MUST READ LIST
Yuval Noah Harari, Mustafa Suleyman, Daron Acemoğlu, Yanis Varoufakis, and Kojin Karatani must read the books on the list I propose below...
Why? Because Michel Foucault, once famously said,
“If I had been familiar with the Frankfurt School [Adorno, Horkheimer, Benjamin, and others], I would not have said a number of stupid things that I did say, and I would have avoided many of the detours that I made while trying to pursue my own humble path—when, meanwhile, avenues had been opened up by the Frankfurt School.”
This was after his visit to support Khomeini of Iran. Interview conducted by Gerard Raulet in 1983 and published as "Structuralism and Post-Structuralism: An Interview with Michele Foucault," in Telos 55 (Spring 1983), 7, 95-217, reproduced in Kritzman (1990: 17–47).
Now is the
reading time for those who make new "fashionable nonsense." They
can read all the books on the list, but if they had read only the ones under
their names, most probably they might not have written what they had written:
Yuval Noah Harari must read:
George Gerbner, Against the Mainstream
https://www.amazon.com/Against-Mainstream-Selected-Gerbner-Culture/dp/0820441635
Harold Innis, Communication and Empire
https://www.amazon.com/Empire-Communications-Voyageur-Classics-Harold/dp/1550026623
Daron Acemoğlu must read:
Arif Dirlik, Postcolonial Aura
https://www.amazon.com/Postcolonial-Aura-Criticism-Global-Capitalism-ebook/dp/B079Z9J3TY
Kojin Karatani, Isonomia-Origins of Philosophy
https://www.amazon.com/Isonomia-Origins-Philosophy-Kojin-Karatani/dp/0822369133
Yanis Varoufakis must read:
Marshall McLuhan, Global Village-Transformations in World Life and Media in the 21st Century
https://www.amazon.com/Global-Village-Transformations-Century-Communication/dp/0195079108
Kojin Karatani must read:
Veysel Batmaz, Digitalism vs. Capitalism
https://www.amazon.com/Digitalism-vs-Capitalism-Ecumenical-Dimensions/dp/B0D9SJ3XSL
Mustafa Suleyman must read all…