Zummer | 978-0851704449 | Link | Amazon | |
| ‘Projection and Dis/Embodiment: Genealogies of the Virtual” in "Moving Image" edited by Omar Kholeif (Documents of Contemporary Art) | Thomas Zummer | Thomas Zummer | 978-0854882380 | Link | Amazon | |
| “Variables: Notations on Stability, Permeability, and Plurality in Media Artifacts,” in "Saving the Image: Art After Film" edited by Tanya Leighton and Pavel Buchler, [Glasgow and Manchester: Center for Photography/Glasgow and Manchester Metropolitan University] 2003 | Thomas Zummer | Thomas Zummer | Amazon | |||
| ‘( explosion )’ in "Is this what you were born for? : Stratégies d'appropriation et collage audio-visuel dans les films d'Abigail Child" edited by by François Bovier [film] | Thomas Zummer | Thomas Zummer | 978-2940406265 | Link | Amazon | |
| "The Appearance of Animals" (Leslie Thornton) | Ventriloquoy (名) 腹语术 (Ellen Zweig)’ in "Split Attention" edited by Fan Lin [Shanghai, China: 53art press] 2012 | Thomas Zummer | Thomas Zummer | Amazon |
Titles marked with an asterix * are held in the Outset Study library