It is November 1st, 2006, and this is the reading list I am working on for my comprehensive exam sometime early next year (see below). Currently, I am trying to organize it into three or four usefull sections which ideally will reflect the main themes I am interested in:
- the body and its interrelations with technology
- writing as a primary technology (re)structuring embodiment and vice versa
- sources that give ‘body’ and ‘writing’ more historical and theoretical depth

I am also trying to finish reading everything on the list...

• Altman, Janet Gurkin. 1982. Epistolarity: approaches to a form. Columbus: Ohio State University Press.
• Armstrong, Tim. 1998. Modernism, technology, and the body: a cultural history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Bolter, Jay David. 1991. Writing space: the computer, hypertext, and the history of writing. 1st ed. Hillsdale, NJ: L. Erlbaum.
• Bolter, Jay David, and Richard Grusin. 1999. Remediation: Understanding New Media. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
• Borck, Cornelius, and Armin Schaefer, eds. 2005. Psychographien. Zuerich: diaphanes.
• Burkitt, Ian. 1999. Bodies of Thought: Embodiment, Identity and Modernity. London: Sage Publications.
• Carey, James W. 1989. Communication as Culture: essays on media and society, Media and Popular Culture. New York: Routledge.
• Decker, William Merrill. 1998. Epistolary practices: letter writing in America before telecommunications. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
• Deleuze, Gilles. 1990. The Logic of Sense [Logique du sens]. Translated by M. Lester. New York: Columbia University Press. Original edition, 1969.
• Derrida, Jacques. 1982. Signature Event Context. In Margins of philosophy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Original edition, Marges de la philosophie.
• ———. 1997. Of Grammatology. Translated by G. C. Spivak. corrected ed. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. Original edition, 1967.
• Elias, Norbert. 1978. The civilizing process. Translated by E. Jephcott. 2 vols. New York: Urizen Books. Original edition, Über den Prozess der Zivilisation.
• ———. 1991. The society of individuals. Translated by E. Jephcott. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. Original edition, Gesellschaft der Individuen.
• Feenberg, Andrew. 1991. Critical Theory of Technology. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Foucault, Michel. 1988. Technologies of the Self; The Political Technology of Individuals. In Technologies of the Self: a seminar with Michel Foucault, edited by L. H. Martin, Huck Gutman, Patrick H. Hutton. Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press.
• ———. 2006. The hermeneutics of the subject: lectures at the Collège de France, 1981-82. Translated by G. Burchell: Picador. Original edition, Herméneutique du sujet.
• Fraenkel, Béatrice. 1992. La signature, genèse d’un signe. Paris: Gallimard.
• Freud, Sigmund. 1958. A Note upon the 'Mystic Writing-Pad'. In The Standard Edition of the Complete Works of Sigmund Freud. London: Hogarth Press. Original edition, 1925.
• Ginzburg, Carlo. 1983. Clues: Morelli, Freud, and Sherlock Holmes. In The Sign of Three: Dupin, Holmes, Peirce, edited by U. Eco and T. A. Sebeok. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
• Gitelman, Lisa. 1999. Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines: Representing Technology in the Edison Era. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press.
• Goldberg, Jonathan. 1990. Writing matter: from the hands of the English Renaissance. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
• Grusin, Richard. 2004. Premediation. Criticism: a quarterly for literature and the arts 46 (1):17-39.
• Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich, and K. Ludwig Pfeiffer, eds. 1994. Materialities of Communication, Writing Science. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press.
• Hansen, Mark. 2000. Embodying Technesis: Technology Beyond Writing, Studies in Literature and Science. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
• ———. 2006. Bodies in Code: Interfaces with Digital Media. London: Routledge.
• Hayles, N. Katherine. 2002. Writing Machines. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
• Ihde, Don. 2002. Bodies in Technology. Edited by N. K. Hayles, M. Poster and S. Weber. Vol. 5, Electronic Mediations. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
• Johnson, Mark. 1987. The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Katz, James Everett, and Mark A. Aarhus, eds. 2002. Perpetual contact: mobile communication, private talk, public performance. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Kittler, Friedrich A. 1990. Discourse networks 1800/1900. Translated by M. Metteer, with Chris Cullens. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. Original edition, Aufschreibesysteme 1800/1900.
• ———. 1999. Gramophone, film, typewriter. Translated by G. Winthrop-Young and M. Wutz, Writing Science. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
• Lakoff, George, and Mark Johnson. 1980. Metaphors We Live By. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Lenoir, Timothy, ed. 1998. Inscribing science: scientific texts and the materiality of communication, Writing Science. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press.
• Leroi-Gourhan, André. 1993. Gesture and Speech. Translated by A. Bostock Berger. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. Original edition, Le geste et la parole, 1964.
• Massumi, Brian. 2002. Parables for the Virtual: movement, affect, sensation. Durham: Duke University Press.
• Mauss, Marcel. 1973. Techniques of the body. Economy & Society 2 (1):70-88.
• Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. 2003. Phenomenology of Perception. Translated by C. Smith. London: Routledge. Original edition, 1945.
• Meyer-Drawe, Kaete. 1996. Menschen im Spiegel ihrer Maschinen, Uebergaenge. Muenchen: Wilhelm Fink Verlag.
• Neef, Sonja, and Jose Van Dijck, eds. 2005. Sign here! handwriting in the age of new media. Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press.
• Nietzsche, Friedrich. 1988. Über Wahrheit und Lüge im außermoralischen Sinne. In Sämtliche Werke - kritische Studienausgabe, edited by G. Colli and M. Monitari. Muenchen: DTV. Original edition, 1873.
• Ong, Walter J. 1982. Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the World. London: Routledge.
• Otis, Laura. 2001. Networking: Communicating with Bodies and Machines in the Nineteenth Century. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
• Peirce, Charles Sanders. 1991. Peirce on signs: writings on semiotic. Edited by J. Hoopes. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
• Peters, John Durham. 1999. Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Reeves, Byron, Clifford Nass. 1996. The media equation: how people treat computers, television, and new media like real people and places. New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Rotman, Brian. 2002. The Alphabetic Body. parallax 8 (1):92-104.
• ———. 2002. Corporeal or Gesturo-haptic Writing. Configurations 10 (3):423-438.
• Ryan, Marie-Laure. 2001. Narrative as Virtual Reality: Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media, Parallax: re-visions of culture and society. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Sconce, Jeffrey. 2000. Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television. Edited by L. Spigel, Console-ing Passions. Durham: Duke University Press.
• Shilling, Chris. 2005. The Body in Culture, Technology and Society. Edited by M. Featherstone, Theory, Culture & Society. London: Sage Publications.
• Siegert, Bernhard. 1999. Relays: Literature as an Epoch of the Postal System. Translated by K. Repp. Edited by T. Lenoir and H. U. Gumbrecht, Writing Science. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. Original edition, Relais: Geschicke der Literatur als Epoche der Post, 1751-1913.
• Thornton, Tamara Plakins. 1996. Handwriting in America: a cultural history. New Haven: Yale University Press.
• Turner, Bryan S. 2001. The Body and Society: explorations in social theory. 2nd ed. London: Sage Publications.
• Vallega-Neu, Daniela. 2005. The Bodily Dimension in Thinking. Edited by D. J. Schmidt, SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy. Albany: State University of New York Press.