Video from Azoth Books

Here's a video from the Taiwanese publisher of Five Wounds, Azoth Books:

I have no idea whatsoever what the interviewee is saying, but I'm sure it's very intelligent!

Re: previous Five Wounds videos in English, here's an interview I did for The Wheeler Centre.

And here's some other introductory videos and a trailer.

Reciprocity Failure Reading List

The following is a selection of things I've been reading (or viewing) as part of the research for my novel-in-progress, Reciprocity Failure. It might give some indication of the book's themes:

Photography Books (a selection thereof):

Diane Arbus, Diane Arbus

David Bate, Photography and Surrealism

Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida

Brassaï, Paris after Dark

Brassaï, The Secret Paris of the 30s

Geoff Dyer, The Ongoing Moment

Walker Evans, American Photographs

Nan Goldin, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

John Szarkowski, Looking at Photographs

John Szarkowski, The Photographer’s Eye

Ian Walker, City Gorged with Dreams: Surrealism and Documentary Photography in Interwar Paris

Marja Warehime, Brassaï: Images of Culture and the Surrealist Observer

Literature:

Louis Aragon, Paris Peasant
Nicholson Baker, Vox
Pat Barker, The Eye in the Door
Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

Charles Baudelaire, Flowers of Evil and Paris Spleen

Charles Baudelaire, Artificial Paradises

Charles Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life, etc.

Andre Breton, Nadja

Joseph Brodsky, Watermark

Albert Camus, The Fall

Teju Cole, Open City
Evan S. Connell, Diary of a Rapist

Robert Dessaix, Night Letters

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

Marguerite Duras, The Lover

Marguerite Duras, The Malady of Death

Geoff Dyer, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
Ross Gibson, The Summer Exercises

Patrick Hamilton, 20,000 Streets Under the Sky
Patrick Hamilton, Hangover Square

Kate Holden, In My Skin: A Memoir

Kate Holden, The Romantic: Italian Nights and Days

Krissy Kneen, Affection: A Memoir of Love, Sex and Intimacy

Ben Lerner, Leaving the Atocha Station
Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

Ian McEwan, The Comfort of Strangers

Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

Anais Nin, Delta of Venus

Anais Nin, A Spy in the House of Love

Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

Suzanne Portnoy, The Butcher, The Baker, The Candlestick Maker

Jean Rhys, After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie
Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark
Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight
Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

W. G. Sebald, Austerlitz

W. G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn
W. G. Sebald, Vertigo
Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Walter, My Secret Life

Kate Zambreno, Green Girl

Criticism:

Susan Blackmore, Consciousness: A Very Short Introduction

Taylor Carman, Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Rosalyn Diprose and Jack Reynolds (eds), Merleau-Ponty: Key Concepts

Sigmund Freud and Joseph Breuer, Studies in Hysteria
Sigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle and Other Writings
Sigmund Freud, [the Dora case]
Sigmund Freud, Interpreting Dreams
Sigmund Freud, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
Sigmund Freud, The Uncanny and Other Writings

Sigmund Freud, The Unconscious
Sigmund Freud, The Wolfman and Other Cases

Martin Jay, Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought

Luce Irigaray, Elemental Passions
Rosalind Krauss, The Optical Unconscious
Elizabeth M. Legge, Max Ernst: The Psychoanalytic Sources
David Lenson, On Drugs

Michael Lewis and Tanja Staehler, Phenomenology: An Introduction

Patrick Maynard, The Engine of Visualization: Thinking Through Photography
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Basic Writings

Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy

David Papineau and Howard Selina, Consciousness: A Graphic Guide

Otto Rank, The Double
Clive Scott, The Spoken Image: Photography and Language
Susan Sontag, [various essays]
Cathryn Vasseleu, Textures of Light: Vision and Touch in Irigaray, Levinas, and Merleau-Ponty

Movies:
Michelangelo Antonioni, Blow-Up
Robert Bresson, A Man Escaped
Robert Bresson, Pickpocket
Patrice Chéreau, Intimacy
Federico Fellini, Casanova
Alfred Hitchcock, Vertigo
Steve McQueen, Shame
Nicolas Roeg, Don’t Look Now
Matthew Saville, Noise
A lot of films by Paul Schrader and Martin Scorsese, but especially Taxi Driver
Luchino Visconti, Death in Venice
Wim Wenders, Paris, Texas