3/9 update
1. This Monday, those in the group who are unafraid of some snow made a few changes to the reading schedule. For next week we’re going to skip ahead a bit, past week 6 and 7, and get going with the Agamben (clearly we all need it). So we’ll be reading:
WEEK 6 // MARCH 9
Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, pp. 1-12 and 119-188
Henry Giroux, “Violence, Katrina, and the Biopolitics of Disposability”
Gabriel Giorgi and Karen Pinkus, “Zones of Exception: Biopolitical Territories in the Neoliberal Era”
and for the following week…
WEEK 7 // MARCH 16
Agamben, State of Exception, 1-40; 53-64 (or maybe just the whole book?)
Georges Sorel, “The Proletarian General Strike” from Reflections on Violence
Walter Benjamin, “Critique of Violence”
Katja Diefenbach, “To bring about the real state of exception: The power of exception in Agamben, the power of potentiality in Negri”
http://translate.eipcp.net/strands/02/diefenbach-strands01en/#_ftn1
[see the schedule below for PDFs of the readings]
2. FYI: there’s going to be a student walkout tomorrow at 2pm at Hunter College to take students to the rally against budget cuts at City Hall. Here’s the info:
NO BUDGET CUTS!
NO TUITION HIKE!
NO LAYOFFS!
For Free Tuition and Open Admissions!
THURSDAY, MARCH 5TH
2PM – WALKOUT
@ HUNTER COLLEGE
3PM – RALLY & SPEAK OUT
@ BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN
COMMUNITY COLLEGE
4PM – UNION RALLY
AGAINST BUDGET CUTS
@ CITY HALL
Subway Lines to Hunter College: 6 to 68th St, F to 63rd St
Subway Lines to BMCC & City Hall: 1/2/3 to Chambers St., A/C to Chambers St. R/W to City Hall, E to World Trade Center, or 4/5/6/J/Z to Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall
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update and links
1. readings for this week are:
-Foucault, “Technologies of the Self” http://www.thefoucauldian.co.uk/tself.pdf
-Foucault, “The Ethics of the Concern for the Self as a Practice of Freedom”
-Jason Read, “A Genealogy of Homo-Economicus: Neoliberalism and the Production of Subjectivity” ( look how cute he is! http://www.usm.maine.edu/phi/indexread.htm)
http://ej.lib.cbs.dk/index.php/foucault-studies/article/view/2465/2463
-Guattari, “On the Production of Subjectivity” http://biopolitics09.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/guattarisubjectivity.pdf
+special treat, a Tiqqun text called Living and Fighting
“By war machine, a certain coinciding of living and fighting should be understood, a certain coincidence that never leads itself to demanding/imposing without at the same time being built. Because each time one of these terms finds itself in some way separated from the other, the war machine degenerates, goes off track. If it is the moment of living that is unilateralized, it becomes a ghetto… if it is the moment of struggling that is singled out, the war machine degenerates into an army.”
2. Tarnac 9 support website: http://tarnac9.wordpress.com/
3. Since we were discussing the recent student occupations quite a bit last week, here are readable PDFs of 2 pamphlets written in the wake of the New School occupation.
The New School Occupation: Perspectives on the Takeover of a Building (or, why do student organizers bother to get out of bed in the morning?) [ PDF ]
Preoccupied (the logic of occupation) [ PDF ]
Add a comment February 26, 2009
class schedule
class schedule:
part one—->
week 1: february 2
introduction
-Gilles Deleuze, Postscript on Society of Control [ PDF ]
-Michel Foucault, “The Subject and Power” [ PDF ]
-Boltanski & Chiapello, “1968: Crisis and Revival of Capitalism” [ PDF ]
-Agamben, Giorgio, “Whatever,” and “Tiananmen”
[ download the whole book here ]
-Selected articles on the recent riots in Greece, Europe and California:
-Fears of unrest spreading across europe (Scotsman)
-Greek unrest spreads to rest of europe (National Post
-Eastern europe braced for a violent ‘spring of discontent’ (Guardian)
-Rioters of the world unite (Economist)
-We are here, we are everywhere, we are an image from the future
-Oakland on fire
week 2: february 9
real subsumption
-Foucault, final lecture from Society Must Be Defended [ PDF ]
-Maurizio Lazzarato, “From Biopower to Biopolitics”
[ online text ]
-Jason Read, “The Real Subsumption of Subjectivity by Capital” from The Micro-Politics of Capital [ PDF ]
week 3: february 16
value, production, measure; homo oeconomicus
-Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 14 March 1979, pp. 216-237; 28 March 1979, 267-289.
-Lazzarato, “Biopolitics/Bioeconomics: a politics of multiplicity”
[ online text ]
-Harry Cleaver, Money-as-Command [ online text ]
-Gigi Roggero, Eight Theses on University, Hiearchization and Institutions of the Common [ PDF ]
week 4: february 23
war on the unexpected: crisis, risk, emergence
-Foucault, pp. 1-79 from Security, Territory, Population
-Dario Padovan, “Biopolitics and the social control of the multitude” [ PDF ]
-Melinda Cooper, “Life Beyond the Limits” and “Preempting Emergence” from Life as Surplus
———-“Infrastructure and Event: Urbanism and the Accidents of Finance” [ PDF ]
-Agamben, “Metropolis” [ online text ]
-Agamben, “What is a Dispositif?”
[ online text / audio if you want it ]
week 5: march 2
governmentality, care of the self
*film: segments from the Adam Curtis documentary Century of the Self [ watch online ]
Foucault, “Governmentality”
———-“Technologies of the Self” [ PDF ]
———-“Lives of Infamous Men” from Power: Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984 v. 3
Deleuze, “Immanence, A Life” from Immanence, Essays on a Life
Bifo, “Biopolitics and Connective Mutation” [ online text ]
week 6: march 9
“that real presence, that taste for living life”
Michel Houllebecq, The Possibility of an Island
Felix Guattari, “On the Production of Subjectivity” [ PDF ]
Week 7: March 16
no thanks
film: Get Rid of Yourself
Katja Diefenbach, “New Angels. On postoperaist messianism and the good fortune of being communist” [ online text ]
Per Backius, “Other Work: A Dividual Enterprise” [ PDF ]
George Katsiaficas, section on the Italian feminist movement from Subversion of Politics
part two—-> time to get SERIOUS!))
week 8: march 23
bare life, state of exception
Agamben, pp. 1-12 and 119-188 from Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life [ download full book ]
Agamben, selections from State of Exception
[ download full book ]
Henry Giroux, “Violence, Katrina, and the Biopolitics of Disposability” [ PDF ]
film: Children of Men
week 9: march 30
bare life, immunity
Roberto Esposito, “Biopower and Biopotentiality” from Bios: Biopolitics and Philosophy
Timothy Campbell, “Bios, Immunity, Life: The Thought of Roberto Esposito” [ PDF ]
Interview with Esposito from diacritics [ PDF ]
Mika Ojakangas, “Impossible Dialogue on Bio-power: Agamben and Foucault” [ PDF ]
A. Oels, “Rendering climate change governable: From biopower to advanced liberal government?” Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning
Gabriel Giorgi and Karen Pinkus, “Zones of Exception: Biopolitical Territories in the Neoliberal Era” [ PDF ]
week 10: april 6
form-of-life, gesture
Agamben,“Form of Life,” “Notes on Gesture,” and “Notes on Politics,” from Means Without End. [ download full book ]
Agamben, selections from The Open: Man and Animal. [ download full book ]
Samuel Weber, “Going Along for the Ride: Violence and Gesture: Agamben Reading Benjamin Reading Kafka Reading Cervantes.” [ PDF ]
week 11: april 20
community
Jean-Luc Nancy, selections from The Inoperative Community
Vijay Devadas, and Jane Mummery, “Community Without Community” [ online text ]
week 12: april 27
war machine
Filippo Argenti, “Nights of Rage: on the recent revolts in France” [ online text ]
Todd May, “Who We Are and Who We Might Be” from The Philosophy of Foucault
Deleuze & Guattari, “Nomadology (war machine)”
Tiqqun, “Introduction to Civil War” [ online text ]
week 13: may 4
strike
Claire Fontaine, “Ready-Made Artist and Human Strike: A few Clarifications” [ PDF ]
Precarias a la Deriva, “A Very Careful Strike – Four Hypotheses” [ PDF ]
Georges Sorel, “The Proletarian General Strike” from Reflections on Violence
Walter Benjamin, “Critique of Violence” [ PDF ]
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Week 2
Read, The Micro-Politics of Capital
Ch. 3.pdf
Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, Final Chapter
http://roundtable.kein.org/files/roundtable/Foucault_Soc_Defended.pdf
Lazzarato, Maurizio, “From Biopower to Biopolitics“
http://www.generation-online.org/c/fcbiopolitics.htm
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