perks–2

cover, a perks' reading list, volume two

a perks' reading list, volume two
on refusal, exodus, and the artist as institution
reader for B R E E D

october 2026. 115 readings in 20 chapters and seven sessions. the introduction and the opening of each chapter are withheld. the excerpts of each chapter are linked beside its title; all excerpts.

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session one: the condition

1. the stalled present: why nothing seems to move → excerpts

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1.01 Gilles Deleuze, Postscript on the Societies of Control L'Autre journal, no. 1, May 1990
1.02 Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? Zero Books, 2009
1.03 W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century Viking, 2025
1.04 Katy Siegel, The End of Neoliberal Art: Populism, Pluralism, and the Lessons of '76 Artforum, Summer 2026

2. the delirious professions: the artist as content → excerpts

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2.01 Paul Valéry, Lettre d'un ami (Monsieur Teste) Œuvres II, Pléiade, edited by Jean Hytier (epub)
2.02 Samuel W. Franklin, The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History University of Chicago Press, 2023
2.03 Brad Troemel, Athletic Aesthetics The New Inquiry, 2013
2.04 Sianne Ngai, Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020
2.05 Joanna Walsh, Amateurs (excerpt) Spike, 28 October 2025
2.06 Domenick Ammirati, Do You Have to Be Hot to Get Ahead? Spike Art Magazine, online
2.07 Isabelle Graw, Welcome to the Resort: Six Theses on the Latest Structural Transformation of the Artistic Field Texte zur Kunst 127, "Resortization", September 2022

3. the slop syndrome: the strip, junkspace, airspace → excerpts

3.01 Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Steven Izenour, Learning from Las Vegas MIT Press, revised edition, 1977
3.02 Rem Koolhaas, Junkspace; Hal Foster, Running Room Notting Hill Editions, 2013
3.03 Kyle Chayka, Welcome to AirSpace The Verge, 3 August 2016
3.04 Hari Kunzru, Slopocalypse Now Artforum, Year in Review, December 2025
3.05 Kieran Press-Reynolds, Shitpostmodernism: Understanding the Slopgeneration Spike Art Magazine, April 2026
3.06 Andrew Berardini, Let's Talk About Artificial Intelligence Art English Mousse 93, October 2025
3.07 Gideon Jacobs, All Images Are Quite Useless Now Spike Art Magazine, online
3.08 Kevin Munger, Hello Goodbye Real Life, 12 April 2021

session two: refusal

4. the strategy of refusal: Italy, 1960-1977 → excerpts

4.01 Mario Tronti, Workers and Capital Verso, 2019
4.02 Sylvère Lotringer, Christian Marazzi (eds.), Autonomia: Post-Political Politics Semiotext(e), vol. III, no. 3, 1980
4.03 Nanni Balestrini, Primo Moroni, The Golden Horde: Revolutionary Italy, 1960-1977 Seagull Books, 2021
4.04 Nanni Balestrini, We Want Everything Verso, 2016
4.05 Diedrich Diederichsen, The War on Bohemia Artforum, Year in Review, December 2025
4.06 Jacopo Galimberti, Andreas Petrossiants, Class Acts: Autonomia and the Future of Creative Work Artforum, Books interview, online, 7 December 2022

5. empire and exodus: leaving without moving → excerpts

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5.01 Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, Empire Harvard University Press, 2000
5.02 Paolo Virno, A Grammar of the Multitude Semiotext(e), 2004
5.03 Paolo Virno, Multitude: Between Innovation and Negation Semiotext(e), 2008
5.04 John Roberts, The Intangibilities of Form: Skill and Deskilling in Art after the Readymade Verso, 2007
5.05 Suhail Malik, Exit Not Escape (On the Necessity of Art's Exit from Contemporary Art, I) Lecture at Artists Space, New York, 2013
5.06 Daniel Baumann, What Happened to the Curator? Spike 80, 2024
5.07 Suhail Malik, Reason to Destroy Contemporary Art Spike Art Magazine, 2016

6. doing less: the unfinished, the badly made

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6.01 David Homewood, Penguin Potboiler (on Merlin Carpenter, Stress Busters) Texte zur Kunst online, May 2024
6.02 Hiji Nam, Merlin Carpenter (Paint-It-Yourself, Reena Spaulings Fine Art) Artforum, May/June 2020
6.03 Valentina Liernur, Plays on Participation (on Merlin Carpenter, Room Based: The Paintings) Texte zur Kunst online, September 2022
6.04 Bernadette Van-Huy, John Kelsey, Jim Fletcher, Bernadette Corporation (in conversation with Emmanuel Olunkwa) November, 16 April 2024
6.05 Bernadette Corporation, Statement on 2000 Wasted Years, Artists Space Artforum, online, 8 September 2012
6.06 Klein (interviewed by Khalila Douze), Klein Is Funny as Hell The FADER, 27 September 2017
6.07 Dean Blunt (interviewed by FACT), Inga's Was the Only Opinion That Mattered FACT, 14 October 2013
6.08 Seth Price, Wrong Seeing, Odd Thinking, Strange Action Texte zur Kunst 106, "The New New Left", June 2017
6.09 Martin Herbert, You Made Me Do This Mousse 89, October 2024

session three: the body that refuses

7. form-of-life: the young-girl, bloom, the commune → excerpts

7.01 Tiqqun, Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl Semiotext(e), 2012
7.02 Tiqqun, Theory of Bloom English translation by Robert Hurley, LBC Books, 2012
7.03 Tiqqun, Introduction to Civil War Semiotext(e), 2010
7.04 The Invisible Committee, The Coming Insurrection Semiotext(e), 2009

8. whatever singularity: a community without conditions → excerpts

8.01 Giorgio Agamben, What Is the Contemporary? (in What Is an Apparatus? and Other Essays) Stanford University Press, 2009
8.02 Giorgio Agamben, The Coming Community University of Minnesota Press, 1993

9. the name as container: authorship without an author → excerpts

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9.01 Bernadette Corporation, Reena Spaulings Semiotext(e), 2005
9.02 John Kelsey, Rich Texts: Selected Writing for Art Sternberg Press, 2010
9.03 Claire Fontaine, Human Strike Has Already Begun & Other Writings Mute and Post-Media Lab, 2013
9.04 David Joselit, Four Theses on Branding (on the 9th Berlin Biennale) Texte zur Kunst 103, September 2016
9.05 Gabriella Coleman, Simon Denny, Sociocultural Ciphers Texte zur Kunst 143, "Anonymity", September 2026

session four: precedents

10. to build a house → excerpts

10.01 Carl E. Schorske, Fin-de-siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture Alfred A. Knopf, 1980
10.02 John Cassavetes, Cassavetes on Cassavetes Faber and Faber, 2001
10.03 Clive Phillpot, Fluxus: Magazines, Manifestos, Multum in Parvo Text published by the George Maciunas Foundation, with the text of the 1963
10.04 Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg, Dogme 95 Manifesto and Vow of Chastity Jerome P. Schaefer, An Edgy Realism: Film Theoretical Encounters with Dogma 95, New French Extremity, and the Shaky-Cam Horror Film, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015
10.05 Nancy Princenthal, Artists Space The Brooklyn Rail, July-August 2020
10.06 V. Vale, Andrea Juno (eds.), RE/Search 6/7: Industrial Culture Handbook RE/Search Publications, 1983
10.07 Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson, About October October, no. 1, Spring 1976
10.08 John Ganz, The Shift to Vibes Unpopular Front, 16 July 2022
10.09 John Ganz, Vibes Cartel Unpopular Front, 2 February 2025
10.10 Pablo Larios, After the Great Decentering: What Comes Next? Mousse 79, March 2022
10.11 Mason Leaver-Yap, Distributing Dependency: Reconditioning Institutional Production for Artists Mousse online, 4 November 2021
10.12 Theo Belci, Trouble Dutch: On Keeping It Real Art Critics Artforum, Summer 2025
10.13 Domenick Ammirati, The Gimmick's Shadow Artforum, January 2023
10.14 Hedi El Kholti, Chris Kraus, On Sylvère Lotringer Artforum, February 2022
10.15 Clémentine Deliss, Manifesto on Neighborly Dislike as Curatorial Critique Mousse 85, October 2023
10.16 Forensic Architecture (Nour Abuzaid, Elizabeth Breiner, Eyal Weizman), Forensics Is What the State Does, Counter-Forensics Is What We Do Mousse 94, January 2026
10.17 Richard Turley (interviewed by Biz Sherbert), Once You Hit Export on the PDF, That's It Spike Art Magazine, online

session five: what work does

11. expenditure and the formless: the sun and the dépense → excerpts

11.01 Georges Bataille, The Notion of Expenditure; Formless (in Visions of Excess) University of Minnesota Press, 1985
11.02 Georges Bataille, The Accursed Share, vol. I: Consumption Zone Books, 1988
11.03 Yve-Alain Bois, The Use Value of Formless (in Bois and Krauss, Formless: A User's Guide) Zone Books, 1997

12. kynicism: the life as argument → excerpts

12.01 Peter Sloterdijk, Critique of Cynical Reason University of Minnesota Press, 1987
12.02 Michel Foucault, The Courage of Truth Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

13. to unsettle: cruelty, repudiation, extremity → excerpts

13.01 Pier Paolo Pasolini, Repudiation of the Trilogy of Life In Lutheran Letters, Carcanet, 1983
13.02 Antonin Artaud, The Theater of Cruelty (First Manifesto); An End to Masterpieces (in Selected Writings) Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976
13.03 James Quandt, Flesh & Blood: Sex and Violence in Recent French Cinema Artforum, February 2004

14. the diagram: clearing the clichés → excerpts

14.01 Gilles Deleuze, Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation Continuum, 2003
14.02 Gilles Deleuze, What Is the Creative Act? Lecture at FEMIS, 1987
14.03 Giorgio Agamben, Archaeology of the Work of Art (in Creation and Anarchy) Stanford University Press, 2019
14.04 Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus University of Minnesota Press, 1983

session six: the form

15. the voice and the cut: how to say it → excerpts

15.01 Guy Debord, Complete Cinematic Works: Howls for Sade (1952); In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni (1978) AK Press, 2003
15.02 Paul B. Preciado, Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2021
15.03 Rosalind Krauss, Montage October: Dialectic of the Shot Artforum, January 1973
15.04 Gilles Deleuze, Cinema 2: The Time-Image University of Minnesota Press, 1989
15.05 Harmony Korine, Interviews University Press of Mississippi, 2015
15.06 Pablo Larios, On Jargon Mousse 84, Summer 2023
15.07 Claire Bishop, Information Overload Artforum, April 2023
15.08 Arnaud Esquerre, The Spectacle of Theory (on Echo Delay Reverb, Palais de Tokyo) Texte zur Kunst online, 13 February 2026
15.09 Max L. Feldman, The Absence of Any Source: On Coldness and Gorgeousness Mousse 70, February 2020
15.10 Allan Gardner, It Looks Like Art: Institutions, Academia, and Publicly Funded Art under Late Capitalism Mousse online, 9 March 2020

16. non-linear time: fiction as research → excerpts

16.01 CCRU, Writings 1997-2003 Time Spiral Press edition, 2015

session seven: against and beyond

17. after post-internet: the irony that won → excerpts

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17.01 Alison Hugill, DIS Collective's Apathetic and Ironic Berlin Biennial Underestimates its Audience Momus, August 2016
17.02 Caroline Busta, Influencing the Void Kaleidoscope, Spring/Summer 2020
17.03 Nemesis, The Creative Recession Nemesis newsletter, 16 October 2025
17.04 Aria Dean, Experience Machine Artforum, October 2026
17.05 J. Hoberman, Capitol Records Artforum, online, 15 January 2021

18. counterpoints: the artist as institution, the artist as corporation → excerpts

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18.01 Andrea Fraser, From the Critique of Institutions to an Institution of Critique Artforum, September 2005
18.02 Dean Kissick, The Painted Protest Harper's Magazine, December 2024
18.03 Charlotte Fang / Remilia, Milady as a Total Art Online text by Remilia Corporation
18.04 Charlotte Fang / Remilia, New Net Art Online text by Remilia Corporation
18.05 angelicism01, Substack texts, 2021-2023 angelicism01 滲み出るエロス, Substack, 2021
18.06 Theodore J. Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future First published by The Washington Post and The New York Times, 19 September 1995
18.07 Bronze Age Pervert, Bronze Age Mindset Self-published, 2018
18.08 Travis Diehl, Libra Season: Institutions Are Tired, So Is Institutional Critique Spike Art Magazine, 27 May 2026
18.09 Madeline Cash, Angelicism's FILM01 Is Less Jonestown Than Snoozefest Spike Art Magazine, 2023
18.10 Simon Denny, Epic Fury: The Dark Art of Defense Tech Artforum, May 2026
18.11 Ana Teixeira Pinto, Artwashing: NRx and the Alt-Right Texte zur Kunst 106, June 2017
18.12 Ana Teixeira Pinto, Kerstin Stakemeier, A Brief Glossary of Social Sadism Texte zur Kunst 116, December 2019

19. islands: foam, zones, dark forests → excerpts

19.01 Peter Sloterdijk, Foams: Spheres Volume III, Plural Spherology Semiotext(e), 2016
19.02 Hakim Bey, T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone Autonomedia, 1991
19.03 Yancey Strickler, The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet 2019
19.04 Travis Diehl, On Art After Risk Spike 80, Summer 2024

20. to listen → excerpts

20.01 Disintegrator, episode 46, Building Doors 29 June 2026
20.02 New Models, NM Reads: Excerpts from What Is Contemporary Art For Today? (Perić, 2025) Public preview, 27 August 2025

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