Louis Althusser (from "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" 1970)
Aristotle (from Poetics c. 335 BCE)
Dalida Maria Benfield ("Decolonizing the Digital/Digital Decolonization" 2009)
Walter Benjamin ("The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility" 1936)
Rosi Braidotti ("Animals, Anomalies, and Inorganic Others" 2009)
Cleanth Brooks (from The Well Wrought Urn 1947)
Guillaume de Lorris & Jean de Meun (from The Roman de la Rose c. 1275)
Christine de Pizan ("Christine’s Reaction to Jean de Montreuil’s Treatise on the Roman de la Rose" 1401?)
Ferdinand de Saussure (from Course in General Linguistics 1916)
Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari (from "Introduction: Rhizome" 1976)
Jacques Derrida (from Of Grammatology 1967)
William Empson (from Seven Types of Ambiguity 1930)
Frantz Fanon ("The Wretched of the Earth: from On National Culture" 1959)
Michel Foucault (from The History of Sexuality, Volume 1 1976)
Sigmund Freud ("Beyond the Pleasure Principle" 1920)
Saundra Gilbert and Susan Gubar (from The Madwoman in the Attic 1979)
Antonio Gramsci ("The Formation of Intellectuals" c. 1929-1935)
Donna Haraway (from A Cyborg Manifesto 1984)
bell hooks ("Postmodern Blackness" 1990)
Horace (Ars Poetica c. 19 BCE)
Julia Kristeva (from Revolution in Poetic Language 1984)
Jacques Lacan (“The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience” 1949; "The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious")
Rosa Luxemburg ("The Problem of Dictatorship" 1918)
Maimonides (The Guide for the Perplexed c. 1190)
Karl Marx (from Capital, Volume I 1867; "Theses on Fuerbach" 1845)
Leslie McCall ("The Complexity of Intersectionality" 2005)
Franco Moretti (from Maps, Graphs, and Trees 2005)
Laura Mulvey (from Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema 1975)
Ngugi, Liyong, and Owuor-Anyumba ("On the Abolition of the English Department" 1972)
Plato (from Republic c. 380 BCE)
Edward Said (from Orientalism 1978)
Baruch Spinoza, Theological-Political Treatise
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ("Can the Subaltern Speak?" 1985)
Cary Wolfe ("Human, All Too Human" 2009)
Virginia Woolf ("A Room of One's Own" 1929)
John Unsworth (“What Is Humanities Computing, and What Is It Not” 2002)
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (from Epistemology of the Closet 1990)