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Readings
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Readings
unavailable online will be available for copying in the MRG mailbox
(Turlington 4301).
Spring
2008
March
23: Paula Rabinowitz "Wreckage
upon Wreckage: History, Documentary, and the Ruins of Memory"
from History and Theory (1993).
March
2: Michael Denning "The
Academic Left and the Rise of Cultural Studies" and "What's
Wrong With Cultural Studies" from Culture in the Age
of Three Worlds (2004); Andrew Ross "Claims
for Cultural Justice" from Real Love: In Pursuit of
Cultural Justice (1998) and "Introduction"
from Fast Boat to China: Corporate Flight and the Consequences
of Free Trade (2006).
February
10: Giovanni Arrighi "Introduction"
and "The Three Hegemonies of Historical Capitalism"
from The Long Twentieth Century (1994).
Fall
2007
November
18: Lenin "Imperialism:
The Highest Stage of Capitalism" (1917).
October
14: Fredric Jameson "Introduction"
and Louis Althusser "Philosophy
as a Revolutionary Weapon" (1968) from Lenin and Philosophy
(2001); Slavoj Zizek "Introduction"
and "'I or He or It (the Thing) Which Thinks'" from
Tarrying with the Negative (1993).
September
23: Marx Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 as
selected by Tucker in The Marx-Engels Reader (66-125): "Preface,"
"Estranged
Labor," "Private
Property and Communism," "The
Meaning of Human Requirements," "The
Power of Money in Bourgeois Society," and "Critique
of the Hegelian Dialectic and Philosophy as a Whole."
Summer
2007
July
1: Paolo Virno, interviewed by Isabelle Graw in Texte zur Kunst
63 (September 2006); G. A. Cohen "Images
of History in Hegel and Marx" and "Use-Value, Exchange-Value,
and Contemporary Capitalism" from Karl Marx's Theory of
History (1978); Sande Cohen "Derrida's 'New Scholar': Between
Philosophy and History" from History Out of Joint (2006).
Spring
2007
March
25: Goran Therborn "After
Dialectics" New Left Review 43 (Jan.-Feb. 2007).
Feb.
24: Cary Nelson "What
Hath English Wrought: The Corporate University's Fast Food Discipline"
from Disciplining English: Alternative Histories, Critical Perspectives
(2002) and "The
Humanities and the Perils of Globalization" from Office
Hours: Activism and Change in the Academy (2004).
Fall
2006
The
reading sessions have been temporarily suspended, as many members'
energies are focused on CLASUnite.
Spring
2006
March
25: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak A Critique of Postcolonial Reason
(chapter on philosophy).
March
3: TBA, Hitchcock
Feb.
19: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak A Critique of Postcolonial Reason
(chapter on literature).
Feb.
3: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak "Can the Subaltern Speak?"
from Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, Warren Montag's
response,
and Spivak's "Supplementing Marxism" from Whither Marxism?
Jan.
22: Peter Hitchcock "The
Genre of Postcoloniality" New Literary History 34.2
(2003): 299-330. Also, the introduction to Oscilate Wildly.
Fall
2005
Oct.
23: Laclau and Mouffe Hegemony
and Socialist Strategy (chapter 3).
Oct.
9: Antonio Gramsci The
Modern Prince.
Sept.
25: Marx "Theses
on Feuerbach" and 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon,
especially chapters 1 & 7.
Sept.
11: Fredric Jameson "Cognitive Mapping" from The Jameson Reader and Raymond Williams "Base
and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory" New Left Review (1973).
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