Themes: Political Economy, Critical Theory, Racecraft, and Phenomenological Geometry

I. Political Economy, Labor, and the State

  • 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. The Black 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, Space, 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 and Ontology

  • 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, Affect, 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. Insurrection, 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 and Psychology

  • 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.

VIII. Supplemental: The Linchpin Context (U.S. Voting & Constitutional Law)

  • 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.

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