What to Read After Techniques of the observer
Readers who loved Techniques of the observer by Jonathan Crary keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Techniques of the observer is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Techniques of the observer
The dialectics of seeing
Performance Theory (Routledgeclassics)
Objectivity
Downcast Eyes
Picture theory
The Necessity of Art
The success and failure of Picasso
The return of the real
Five faces of modernity
The Painting of Modern Life
Chromophobia (FOCI)
Theories and documents of contemporary art
Towards a philosophy of photography
Relational aesthetics
24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
Non-places
Homo sacer
The sublime object of ideology
Simulacra and Simulation
The order of things
Illuminations
On Photography
The poetics of space
Camera Lucida