3/9 update

March 4, 2009 stepdiane

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