The American South

Episode 8 (24min.) https://dis.art/corporate-chains

  • Cohen, Dov, et al. “Insult, aggression, and the Southern Culture of Honor: An ‘Experimental ethnography.’” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, vol. 70, no. 5, 1996, pp. 945–960, https://doi.org/10.1037//0022-3514.70.5.945.

  • Nisbett, Richard E., and Dov Cohen. “Violence and honor in the Southern United States.” Culture of Honor, 4 May 2018, pp. 1–12, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429501142-1.

  • Cohen, D., Pang, B. CY., Seo, M., & Fu, H. H. (2025). Real-time, subjective third-person experiences and psychiatric disorders in dignity, honor, and face cultures. Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 9, Article 100250. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cresp.2025.100250

  • Elmore, Bartow J. Country Capitalism: How Corporations from the American South Remade Our Economy and the Planet. University of North Carolina Press, 2023.

  • Fishman, Charles. The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World’s Most Powerful Company Really Works--and Howit’s Transforming the American Economy. Penguin Books, 2014.

  • Helper, Hinton Rowan. Compendium of the Impending Crisis of the South. General Books, 2010.

  • Johnson, Walter. The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States. Basic Books, 2021.

  • Majewski, John D. Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Vision of the Confederate Nation. The University of North Carolina Press, 2014.

  • Moreton, Bethany. To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise. Harvard University Press, 2010.

  • Wood, Phillip J.Southern Capitalism: The Political Economy of North Carolina, 1880-1980. Duke University Press, 1986.

Constitutional Law & The Electoral College

  • Bruce Ackerman. We the People, Volume 1: Foundations. We the People Volume 1 Foundations. Harvard University Press, 1991.

  • Anderson, Carol. One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy. Bloomsbury, 2018.

  • Dahl, Robert A. How Democratic Is the American Constitution? Yale University Press, 2003.

  • Keyssar, Alexander.Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? Harvard University Press, 2020.

  • Wilentz, Sean. No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation's Founding. Harvard University Press, 2018.

  • Lawrence Lessig. Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress—and a Plan to Stop It. Republic, Lost. Twelve, 2011.

  • Sanford Levinson. Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (And How We the People Can Correct It). Our Undemocratic Constitution. Oxford University Press, 2006.

I. Political Economy, Labor

  • Agamben, Giorgio.State of Exception. University of Chicago Press, 2005.

  • Althusser, Louis, et al.Reading Capital: The Complete Edition. Verso, 2016.

  • Balibar, Etienne.The Philosophy of Marx. Verso Books, 2017.

  • Frase, Peter.Four Futures: Life After Capitalism. Verso, 2016.

  • Gibson-Graham, J. K.The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy. University of Minnesota Press, 2006.

  • Hardt, Michael, and Antonio Negri.Assembly. Oxford University Press, 2017.

  • Hardt, Michael, and Antonio Negri.Commonwealth. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.

  • Hardt, Michael, and Antonio Negri.Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire. Penguin Press, 2009.

  • Lefebvre, Henri.Dialectical Materialism. London: Cape, 1968.

  • Marx, Karl.Capital: Volume I. Penguin Books, Inc., 1990.

  • Marx, Karl.Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy. Random House, 1973.

  • Marx, Karl, et al.The Communist Manifesto. Penguin Books, 2006.

  • Marx, Karl, et al.The Political Writings. Verso, 2019.

  • Nguyen, Duy Lap. “Walter Benjamin and the Marxian Critique of Political Economy.” Constellations.

  • Wark, McKenzie.Capital Is Dead: Is This Something Worse? Verso, 2021.

II. Radical Tradition

  • Allen, Theodore William, and Jeffrey Babcock Perry.The Invention of the White Race. Verso, 2012.

  • Carmichael, Stokely, and Charles V. Hamilton.Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America. Vintage Books, 1992.

  • Fields, Karen E., and Barbara J. Fields.Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life. Verso, 2016.

  • Johnson, Gaye Theresa, and Alex Lubin.Futures of Black Radicalism. Verso, 2017.

  • Osuna, Steven. "Class Suicide: The Black Radical Tradition, Radical Scholarship, and the Neoliberal Turn." In Futures of Black Radicalism. Verso, 2017.

  • Rodney, Walter.How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Verso, 2018.

  • Rodney, Walter, et al.The Groundings with My Brothers. Verso, 2019.

  • Rodney, Walter, et al.The Russian Revolution: A View from the Third World. Verso, 2018.

  • Wang, Jackie.Carceral Capitalism. Semiotext(e), 2018.

III. Geography and Urban Crisis

  • Florida, Richard.The New Urban Crisis. Basic Books, 2016.

  • Florida, Richard.The Rise of the Creative Class. Basic Books, 2002.

  • Lefebvre, Henri.The Critique of Everyday Life. Verso, 1991.

  • Lefebvre, Henri.Rhythmanalysis: Space, Time, and Everyday Life. Continuum, 2004.

  • Whyte, Kyle Powys. “Indigenous Experience, Environmental Justice and Settler Colonialism.” SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016.

  • Whyte, Kyle Powys. “Justice Forward: Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples in the United States.” 2013.

  • Whyte, Kyle Powys. “The Dakota Access Pipeline.” The Nature of Hope, 2019.

IV. Continental Philosophy

  • Agamben, Giorgio.The Coming Community. University of Minnesota Press, 1993.

  • Babich, Babette.Hermeneutic Philosophies of Social Science. De Gruyter, 2019.

  • Babich, Babette, et al.Heidegger & Nietzsche. Editions Rodopi, 2012.

  • Badiou, Alain.Being and Event. Continuum, 2009.

  • Badiou, Alain.Manifesto for Philosophy. SUNY Press, 2010.

  • Badiou, Alain, et al.Infinite Thought: Truth and the Return to Philosophy. Bloomsbury, 2014.

  • Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari.A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.

  • Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari.Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Viking Press, 1977.

  • Harman, Graham.Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything. Pelican, 2018.

  • Harman, Graham.The Quadruple Object. Zero Books, 2011.

  • Harman, Graham.Tool-Being: Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Objects. Open Court, 2002.

  • Heidegger, Martin, et al.Being and Time. Blackwell, 2013.

  • Laruelle, François.Struggle and Utopia at the End Times of Philosophy. Univocal, 2012.

  • Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm.Twilight of the Idols: Or, How to Philosophise with the Hammer. Gordon Press, 1974.

  • Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, et al.The Philosophy of Nietzsche. Modern Library, 1954.

V. Media and Postmodernity

  • Apter, Emily.Against World Literature: On the Politics of Untranslatability. Verso, 2013.

  • Apter, Emily.Continental Drift: From National Characters to Virtual Subjects. University of Chicago Press, 1999.

  • Grove, Nicole Sunday. “Weapons of Mass Participation.” European Journal of International Relations, vol. 25.

  • Lyotard, Jean-François.The Differend: Phrases in Dispute. University of Minnesota Press, 1988.

  • Lyotard, Jean-François.The Inhuman: Reflections on Time. Stanford University Press, 1991.

  • Lyotard, Jean-François.Libidinal Economy. Indiana University Press, 1993.

  • Lyotard, Jean-François.The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. University of Minnesota Press, 1984.

  • Lyotard, Jean-François, and Jean-Loup Thébaud.Just Gaming. University of Minnesota Press, 1985.

  • Malabou, Catherine.Before Tomorrow: Epigenesis and Rationality. Polity, 2016.

  • Malabou, Catherine.Self and Emotional Life. Columbia University Press, 2013.

  • Virilio, Paul.The Aesthetics of Disappearance. Semiotext(e), 1991.

  • Žižek, Slavoj.Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology. Duke University Press, 1993.

VI. Power and Resistance

  • Hurley, Robert.To Our Friends. Semiotext(e), 2015.

  • Mouffe, Chantal.For A Left Populism. Verso, 2019.

  • The Invisible Committee.The Coming Insurrection. Semiotext(e), 2010.

VII. Phenomenology

  • Husserl, Edmund. Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy. Kluwer, 1982.

  • Mcgraw, A. Peter, et al. “Finding Humor in Distant Tragedies.” Psychological Science, vol. 23.

  • Williams, L. E., and J. A. Bargh. “Experiencing Physical Warmth Promotes Interpersonal Warmth.” Science, vol. 322.

  • Zahavi, Dan. Husserl's Phenomenology. Stanford University Press, 2008.

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