Infrared recommended readings

This is a placeholder page until we dig up sources for readings recommended by Infrared.

• Talonsight's channel has a clip of Haz's official reading recommendations
• A curated text-form reading list has allegedly been compiled on Discord before

List of Recommended Books Specific for Infrared Vision:

• The Communist Postscript - by Boris Groys
• Less Than Nothing - by Slavoj Zizek
• Foundation of Geopolitics - by Alexander Dugin
• An American Utopia: Dual Power and the Universal Army - by Fredric Jameson (edited by Zizek)
• Theory of the Partisan - by Carl Schmitt
• The Concept of the Political - by Carl Schmitt
• Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phenomenology of Spirit - By Alexander Kojève

Texts Infrared Vision:

• Repeating Lenin - by Slavoj Zizek

Infrared Vision on History and Economic History:

• Infrared has recommended the works of Grover Furr (Soviet revisionism)
• The Unknown Cultural Revolution - by Dongping Han
• Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler - By Antony Sutton
• A Peoples History of the United States - by Howard Zinn
• The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome - by Michael Parenti
• Super Imperialism: The Origin and Fundamentals of U.S. World Dominance - by Michael Hudson
• The Global Minotaur - by Yanis Varoufakis
• +Essential works by Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin

Recommended Neccessities for the Understanding of Western Philosophy

• Plato: Theaetetus, The Republic
• Aristotle: Politics, Nicomachean Ethics, Metaphysics, On the Soul, Organon
• Bacon: Novum Organum
• Hobbes: Leviathan
• Descartes: Selected Philosophical Writings - by John Cottingham
• Spinoza: On the Improvement of Understanding, Ethics
• Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
• Leibniz: New Essays on Human Understanding
• Hume: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
• Kant: Basic Writings of Kant - by Allen W. Wood
• Hegel: The Hegel Reader - by Stephen Houlgate
• Husserl: The Essential Husserl - by Donn Welton
• Heidegger: Being and Time

Marxism: Obligatory Philosophy

• Engels - Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
• Marx - Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
• Marx and Engels - The German Ideology
• Engels - Anti-Dühring
• Engels - The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
• Engels - Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy
• Lenin - Materialism and Empirio-criticism
• Stalin - Dialectical and Historical Materialism
• Mao - On Practice
• Mao - On Contradiction
• Mao - Oppose Book Worship
• Kim Jong-il - On the Juche Idea

TO BE ADDED

• French School: Deleuze, Lacan, Bataille, Baudrillard, Lyotard, Badiou
• Accelerationists: Nick Land, Sadie Plant, Reza Negarestsni, Ray Brassier
• Speculative Realists: Timothy Morton, Graham Harman
• Other: Bruno Latour, Yuk Hui, Paul Cockshott