This book is part of the reading list supplied by Heather Phillipson in her exhibition at BALTIC Heather Phillipson: The Age of Love (19 October 2018 – 31 March 2019)
“The word ‘love’ is most often defined as a noun, yet . . . we would all love better if we used it as a verb,” writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, the renowned scholar, cultural critic, and feminist skewers our view of love as romance. In its place she offers a proactive new ethic for a people and a society bereft with lovelessness.As Bell Hooks uses her incisive mind and razor-sharp pen to explore the question “What is love?” her answers strike at both the mind and heart. In thirteen concise chapters, hooks examines her own search for emotional connection and society’s failure to provide a model for learning to love. Razing the cultural paradigm that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, redemptive, and healing for individuals and for a nation. The Utne Reader declared bell hooks one of the “100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life.” All About Love is a powerful affirmation of just how profoundly she can.
This is the full reading list (NB. Not all of these are available in BALTIC Library)
BOOKS
Butler, Octavia: Blood Child
Cavell, Stanley; Diamond, Cora;, McDowell, John; Hacking, Ian; Wolfe, Cary: Philosophy and Animal Life
Carrington, Leonora: The Debutante & Other Stories
Carrington, Leonora: Jezzamathatics or introduction to the wonderful process of painting (artist's statement)
Carson, Rachel: Silent Spring
Derrida, Jacques: The Animal that Therefore I Am
Easterling, Keller: Enduring Innocence
Eshun, Kodwo: More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction
Haraway, Donna: Staying with the Trouble
Hildyard, Daisy - Second Body
Hooks, Bell: All About Love
Howard, Len: Birds as Individuals
Myles, Eileen: Afterglow
Pasarello, Elena: Animals Strike Curious Poses
Rich, Adrienne: Arts of the Possible
Ruocco, Joanna: Multi-Course Small Plates, Craft Lofts, Prix Fixe
Steyerl, Hito: The Terror of Total Dasein http://dismagazine.com/blog/78352/the-terror-of-total-dasein-hito-steyerl/
Two Fingers & Kirk, James T.: Junglist (Backstreet)
FILMS
Juliette of the Herbs, Dir. Trish Streeten
Heart of a Dog, Dir. Laurie Anderson​ |