Imagine Sisyphus Happy

reading list

• Adorno: The Stars Down to Earth & Other Essays on the Irrational in Culture
• Ardent: The Origins of Totalitarianism
• Bourdieu:
  • Capital
  • Distinction
• Brooks, Arthur C. “A Profession Is Not a Personality,” September 30, 2021. https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/09/self-objectification-work/620246/.
• Camus: “The Myth of Sisyphus”
• Charles-Leija, Humberto, Carlos G. Castro, Mario Toledo, and Rosalinda Ballesteros-Valdés. “Meaningful Work, Happiness at Work, and Turnover Intentions.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20, no. 4 (February 17, 2023): 3565. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20043565.
• Deleuze & Guattari: Anti-Oedipus
• Eyman, D. (2015). Digital rhetoric theory, method, practice. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press (KINDLE)
• Foucault:
  • Discursive practices
  • ethics of the self and care of the self
  • Olssen, Mark. “Foucault and Marxism: Rewriting the Theory of Historical Materialism.” Policy Futures in Education 2, no. 3–4 (September 1, 2004): 454–82. https://doi.org/10.2304/pfie.2004.2.3.3.
  • Portschy, Jürgen. “Times of Power, Knowledge and Critique in the Work of Foucault.” Time & Society 29, no. 2 (May 1, 2020): 392–419. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X20911786.
  • Subjectivity & Truth. Edited by Paul Rabinow. Vol. I. United States of America: The New Press, 1997.
• Fuhrmans, Vanessa, and Lindsay Ellis. “Why Is Everyone So Unhappy at Work Right Now? U.S. Employees Are More Dissatisfied than They Were in the Thick of the Pandemic.” Wall Street Journal (Online), November 27, 2023, sec. Management. https://www.proquest.com/docview/2893681029/citation/5E9AAEE9AB0349BDPQ/1.
• Giattino, Charlie, Esteban Ortiz-Ospina, and Max Roser. “Working Hours.” Our World in Data, December 1, 2020. https://ourworldindata.org/working-hours.
• Gramsci, Antonio (1992), Buttigieg, Joseph A (ed.), Prison notebooks, New York City: Columbia University Press
• Haraway: “A Cyborg Manifesto”
• Horkheimer & Adorno: Dialectic of Enlightenment
• Huxley: The Perennial Philosophy
• Kochhar, Rakesh. “The State of the American Middle Class,” May 31, 2024. https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2024/05/31/the-state-of-the-american-middle-class/.
  Laurel, B. (2003) The Six Elements and the Causal Relations Among Them Star Raiders: Dramatic Interaction in a Small World. In N. Wardrip-Fruin & N. Montfort (Eds.), The New Media Reader (pp. 563-573). MIT P.
• Marcuse: One-Dimensional Man
• Marr, Bernard. “A Short History Of ChatGPT: How We Got To Where We Are Today.” Forbes. Accessed April 14, 2025. https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2023/05/19/a-short-history-of-chatgpt-how-we-got-to-where-we-are-today/.
  Popova, Maria. “Theodor Adorno on Work, Pleasure, and How the Cult of Efficiency Limits Our Happiness.” The Marginalian (blog), September 11, 2015. https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/09/11/theodor-adorno-work-pleasure-gadgeteering/.
  • “Leisure, the Basis of Culture: An Obscure German Philosopher’s Timely 1948 Manifesto for Reclaiming Our Human Dignity in a Culture of Workaholism.” The Marginalian (blog), August 10, 2015. https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/08/10/leisure-the-basis-of-culture-josef-pieper/.
• Selfe, C., & Selfe, R. J. J. (1994). The politics of the interface: Power and its exercise in electronic contact zones. CCC, 45(4), 480-504
• Stearns, Peter N. “The History of Happiness.” Harvard Business Review 90, no. 1/2 (January 1, 2012): 104–9.
• Stokes‐Parish, Jessica, Rosalind Elliott, Kaye Rolls, and Debbie Massey. “Angels and Heroes: The Unintended Consequence of the Hero Narrative.” Journal of Nursing Scholarship 52, no. 5 (September 2020): 462–66. https://doi.org/10.1111/jnu.12591.
• Tufte: Envisioning Information
• Yau: Visualize This
• Zuboff: Surveillance Capitalism