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Bibliography — The Possible Book

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Bibliography of The Third Possibility

BOLLAS, Christopher. The Shadow of the Object: Psychoanalysis of the Unthought Known. London: Routledge, 2018. First published 1987. Pp. 189–193.

JUNG, C. G. The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche. Collected Works, vol. 8. 2nd ed. Translated by R. F. C. Hull. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1969. Relevant passages: “On Psychic Energy,” §§18–24 and §§66–70; §§416–417; §555; and “A Review of the Complex Theory.”

MARONI, Amnéris. Traces: Epiphanies and Individuations. São Paulo: Intermeios, 2020. Relevant passages: “Suddenly” and the later discussions of witnessing, regression, inverse ontogenesis, and the associated milieu.

MARTY, Emilia. “Simondon, un espace à venir.” Multitudes 18 (2004): 83–90. Relevant passage: p. 88. English quotation translated by the author.

SIMONDON, Gilbert. L’individuation à la lumière des notions de forme et d’information. Grenoble: Éditions Jérôme Millon, 2013. Relevant passages: pp. 25–30, 251, and 557–558. English quotations translated by the author.

STENGERS, Isabelle. “Reclaiming Animism.” e-flux journal, no. 36 (July 2012): 1–10. https://www.e-flux.com/journal/36/61245/reclaiming-animism/.

References — page 168

Kashiwara & Schapira, Categories and Sheaves (2006), on ind-objects and the completion Ind(C).

Adámek & Rosický, Locally Presentable and Accessible Categories (1994), on filtered colimits.

Grothendieck & Verdier, SGA 4, for the original ind-object construction.

Source context: The weights pi are those of the dagger-compact handshake module (Cramer; Kastner).

References — page 174

Abramsky & Coecke, A categorical semantics of quantum protocols (2004).

Selinger, Dagger compact closed categories and completely positive maps (2007).

Coecke & Kissinger, Picturing Quantum Processes (2017).

Coecke & Lal, Time-asymmetry of probabilities versus relativistic causal structure (2013).

Cramer, The transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics (1986).

Kastner, The Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics: The Reality of Possibility (2013).

Kastner, The Relativistic Transactional Interpretation and the Quantum Direct-Action Theory (2021a).

Kastner, The Relativistic Transactional Interpretation and Spacetime Emergence (2021b).

References — page 181

Lack & Sobociński, Adhesive categories (2004).

Lack & Sobociński, Adhesive and quasiadhesive categories (2005).

Baez & Courser, Structured cospans (2020).

Fong, The Algebra of Open and Interconnected Systems (2016), on decorated cospans.

Mac Lane & Moerdijk, Sheaves in Geometry and Logic (1992), on descent and gluing.

Leibniz, on compossibility (correspondence and the Theodicy).

References — page 185

Lawvere, Diagonal arguments and cartesian closed categories (1969).

Yanofsky, A universal approach to self-referential paradoxes, incompleteness and fixed points (2003), unifying Cantor, Gödel, Tarski and Turing through Lawvere.

Appendix – Sources & Images

Cover and title page image: bigtouch (1996) by Gregory Colbert; 182 × 90 cm ink on custom-size Japanese handmade paper (washi) finished by hand with wax layers. 2026 © Gregory Colbert – all rights reserved – Photo of original artwork by C. Bruck.

Front matter– Barbara Kruger, No Comment exhibition Aarhus ARoS 2024–2025; (photo by C. Bruck)

P. 3 – Dalí Atomicus by Philippe Halsman – This image is available from the United States Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ppmsca.09633. Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=59171364

P. 10 – Salvador Dalí, Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second before Awakening, 1944 Fundación Gala-Salvador Dalí / VEGAP, Madrid

P. 12 – Alice Fulton: Excerpted from Karen Barad: Meeting the Universe Halfway quoting in full Alice Fulton, “Cascade Experiment” from Powers of Congress.

P. 13 – Joseph Cornell (circa 1945) The Hotel Eden https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Hotel_Eden_by_Joseph_Cornell_02.jpg

P. 19 – Edward Steichen 1901–1902 Rodin Le Penseur double exposure; https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edward_Steichen_-_Rodin--Le_Penseur__Google_Art_Project.jpg, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

P. 22 – Christian Bruck – woodcut by Lucas Cranach the Younger, 1549. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

P. 24 – Chancellor Christian Brück – painting by Lucas Cranach the Younger, 1555. Stiftung Schloss Friedenstein Gotha.

P. 27 – Image “Heraklit beim Erfinden des Wackelkontakts” (Heraclitus inventing the loose connection) 1989. Used with permission. Felt-tip pen, pencil, watercolor, gouache and collage on white paper 42 × 59.3 cm; Museum Tinguely, Basel, Donation Niki de Saint Phalle, Photo © Museum Tinguely, Basel; photo: Christian Baur; © 2026 Jean Tinguely – All rights reserved – Copyright licenses can be obtained through www.luxorr.lu.

P. 28 – Tinguely, Jean. 2022. Jean Tinguely. Paris: ADAGP. Back cover. (Translation: C. Bruck)

Source context: photo credit: C. Bruck, January 2026 at the Grand Palais, Paris, at the exhibition “Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely, Pontus Hulten”

P. 31 – Cartoon Reality TV: unknown

P. 40 – Zō-onna Noh mask, Edo period, 18th century, wood with polychromy - Tokyo National Museum - DSC06166.JPG CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31423862

P. 54 – Cartoon Conspiracy: Barbara Smaller, The New Yorker

P. 61 – Marco Evaristti, Helena (2000) https://www.evaristti.com/helena-el-pescador-1

P. 66 – Cartoon Batman: Tanya Kostochka, Noûs Philosophy

P. 78 – Shinkichi Takahashi: From Zen Poems of Shinkichi Takahashi by Stryk and Ikemoto. Shinkichi Takahashi (1901–1987)

P. 84 – Søren Solkær, BLACK SUN #106, used with permission. 2026 © Søren Solkær – all rights reserved.

P. 110 – Cartoon Quantum Comix: unknown

P. 111 – Shinkichi Takahashi: From Zen Poems of Shinkichi Takahashi by Stryk and Ikemoto. Shinkichi Takahashi (1901–1987)

P. 113 – Michael Addis, “Wonders of nature, a Starling murmuration”; licensed use.

P. 125 – Cadavre exquis (no title); by Alexandre Noll, André Breton & Max Morise (1927) – Centre Pompidou, Paris (photo credit: C. Bruck)

P. 139 – Eva Cecilie Skak: Was it Vandalism, that Jolene had a Colorful Day? (2020) – EvaC-Art.dk © 2026 All rights reserved; printed with permission (photo by C. Bruck)

P. 140 – Thomas Piketty (2014), Capital in the Twenty-First Century, p. 571

P. 144 – Karin de Jonge, “Flock of Starlings in the Netherlands”; licensed use.

P. 186 – Antonio Machado, “Proverbios y cantares XXIX,” in Campos de Castilla.

P. 187 – Gregory Colbert, Boy reading to elephant; Gregory Colbert © all rights reserved