Starting 2021 after the Fall Semester, I have to/want to start reading some more of the books on my PhD Exam Reading List. So I created a reading syllabus out of some of the books I’ll be reading/having to read under the topic of “The Anti-Fashion(ing) of Desire.” The majority of the reading is psychoanalytic in nature, but it would be great to get the chance to read these books with some people interested in Fashion as well as Theory. Perhaps, we can teach each other things about both as well as make friends in the midst of this post-apocalyptic nightmare we call reality. Also! If not, I have to read these books anyway so they are on the list for that reason. The order is of an order that makes sense to me.
PS. I may add things to this reading list leading up to 2021 that might make it more … how do you say? … “Fashionable” as I find material that might be relevant.
The Anti-Fashion(ing) of Desire: Readings I
Week 1.
Alain Badiou, Lacan: Anti-philosophy
Week 2.
Jacques Lacan, Ecrits
Week 3.
Jacques Derrida, Resistances of Psychoanalysis
Week 4.
Jacques Derrida, Psyche
Week 5.
Kaja Silverman, The Subject of Semiotics
Week 6.
Luce Irigaray, The Sex Which Is Not One
Week 7.
Gilles Deleuze, Masochism
Week 8.
Julia Kristeva, The Powers of Horror
Week 9.
Judith Butler, The Psychic Life of Power
Week 10.
Bruce Fink, Against Understanding
The Anti-Fashion(ing) of Desire: Readings II
Week 1.
Rei Terada, Feeling in Theory
Week 2.
Catherine Malabou and Adrian Johnson, Self and Emotional Life: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience
Week 3.
Michel Henry, Genealogy of Psychoanalysis
Week 4.
Wilheim Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism
Week 5.
Felix Guattari, The Machinic Unconscious
Week 6.
Felix Guattari, Schizoanalytic Cartographies
Week 7.
Kelly Oliver, The Colonization of Psychic Space
Week 8.
Nigel Gibson, Fanon, Psychiatry and Politics
Week 9.
Jared Sexton, Amalgamation Schemes
Week 10.
David Marriott, Whither Fanon
The Anti-Fashioning of Desire: Readings III
Week 1.
Jean Laplanche, The Language of Psychoanalysis
Week 2.
Melanie Klein, The Psychoanalysis of Children
Week 3.
Alenka Zupancic, What is Sex?
Week 4.
Jean Francois-Lyotard, Libidinal Economy
Week 5.
Slavoj Zizek, The Plague of Fantasies
Week 6.
Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization
Week 7.
Felix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus
Week 8.
Ranjana Khanna, Dark Continents
Week 9.
Michelle Stephens, Skin Acts
Week 10.
Alison Bancroft, Fashion and Psychoanalysis
Mumble Theory 
hi there, have you seen selamawit terrefe’s work? here, just in the (unlikely case): https://liberalarts.tulane.edu/departments/english/people/selamawit-terrefe
greets sabine
ps: will also think about fashion and desire
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Yes! Most of the titles here are books that I wanted to read. But “Speaking the Hieroglyph” is crucial to all of my work and truly changed my life after reading it.
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and what about ‘ways of seeing’? (berger’s old text) it does address desire in the context of fashion photography…
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