An Interview with Ryan Cartwright!
We had the opportunity to interview our friend Ryan Cartwright this afternoon! Ryan is a recent graduate from SFSU, where he earned a B.A. in Humanities, with a minor in Philosophy. He just self-published the short story The Broad, and after reading it and being blown away, we wanted to learn more about him and his ideas and background. The hour-long interview touches on many different topics, including books, art, music, politics, and even Disney’s Frozen.
Ryan was also kind enough to send us the reading list below, which is some stuff he mentions in the interview, and more. Please do yourself a favor and check out his linktree, https://linktr.ee/cool_evil, to read The Broad for yourself, and to explore some texts that inform his work:
Byung Chul Han - Psychopolitics (2017), In the Swarm (2017) Gilles Deleuze - Postscript on the Societies of Control (1992)* Short Stories by Latin American Women: The Magic and the Real (Collection from The Modern Library Classics) Walter Benjamin - The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1935)*, The Storyteller (1936)* WEB DuBois - Black Reconstruction (1935)* Boris Groys - In The Flow (2016) Patricia Highsmith - Slowly, Slowly in the Wind (1979) Dashiell Hammett - The Continental Op Collection (published 1976) Roland Barthes - The World of Wrestling (1957)* Guy Debord - Society of the Spectacle (1967)* Dorothy B Hughes - In a Lonely Place (1947) Jean Baudrillard - Simulacra and Simulation (1981)* Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Urbevilles (1892) Marx and Engles - Communist Manifesto (1848)* Angela Davis - Women Race and Class (1981) Silvia Federici - Caliban and the Witch (1998) CLR James - Black Jacobins (1938) Harold Pinter - Art Truth and Politics (video recorded lecture, 2005)
Not mentioned in the talk, but available free on my linktree and worthy of attention in the context of our conversation:
*Available on my linktree https://linktr.ee/cool_evil
Thank you Ryan!
