Frequently Cited, Rarely Read

Ritual Reference · Delegated Authority

These texts circulate as shorthand.
They are invoked to signal position, not to sustain argument.

Antonio Gramsci — Prison Notebooks
Karl Polanyi — The Great Transformation
Frantz Fanon — Black Skin, White Masks
Pierre Bourdieu — Distinction
Louis Althusser — Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses
Judith Butler — Gender Trouble
Edward Said — Culture and Imperialism
Bruno Latour — Reassembling the Social