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Thursday, 23 December 2004

Titles of books that are really truly on my shelves

The "The ... of ..." series:

  • The logic of practice
  • The dialectics of seeing
  • The spiritual life of children
  • The policing of families
  • The ideology of the aesthetic
  • The archaeology of knowledge
  • The history of sexuality
  • The care of the self
  • The birth of the clinic
  • The case of Sigmund Freud
  • The mismeasure of man
  • The birth of whiteness
  • The mask of benevolence
  • The politics of modernism
  • The history of the five Indian nations
  • The social life of information
  • The natural history of the rich
  • The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy
  • The rise of Silas Lapham
  • The custom of the country
  • The house of mirth
  • The wings of the dove
  • The mystery of Edwin Drood
  • The collected poems of William Carlos Williams, vol. 1
  • The last of the Mohicans
  • The red badge of courage
  • The unusual life of Tristan Smith
  • The heights of Macchu Picchu
    The "body/bodies" series:
  • Body/politics
  • Bodies and machines
  • The woman in the body
  • Posthuman bodies
  • Our bodies, ourselves
  • Flexible bodies
  • "Defects": engendering the modern body
  • Deviant bodies
    The "science" series:
  • Technoscience and cyberculture
  • Reflections on gender and science
  • Science as social knowledge
  • Sexual science
  • Science wars
  • Feminism and science
  • The "racial" economy of science (this one could go on the "The ... of" list as well)
    The "titles of three words, the second word being 'and' or '&'" series:
  • Angels & insects
  • Saints and strangers
  • Madness and civilization
  • Discipline and punish
  • Democracy and education
  • Technoscience and cyberculture [yeah, a repeat—sue me]
  • Love and theft
  • Sweetness and power
  • Bodies and machines [another repeat]
  • Feminism and science [yet another repeat]
  • Mules and men
  • Troilus and Criseyde

    And others that just sound funny, at least to me, out of context:

    The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven

    Sexwise

    Yoga for people who can't be bothered to do it

    How to do things with words

    Eat fat

    Royal commentaries of the Incas and general history of Peru

    Barbie unbound

    • Thursday, 23 December 2004 at 10:45 AM |

    Comments

    Mir

    I can't decide if I want to read "Sexwise" or "Barbie unbound" first....

    (Psssst... you ever gonna fix your link to me??) ;)

    Posted by: Mir | Thursday, 23 December 2004 at 07:04 PM

    elswhere

    Now you just need "Love & Rockets" and your "&/and" collection will be complete.

    Posted by: elswhere | Thursday, 23 December 2004 at 10:12 PM

    zeno

    i will lend you my copy of "The Poetry of Space"... and while I'm at it I think you would benefit from "The Order of Things".

    Happy thingie sweets remember to enjoy the party.

    Posted by: zeno | Saturday, 25 December 2004 at 03:28 AM

    Chris

    That's some heavy reading there! And btw, Lone Ranger and Tonto as well as Yoga For People are great great books! As are some of the others...but those two in particular are great.

    Posted by: Chris | Monday, 27 December 2004 at 02:18 PM

    Howie


    Where are all the "the adjective nouns and the nouns that verb them" titles?

    Posted by: Howie | Tuesday, 28 December 2004 at 05:57 PM

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