class schedule

February 11, 2009 stepdiane

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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