CULTURE & CAPITAL
Course Outline: EAST 527 ARTH 723 COMS 637 (2018).pdf
READING SCHEDULE
January 8 Introduction
—Karl Marx, “Production, Consumption, Distribution, Exchange (Circulation),” Introduction to Grundrisse (1857; Penguin,1993), 83-111. Grundrisse_Intro.PDF
—Videos: David Harvey’s seminar on Capital
Unit 1: Political Economy (Marx)
January 15 —Karl Marx, Capital Volume 1, Parts 1, 2, 3
January 22 —Karl Marx, Capital Volume 1, Parts 4, 5, 6, 7
January 29 —Karl Marx, Capital Volume 1, Part 8
February 5 Presentations and discussion
—Jacques Lacan, “The Mirror Stage,” in Écrits.
—Daniel Smith, “The Inverse Side of Structure: Zizek on Deleuze on Lacan,” Criticism 46:4 (2004): 635-650
First Paper Due
Unit 2: Subjectivity (Deleuze & Guattari)
February 12—Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus Chapters 1-2
February 19—Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, Chapter 3
February 26—Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus Chapter 4
March 5—Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus Review
March 12Presentations and discussion
Second Paper Due
Unit 3: Anthropology (Graeber)
March 19—David Graeber, Debt, Chapters 1-6
March 26—David Graeber, Debt, Chapters 7-10
April 2—David Graeber, Debt, Chapters 11-12
April 9Speaker: Michael Bourdaghs
April 16Speaker: Brian Massumi
April 21Third Paper Due
