update and links

February 26, 2009 stepdiane

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 ]