ARTF2064
Module Reading List

Live Issues and Contemporary Art Practice, 2021/22, Semester 1
Diane Morgan
findlm@leeds.ac.uk
Tutor information is taken from the Module Catalogue

Bibliography (in order of appearance)

Essential Reading

Clive Hamilton Requiem for a Species : Why We Resist The Truth About Climate Change

John Christopher Death of Grass (1956)

Auguste Blanqui Eternity by the Stars

Friedrich Nietzsche Thus Spoke Zarathustra especially “The Prologue”, “Of the Three Metamorphoses”, “Of the Afterworldsmen”, “Of Self-Overcoming”, “The Prophet”, “Of Redemption”, “On the Vision and the Riddle”, “Of the Higher Man”, “Amongst the Daughters of the Desert”, “The Awakening”, “The Ass Festival”, “The Intoxicated Song”, “The Sign”.

Friedrich Nietzsche Will to Power esp. Part One “European Nihilism” but all is interesting and relevant.

Albert Camus Myth of Sisyphus

Etienne de La Boétie The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude

Albert Camus The Rebel

Henry David Thoreau “Civil Disobedience” and "Walden"

Gene Sharp From Dictatorship to Democracy

J-P Lederach The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Peacebuilding

Clive Hamilton Defiant Earth: The Fate of Humans in the Anthropocene

Also highly recommended:

John Wyndham Day of the Triffids

J.G. Ballard The Drowned World

Kim Stanley Robinson e.g New York 2040