Neko

fav things ive read in grad school

a collection of some of the favorite things i've read throughout grad school. not a definitive list, but things i recall being particularly enjoying to read.

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if there is still something here that you want to read, and cannot access because of a journal paywall, contact me... academic research should be free and public!

Book cover of Appalachian Ghost by Raymond Thompson Jr. Book cover of Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble Cover of T. L. Taylor's journal article, The Assemblage of Play Book cover of Black Skin, White Masks by Franz Fanon Book cover of Carnal Thoughts: Embodiment and Moving Image Culture by Vivian Sobchack Book cover of Cinema 2: The Time-Image by Gilles Deleuze Book cover of Cruel Optimism by Lauren Berlant Book cover of Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics by Jacques Ranciere Cover of Caetlin Benson-Allott's journal article, Dreadful Architecture: Zones of Horror in Alien and Lee Bontecou's Wall Sculptures Book cover of Culture and Imperialism by Edward Said Cover of Sianne Ngai's journal article, The Cuteness of the Avant-Garde Cover of Dana Luciano and Mel Y. Chen's journal article, Introduction: Has the Queer Ever Been Human? Title of Darren Hudson Hick's journal article, Horror and Its Affects Book cover of Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari Cover of Alenda Y. Chang's book Playing Nature: Ecology in Video Games Book cover of Playing the Past: History and Nostalgia in Video Games, an edited collection by Zach Whalen and Laurie N. Taylor Cover of special journal collection, Object-Oriented Feminism. Edited by Katherine Behar Cover of Ben Highmore's journal article, Out of Place: Unprofessional Painting, Jacques Ranciere and the Distribution of the Sensible Cover of Teddy Pozo's journal article, Queer Games After Empathy: Feminism and Haptic Game Design Aesthetics from Consent to Cuteness to the Radically Soft Cover of Sara Ahmed's essay, Race as sedimented history Book cover of Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America by Sadiya V. Hartman Book cover of Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde Book cover of The Skin of the Film: Intercultural Cinema, Embodiment, and the Senses by Laura U. Marks Book cover of Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor by Rob Nixon Book cover of Ugly Feelings by Sianne Ngai Cover of Sadiya Hartman's journal article, Venus in Two Acts Book cover of Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things by Jane Bennett

last updated: 29 july 2026