Mon 10 Jan 2011
Here is a short list of books available for free download online that I’ve discovered over the past month (along with a few oldies). Just type in “pdf” after a book you are looking for and there are fair, if not great, chances you’ll find it. Not that I’m trying to kill the publishing industry… I’m just finding it quite easy to read and annotate chunky texts like this on my tablet (my penmanship sucks).
There are several titles at re.press that are available for free download, including a volume of Hegel’s introductions. I’d be interested in compiling a list of publishers that make most or all of their material available online. Please let me know!
- Marcus Boon, In Praise of Copying
- Paul Virilio, The Information Bomb
- Lev Manovich, Software Takes Command
- Quentin Meillassoux, After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency
- Graham Harman, The Prince of Networks: Bruno Latour and Metaphysics
- Florian Cramer, Words Made Flesh: Code, Culture, Imagination
- Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern
- Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri, Empire
- Lawrence Lessig, The Future of Ideas
- Levi Bryant, Nick Srnicek & Graham Harman (editors), The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism
- Robert Duncan, The H.D. Book
- Andrew Benjamin and Charles Rice (eds.), Walter Benjamin and the Architecture of Modernity