Former master reading list

Resistance: disciplinarity, control, justice

Agamben, Giorgio. Homo Sacer, The Coming Community, Means Without Ends.

Althusser, Louis. Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses, Marxism Today and Contradiction and Overdetermination.

Bataille, Georges. Selections from Visions of Excess.

Bookchin, Murray. Selections from The Ecology of Freedom.

Brown, Wendy. States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity.

Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble, Bodies that Matter and The Psychic Life of Power.

Chomsky, Noam. Manufacturing Consent.

de Certeau, Michel. Selections from The Practice of Everyday Life and Heterologies.

Deleuze, Gilles and Felix Guattari. Selections from Anti-Oedipus, A Thousand Plateaus and Nomadology.

Derrida, Jacques. Specters of Marx and Force of Law.

Foucault, Michel. Selections from Discipline and Punish, History of Sexuality Vol. I, The Order of Things, The Archaeology of Knowledge.

Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed.

Gramsci, Antonio. Selections from The Prison Notebooks.

Habermas, Jürgen. Selections from Theory of Communicative Action and The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere.

Hardt, Michael and Antonio Negri. Empire.

Holloway, John. Change the World Without Taking Power.

Kofman, Sarah. Camera Obscura. On Ideology.

Laclau, Ernesto and Chantal Mouffe. Hegemony and Socialist Strategy.

Lacoue-Labarthe, Philippe. Selections from The Fiction of the Political.

Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. The German Ideology.

Popper, Karl. The Open Society and Its Enemies.

Poulantzas, Nicos. Selections from State, Power, Socialism.

Rawls, John. A Theory of Justice.

Schmitt, Carl. The Concept of the Political.

Sloterdijk, Peter. Selections from Critique of Cynical Reason.

Weber, Max. The Profession and Vocation of Politics.

Wolf, Eric. Selections from Europe and the Peoples without History.

Subaltern: race, class, gender

Ahmad, Aijaz. In Theory.

Anzaldua, Gloria. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza.

Appadurai, Arjun. Modernity at Large.

Balibar, Etienne and Immanuel Wallerstein. Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities.

Beauvoir, Simone de. The Second Sex.

Bhabha, Homi. The Location of Culture.

Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble, Bodies that Matter and The Psychic Life of Power.

Cixous, Helene. The Laugh of the Medusa.

Durkheim, Emile. The Division of Labour in Society.

Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth.

Foucault, Michel. Selections from Discipline and Punish, History of Sexuality Vol. I, The Order of Things and The Archaeology of Knowledge.

Fraser, Nancy. Justice Interruptus and selections from Unruly Practices: Power, Discourse, and Gender in Contemporary Social Theory.

Fusco, Coco. The Bodies That Were not Ours, and Other Writings.

Gates, Henry Louis Jr. The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism

Haraway, Donna. The Cyborg Manifesto.

hooks, bell. Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism and We Real Cool; Black Men and Masculinity.

Lebowitz, Michael. Beyond Capital.

Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. The German Ideology.

Said, Edward. Orientalism.

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. Selections from A Critique of Postcolonial Reason and In Other Worlds.

West, Cornell. A Genealogy of Modern Racism.

Philosophy, language, subjectivity (human/post-human)

Adorno, Theodor. From Negative Dialectics, “Introduction” and II. Part two: “Negative Dialectics. Concept and Categories”; selections from Minima Moralia.

Ansell-Pearson, Keith. Nietzsche Contra Rousseau.

Arendt, Hannah. On the Human Condition.

Barthes, Roland. Empire of Signs.

Cadava, Eduardo et al., eds. Who Comes After the Subject?

Cassirer, Ernst. Philosophy of the Enlightenment.

Das, Veena et al, eds. Violence and Subjectivity.

Deleuze, Gilles. Nietzsche and Philosophy.

Derrida, Jacques. Of Grammatology and “Signature, Event, Context.”

Habermas, Jürgen. Selections from The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity.

Haraway, Donna. The Cyborg Manifesto.

Lacan, Jacques. Selections from Ecrits and The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis.

Nieman, Susan. Evil in Modern Thought.

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Human All Too Human and Twilight of the Idols/Anti-Christ.

de Saussure, Ferdinand. Selections from the Course in General Linguistics.

Taylor, Charles. Sources of the Self.

Žižek, Slavoj. The Ticklish Subject.

Modern/postmodern

Barthes, Roland. Empire of Signs.

Baudrillard, Jean. Selected Writings.

Bauman, Zygmunt. Modernity and the Holocaust and selections from Intimations of Postmodernity.

Benjamin, Walter. Selections from The Arcades Project.

Debord, Guy. Society of the Spectacle.

Giddens, Anthony. The Consequences of Modernity and Modernity and Self-Identity.

Harvey, David. The Condition of Postmodernity and The Limits to Capital.

Horkheimer, Max and Theodor Adorno. Dialectic of Enlightenment.

Jameson, Fredric. Postmodernism, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism.

Joas, Hans. War and Modernity.

Kant, Immanuel. “What is Enlightenment?” (“Wast ist Aufklarung?”)

Kuhn, Thomas. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

Latour, Bruno. We Have Never Been Modern.

Lefebvre, Henri. Selections from Everyday Life in the Modern World.

Lyotard, Jean-Francois. The Postmodern Condition.

Ollman, Bertell. Alienation.

Owen, David. Maturity and Modernity: Nietzsche, Weber, Foucault and the Ambivalence of Reason.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Discourse on the Origin of Inequality and On the Social Contract.

Virilio, Paul. Selections from The Paul Virilio Reader.

Ecology: culture/nature

Bookchin, Murray. Selections from The Ecology of Freedom.

Bourdieu, Pierre. The Field of Cultural Production.

Buell, Larry. Writing for an Endangered World and Future of Environmental Criticism.

Clifford, James. Selections from The Predicament of Culture.

Cronon, William (ed). Uncommon Ground.

Edwards, Elizabeth. Raw Histories: Photographs, Anthropology and Museums.

Fabian, Johannes. Selections from Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes its Object.

Freud, Sigmund. Civilization and Its Discontents and Totem and Taboo.

Garrard, Greg. Ecocriticism.

Geertz, Clifford. Selections from The Interpretation of Cultures.

Glacken, Clarence. Traces on the Rhodian Shore.

Gorz, Andre. Ecology as Politics.

Ingold, Tim. The Perception of the Environment.

Levi-Strauss, Claude. Elementary Structures of Kinship.

Light, Andrew, ed. Social Ecology after Bookchin.

Mauss, Marcel. The Gift.

McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media.

Williams, Raymond. Culture and Society.

Žižek, Slavoj. The Sublime Object of Ideology.