Schopenhauer – The World as Will (Stanford Encyclopedia)

Macbeth – Lady Macbeth’s Major Monologues

Iris Murdoch – The Sea, The Sea (1978) – Part 1.5

Mark Fisher & Robin Mackay – PoMophobia (1997)

Deleuze & Guattari – 4.1 Language Is Informational and Communicational (A Thousand Plateaus, 1980)

John Williams – Butcher’s Crossing (1960) – Part 2, Chapter IV

Emil Cioran – The Trouble with Being Born (1973) – Chapter 7

Slavoj Žižek – The Three Fathers – The Ticklish Subject (1999)

John C. Brady – Bergson on Problems (2022)

Sigmund Freud – If Moses Was an Egyptian… 1–5 (Moses and Monotheism, 1937)

Slavoj Žižek – The Parallax View (2006) – Introduction

Iris Murdoch – The Sea, The Sea (1978) – Part 1.4

John Williams – Butcher’s Crossing (1960) – Part 2, Chapter III.2

John Williams – Butcher’s Crossing (1960) – Part 2, Chapter III.1

Gilles Deleuze – Bartleby; or, The Formula (1993)

Slavoj Žižek – The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology (1999) – Introduction

Reza Negarestani – The Dust Enforcer – Cyclonopedia (2008)

Henri Bergson – On the Pragmatism of William James: Truth and Reality (1911)

Thomas Nagel – What Does It All Mean? A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy (1987)

Colwell & Spitzer – 'Bartleby' and 'The Raven': Parallels of the Irrational (1969)

Roisin Kiberd – Chaotic, Good (Post Memes: Seizing the Memes of Production, 2019)

Emil Cioran – The Trouble with Being Born (1973) – Chapter 6

Susan Sontag – The Death of Tragedy (1963)

Kenneth Burke – from Othello [I: Iago as Katharma] (1951)

John Williams – Butcher’s Crossing (1960) – Part 2, Chapter II

Iris Murdoch – The Sea, The Sea (1978) – Part 1.3

Emil Cioran – The Trouble with Being Born (1973) – Chapter 5

Georges Bataille – Mr. Nietzsche (On Nietzsche, 1945)

Reza Negarestani – Mistmare – Cyclonopedia (2008)

John Williams – Butcher’s Crossing (1960) – Part 2, Chapter I

Inbar Shaham – The Wheel of Power in Game of Thrones (2022)

Emil Cioran – The Trouble with Being Born (1973) – Chapter 4

Nietzsche – Quotations on Christianity

Georges Bataille – Eroticism as Inner Experience (Erotism, 1957)

John Williams – Butcher’s Crossing (1960) – Part 1, Chapter V

Emil Cioran – The Trouble with Being Born (1973) – Chapter 3

Reza Negarestani – The Dead Mother of All Contagions – Cyclonopedia (2008)

John Williams – Butcher’s Crossing (1960) – Part 1, Chapter IV

Dietrich von Hildebrand – What Is Philosophy? (1960) – Introduction

Martin Heidegger – Introduction to Metaphysics (1935/1953) – Part 1.1

Emil Cioran – The Trouble with Being Born (1973) – Chapter 2

Samuel Beckett – Watt (1945) – Part 1.1

Félix Guattari – Everybody Wants to Be a Fascist (1974)

John Williams – Butcher’s Crossing (1960) – Part 1, Chapter III

Terry Eagleton – The Archaic Avant-Garde (Heathcliff and the Great Hunger, 1995)

Gilles Deleuze – The Sound Continuum [Nietzschean vs. Hegelian] (Cinema 2, 1985)

John Williams – Butcher’s Crossing (1960) – Part 1, Chapters I–II

J. R. R. Tolkien – The Istari (1954) – (Unfinished Tales, 1980)

Deleuze & Guattari – 9 Micropolitics and Segmentarity (A Thousand Plateaus, 1980) – Part 1

Frederic Jameson – On the Medieval (Afterword to The Legitimacy of the Middle Ages, 2010)

Iris Murdoch – The Sea, The Sea (1978) – Part 1.2

Martin Esslin – The Theatre of the Absurd (1960)

Reza Negarestani – An Assyrian Relic – Cyclonopedia (2008)

Byung-Chul Han – Burnout Society (The Burnout Society, 2010)

Deleuze & Guattari – 6 How Do You Make Yourself a Body Without Organs? (A Thousand Plateaus, 1980)

Michel de Certeau – Believing and Making People Believe (1980)

Susan Sontag – Notes on 'Camp' (1964)

Sylvia Townsend Warner – Lolly Willowes (1926) – Part 1.2

Byung-Chul Han – The Bartleby Case (The Burnout Society, 2010)

Byung-Chul Han – Vita Activa (The Burnout Society, 2010)