semeurge: source materials
i have every intent of providing a more thorough record of my researches and readings at a future date. for now, however, please enjoy the following background / peripherally-related-but-nonetheless-interesting readings. i do not claim categorical knowledge of, nor expertise in, any of these works or authors–i only mean to give them the credit they are due. a special thanks to nana last, who introduced me to many of the authors that have been a formative influence on this work. they are listed in no particular order.
VISUAL INFLUENCES
- yoshiyuki sadamoto
- emmanuel malin
- enrico miralles
- charles burns
- käthe kollwitz
- eddie campbell
- josé antonio muñoz
- david hockney
- katsuhiro otomo
- todd mcfarlane
- will eisner
- albrecht durer
- dave mckean
- banksy
- jamie hewlett
- frank miller
- enki bilal
- tardi
- justin sweet
- gerhard
SIGNS + SEMIOTICS
- charles sanders peirce
- giuseppe peano
- ferdinand de saussure
- émile benveniste
- roland barthes
- jacques derrida
- jean baudrillard
- gottfried leibniz
- roman jakobson
- umberto eco
- giuseppe peano
PHENOMENOLOGY
- roscellinus
- lewis mumford
- edmund husserl
- plutarch
- maurice merleau-ponty
- rosalind krauss
THOUGHTS + DREAMS
- sigmund freud
- jacques lacan
- rosalind krauss
- erich fromm
WRITING INFLUENCES
- alison bechdel
- stendhal
- hideaki anno
- tim o’brien
- cormac mccarthy
- susanna clarke
- george r.r. martin
- alan moore
- henry miller
- jorge luis borges
- tim rutili
- t.s. eliot
- j.d. salinger
- elliott smith
- e.m. forster
- art spiegelman
- emile zola
- wallace stevens
- adrian utley
- david zindell
- bill watterson
THEOLOGY, OCCULTISM
- thomas aquinas
- giordiano bruno
- heinrich cornelius agrippa
- sylvester mazzolini di prierio
- pythagoras
- constantine
- euripides
- aristotle
- zuangzhi
- gilles de rais
- johann weyer
- the munich manual
- psuemonarchia daemonium
- helena petrovna blavatsky
- clavis solomonis
- abraham of the worms
- robert burton
- dante alighieri
- tacitus