• Bennett, Jane. Vibrant Matter. Duke University Press, 2010.
• Baylee, Brits; Gibson, Prudence; Ireland, Amy, eds. Aesthetics After Finitude. MIT Press, 2014.
• Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome. Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman. University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
• Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome ed. Prismatic Ecology: Ecotheory Beyond Green. University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
• Debaise, Didier. Nature as Event: The Lure of the Possible. Translated by Michael Halewood. Duke University Press, 2017.
• Flusser, Willem; and Bec, Lois. Vampyroteuthis Infernalis, A Treatise, with a Report by the Institut Scientifique de Recherche Paranaturaliste. Translated by Valentine A Pakis. University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
• Galloway, Alexander. Laruelle: Against the Digital. University of Minnesota Press, 2014.
• Gearhart, Dakota. Life Touching Life. Animated video podcast, 2023.
• Grusin, Richard, ed. The Nonhuman Turn. University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
• Grusin, Richard, ed. Anthropocene Feminism. University of Minnesota Pres, 2017.
• Haraway, Donna. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press, 2016.
• Haraway, Donna. The Companion Species Manifesto, Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness University of Chicago Press, 2003.
• Holmes, Brian et al. The Anthropocene River. 2022.
• Kahn, Douglas. Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts. MIT Press, 2001.
• Kauffman, Stuart A. Humanity in a Creative Universe. Oxford University Press, 2016.
• Kirksey, Eben. Emergent Ecologies. Duke University Press, 2015.
• Kohn, Edoardo. How Forests Think. Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human. University of California Press, 2013.
• Marder, Michael. Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life. Columbia University Press, 2013.
• Massumi, Brian. What Animals Teach Us About Politics. Duke University Press, 2014.
• Maturana, Humberto R. and Francisco J. Varela. Autopoiesis and Cognition: Realization of the Living. Reidel Publishing, 1972.
• Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. The Visible and Invisible Northwestern University Press, 1968.
• Morton, Timothy. All Art is Ecological. Penguin Classics, 2021.
• Latour, Bruno. Reassembling the Social. Oxford University Press, 2005.
• Lazslo, Fröydi, ed. The Anthopocene Laboratory. 284 Publishers, 2023.
• Ramiriez, Mario-Teodoro. Aesthetical Ontology, Ontological Aesthetics: Retethinking Art and Beauty through Speculative Realism.
• Shaviro, Steven. Discognition. Repeater Books, 2015.
• Shaviro, Steven. The Universe of Things. University of Minnesota Press, 2014.
• Serres, Michael. The Parasite. Translated by Lawrence R. Schehr. University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
• Stengers, Isabelle. “The Intrusion of Gaia (The Urgency to Think and Feel)”. Translated by Andrew Goffey. Modes of Existence, 2015.
• Stengers, Isabelle. Making Sense in Common: A Reading of Whitehead in Times of Collapse.Translated by Thomas Lamarre. University of Minnesota Press, 2023.
• Tsing, Anna. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton University Press, 2015.
• Tsing, Anna; Swanson, Heather; Gan, Elaine; and Bubandt, Nils. Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene. University of Minnesota Press, 2017.
• Von Uexküll, Jakob. A Foray in the Worlds of Animals and Humans: with a Theory of Meaning. Translated by Joseph D. O’Neil. University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
• Whitehead, Alfred North. The Concept of Nature. Ann Arbor Books, 1957.
• Wulia, Tintin. “The International Citizen.” An Interview by Tempestt Hazel. 60 Inches from Center. November 2016.

*course reading selections will be gleaned from this bibliography.