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Working Bibliography: Strange Loop of Being (v1.0)

Published: 2026-07-04

Working

Bibliography: Strange Loop of Being (v1.0)

(Organized alphabetically by author)

Anderson, Benedict. (1983). *Imagined

Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism*.

Verso.

Augustine of Hippo. (c. 400 CE).

Confessions.

Austin, J. L. (1962). *How to Do Things with

Words*. Oxford University Press.

Barthes, Roland. (1957/1972). Mythologies.

Hill and Wang.

Bateson, Gregory. (1972). *Steps to an Ecology

of Mind*. University of Chicago Press.

Baudrillard, Jean. (1981/1994). *Simulacra and

Simulation*. University of Michigan Press.

Becker, Ernest. (1973). *The Denial of

Death*. Free Press.

**Bender, Emily M., Gebru, Timnit, McMillan-Major, Angelina,

& Shmitchell, Shmargaret.** (2021). “On the Dangers of

Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜”. *Proceedings

of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and

Transparency*.

Berger, Peter L., & Luckmann, Thomas. (1966).

*The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of

Knowledge*. Anchor Books.

Bourdieu, Pierre. (1977). *Outline of a Theory

of Practice*. Cambridge University Press.

Chalmers, David J. (1996). *The Conscious Mind:

In Search of a Fundamental Theory*. Oxford University Press.

Clark, Andy. (1997). *Being There: Putting

Brain, Body, and World Together Again*. MIT Press. (Also

Supersizing the Mind, 2008).

Damasio, Antonio. (1994). *Descartes’ Error:

Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain*. Putnam.

Deacon, Terrence W. (1997). *The Symbolic

Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain*. W. W. Norton

& Company.

Defoe, Daniel. (1726). *An Essay Upon

Literature: or, An Enquiry into the Antiquity and Original of

Letters*.

Dennett, Daniel C. (1991). *Consciousness

Explained*. Little, Brown and Co.

Douglas, Mary. (1966). *Purity and Danger: An

Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo*. Routledge.

Dreyfus, Hubert L. (1972/1992). *What Computers

Still Can’t Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason*. MIT Press.

Durkheim, Émile. (1912). *The Elementary Forms

of the Religious Life*.

Eco, Umberto. (1976). *A Theory of

Semiotics*. Indiana University Press.

Floridi, Luciano. (2014). *The Fourth

Revolution: How the Infosphere is Reshaping Human Reality*. Oxford

University Press.

Frege, Gottlob. (1892). “On Sense and Reference”

(Über Sinn und Bedeutung).

Geertz, Clifford. (1973). *The Interpretation of

Cultures*. Basic Books.

Harari, Yuval Noah. (2015). *Sapiens: A Brief

History of Humankind*. Harper.

Heidegger, Martin. (1954/1977). *The Question

Concerning Technology*. Garland Publishing.

Hofstadter, Douglas R. (1979). *Gödel, Escher,

Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid*. Basic Books.

Kahneman, Daniel. (2011). *Thinking, Fast and

Slow*. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. (Also work with Tversky).

Korzybski, Alfred. (1933). *Science and Sanity:

An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General

Semantics*.

Kripke, Saul A. (1980). *Naming and

Necessity*. Harvard University Press.

Kuhn, Thomas S. (1962). *The Structure of

Scientific Revolutions*. University of Chicago Press.

Lakoff, George, & Johnson, Mark. (1980).

Metaphors We Live By. University of Chicago Press.

Langer, Susanne K. (1942). *Philosophy in a New

Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art*. Harvard

University Press.

Maturana, Humberto R., & Varela, Francisco J.

(1980). *Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the

Living*. D. Reidel.

McLuhan, Marshall. (1962). *The Gutenberg

Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man*. University of Toronto

Press.

Mill, John Stuart. (1843). *A System of Logic,

Ratiocinative and Inductive*.

Ong, Walter J. (1982). *Orality and Literacy:

The Technologizing of the Word*. Methuen.

Peirce, Charles Sanders. (Collected Papers, various

dates).

Pinker, Steven. (1994). *The Language Instinct:

How the Mind Creates Language*. William Morrow.

Postman, Neil. (1992). *Technopoly: The

Surrender of Culture to Technology*. Vintage Books.

Ricœur, Paul. (1984-1988). *Time and

Narrative (3 vols.). University of Chicago Press. (Also Oneself

as Another*, 1992).

Saussure, Ferdinand de. (1916). *Course in

General Linguistics (Cours de linguistique générale*).

Searle, John R. (1969). *Speech Acts: An Essay

in the Philosophy of Language*. Cambridge University Press.

Searle, John R. (1980). “Minds, Brains, and

Programs”. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

Searle, John R. (1995). *The Construction of

Social Reality*. Free Press.

Tomasello, Michael. (2008). *Origins of Human

Communication*. MIT Press.

Turner, Victor. (1969). *The Ritual Process:

Structure and Anti-Structure*. Aldine Publishing.

Vygotsky, Lev S. (1934/1962). *Thought and

Language*. MIT Press.

Wiener, Norbert. (1948). *Cybernetics: Or

Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine*. MIT

Press.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig. (1953). *Philosophical

Investigations*. Blackwell.