Based on some of Robin's comments, here's a first stab at a list.
Numbers represent the week.
1. Lacan- “Mirror Stage”, Butler- Gender Trouble
2. Butler- Gender Trouble, Lacan- something else (I can make a suggestion after I unpack my books and can look at the Butler sections on him and then his own stuff) or maybe some Kristeva would be better
3. Hegel- Philosophy of History
4. Hegel- Philosophy of History
5. Hayles- How We Became Posthuman, Virilio- The Information Bomb
6. Hayles- How We Became Posthuman, Virilio- The Information Bomb
7. Spivak- Critique of Postcolonial Reason
8. Spivak- Critique of Postcolonial Reason
9. Dr. Iyengar’s choice or Derrida- selections from The Postcard and Writing and Difference
10. Dr. Iyengar’s choice or Derrida- selections from The Postcard and Writing and Difference

Ryan's Reading Suggestions

I'm going to list them chronologically and then talk at the end about what I feel comfortable about though I wouldn't mind reading again or more of or whatever.

1. Heraclitus: Fragments because we might as well start at the beginning and with the pre-socratic that has the most to say to both contemporary understandings of physics and to medieval mysticism.

2. Aristotle: Physics and Metaphysics because of the importance for scholasticism in general and the wycliffite controversy in particular.

3. St. Augustine: City of God because it's huge and hugely important for political theory, theology, and philosophy generally (esp. postmodern)

4. William Ockham: Philosophical Writings and John Duns Scotus: Philosophical Writings because it would be nice to read around in the nominalist/scholastic debate to which jameson refers at several points (and many other thinkers besides) and i group them together because i think they should be considered in dialogue

5. Spinoza: Ethics because he is greatly respected by Nietzsche and Deleuze and more read about than read

6. Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract or The Confessions because if one is serious about Marxism it's important to deal with a compeating and at moments complimentary notion of political and social organization and the confessions are next in line after augustine (they are long though and not as important as the social contract).

7. Immanuel Kant: Critique of Pure Reason because it's huge and important and changed the way philosophy was practiced and like it or not we are living in its shadow

8. G. W. F. Hegel: Philosophy of History because its easier than the phenomenology of spirit and because its fascinating and important

9. J. L. Austin: How to Do Things with Words and Sense and Sensebilia because speech act theory is very hot right now and very important to different things in which i'm interested, such as eucharistic theology and marriage rights and government formation

10. Jacques Derrida: The Margins of Philosophy or Writing and Difference because I haven't read enough of the man and it's always beneficial to do so

11. Hans Blumenberg: The Legitimacy of the Modern Age because its totalizing and not read much in america yet, but very important (and that's one to grow on)


I feel fine with Freud and Lacan (though there is a new complete version of Ecrits out that I would love to get into) and Zizek, but I can always read these three. Marx I'm cool with, though reading a lot more of Capital or the Grundrisse wouldn't hurt me. Most other enlightenment thinkers, aside from the one's listed I'm pretty good with and I don't think I ever want to read Locke again, though I wouldn't mind Hobbes. Most queer theory I'm fine with, though reading the Epistemology of the Closet from start to finish wouldn't hurt. With Nietzsche or Foucault I'm all set, though I can always read them (again and again). I could stand to read more postcolonial stuff- Spivak or Chakrabarthy. On Plato I'm good and most other medieval philosophy (apart from what's listed) though if I have to read more neo-platonic stuff, I'd be totally happy with that.

Gabriel's Reading Suggestions

I've narrowed my list down to a few authors I'd like to read that I feel are either a./ woefully underrepresented due to any number of reasons (previously bad translations, my own ignorance, just not loved by the current intellectual trends contigent) or b./ seriously sexy.

• Paul Virilio:

I think that Virilio is less of a diva than Baudrillard, more comprehensive than McLuhan, and more earthily post-apocolypic mutanty than Deleuze and Guattari. I think his theoretical project--inclusive of war, technology, accidents, the body, new media, urbanity—is extraordinarily erudite and innovative. Plus, his grounding in phenomenology and the way in which it informs ideas about the speed at which cultural production is taking place is incredibly fascinating. The three books that have the best translations available and interest me:

==The Aesthetics of Disappearance

==The Information Bomb

==Negative Horizon: An Essay in Dromoscopy

• Felix Guatarri

==Soft Subversions

I love D & G. However, I feel like this volume is really a great conversation between the two poles that are represented by both of your reading lists. If Ryan's list is classical, foundational (which is great) and Robin's has some more seminal disruptive works (I salute you), then I think SS asks a lot of provocative questions about the chasm between-- about what it means to "become woman" after the advent and proliferation of capitalism, what micropolitics can do for us, and how you actually work in the interstitial spaces as opposed to remain mired—amniotic, cyclical—in its effluvia.

• Derrida

I would love, like Ryan, to read some Derrida. I think he's extraordinary and I would love to read any number of his books (though I tend to prefer his more experimental work). So many scholars assume they know Derrida just from being brushed with po-mo, decon fairy dust, but reading is really worth it. I love:

==The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond –this one is really amazing—Ulmer's book on Grammatology is a good companion, too. I think that it really expands the vision of what scholarship can involve.

==Glas (so intriguing—plus, he really deals with Hegel deeply, imaginatively—something that the two of you would find essential, I think).

==Paper Machine: Derrida's post-human, machinist side.

• Claude Levi Strauss:

==The Raw and the Cooked

Confession: I've never read this. Though I think that, once, at a party full of post-doc philosophy students at Princeton, I did lie about reading it. So many theorists cite it, I feel my cheeks rouge and turn hot at my own ignorance.

Gabriel