I- Religion, Metaphysics
Complete Works- Jorge-Luis Borges (entire series)
The Bible: Genesis & Ezekiel
On the Mystical Shape of the Godhead-Gershom Scholem
II- Myth, Literature, and Psychology
"Narcissus and Echo" from Metamorphoses- Ovid
On Narcissism- Sigmund Freud
The Culture of Narcissism- Christopher Lasch
The Picture of Dorian Gray- Oscar Wilde
Through the Looking-Glass- Lewis Carroll
Pale Fire- Vladimir Nabokov
Understanding Media- Marshall McLuhan
The Lady from Shanghai (film)- Orson Welles
Mirror (film)- Andrei Tarkovsky
Orpheus (film)- Jean Cocteau
"The Mirror Stage"- Jacques Lacan
III- Philosophy
The Enneads- Plotinus
The World as Will and Representation- Schopenhauer
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature- Richard Rorty
Difference and Repetition- Gilles Deleuze
The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition- MH Abrams
IV- Technology and Magic
Mirror Worlds: or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox . . .-David Gelertner
John Dee & the Empire of Angels- Jason Louv
The Net: The Unabomber, LSD & the Internet (documentary film)
Industrial Society and Its Future- Ted Kaczynski
Simulacra and Simulation- Jean Baudrillard