Culture & Capital, Winter 2013
UNIT 1 (Critique of political economy)
Week 1:
—Karl Marx, Capital, vol 1
Week 2:
—Massimo De Angelis, The Beginning of History: Value Struggles and Global Capital (Pluto Press, 2007)
Week 3:
—Yoshihiko Ishida and Yann Moulier Boutang, “Against the Closure of the World: What is at Stake in the Second Great Transformation,” Traces 5: Translation, Biopolitics, Colonial Difference (Hong Kong University Press, 2006), 235-247. Ishida and Moulier-Boutang.PDF
—Jon Kraniaukas, “Empire, or multitude,” Radical Philosophy 103 (Sept/Oct 2000), 29-39.
—Alberto Toscano, “From Pin Factories to Gold Farmers,” Historical Materialism 15 (2007): 3-11.
Toscano From Pin Factories.pdf
—Maurizio Lazzarato, “From Capital-Labour to Capital-Life,” ephemera 4:3 (2004): 187-208.
—Tiziana Terranova, “Free Labor: Producing Culture for the Digital Economy,” Social Text 63 18:2 (2000): 33-58. Tizina_Terranova.pdf
—Brett Neilson and Ned Rossiter, “Precarity as a Political Concept, or, Fordism as Exception,” Theory, Culture & Society 25: 7-8 (2008): 51-72. Neilson & Rossiter Precarity.pdf
Week 4:
—Neferti X. M. Tadiar, Things Fall Away: Philippine Historical Experience and the Makings of Globalization (Duke University Press, 2011)
UNIT 2 (Micropolitical economy)
Week 5:
—Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (University of Minnesota Press, 1983)
Week 6:
—Daniel Smith, “The Inverse Side of Structure: Zizek on Deleuze on Lacan,” Criticism 46:4 (2004): 635-650
—Eugene Holland, “Marx and Poststructuralist Philosophies of Difference,” The South Atlantic Quarterly 96:3 (1997): 525-541
—Jason Read, “The Age of Cynicism: Deleuze and Guattari on the Production of Subjectivity in Capitalism,” in Deleuze and Politics (Edinburgh University Press, 2008), 139-159
—Jason Read, “A Universal History of Contingency: Deleuze and Guattari on the History of Capitalism,” Borderlands 2:2 (2003): 1-17
Week 7:
—Jason Read, Micropolitics of Capital
Week 8:
—Michael Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics
UNIT (Anthropology)
Week 9:
—J. K. Gibson-Graham, The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It) (University of Minnesota Press, 2006)
Week 10:
Richard Duncan, “Interview: A New Global Depression?” New Left Review 77 (2012)
David Graeber, Debt: the First 5,0000 Years (excerpts)
David Graeber, Fragments for an Anarchist Anthropology
Maurizio Lazzarato, The Making of Indebted Man
Week 11:
—Jean Baudrillard, The Mirror of Production
Week 12:
—Georges Bataille, “The Notion of Expenditure,” in Visions of Excess (Minnesota, 1985), 116-129
—John Brenkman, “Introduction to Bataille,” New German Critique 16 (1979), 59-63
—Georges Bataille, “The Psychological Structure of Fascism,” trans. Carl R. Lovitt, New German Critique 16 (1979), 64-87
—Jean-Joseph Goux, “General Economics and Postmodern Capitalism,” Yale French Studies 78 (1990), 206-224
—William Pawlett, “The ‘Break’ with Marxism” and “Symbolic Exchange and Death,” in Jean Baudrillard: Against Banality (Routledge, 2007), 28-69
Week 13:
—Bruno Latour and Vincent Antonin Lepinay, The Science of Passionate Interests
—Philippe Pignarre and Isabelle Stengers, Capitalist Sorcery
—Arjun Appadurai, “Commodities and the Politics of Value,” from The Social Life of Things (Cambridge University Press, 1986), 3-63
