To Read
Ernesto Laclau’s On Populist Reason
Francis Fukuyama’s Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari What is Philosophy?
Hannah Arendt’s On Violence
Jacques Derrida’s Spectres of Marx
Jacques Derrida’s Speech and Phenomena
Jacques Derrida’s Dissemination
Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello The New Spirit of Capitalism
Noam Chomsky and Michelle Foucault The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature
Raymond Williams Marxism and Literature (Selected essays on Ideology, Base & Superstructure, and Hegemony)
Silvia Federici Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
Silvia Federici Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons
Thomas Picketty’s Capital
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Finished Reading
Alain Badiou’s Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil
Angela Davis’s “I Used to Be Your Sweet Mama”
bell hooks’s “Is Paris Burning?”
Booker T. Washington’s “The Atlanta Exposition Address”
Chantal Mouffe’s “Deliberative Democracy or Agonistic Pluralism”
Democracy in What State Collection of Essays by Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Daniel Bensaid, Wendy Brown, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Ranciere, Kristin Ross, and Slavoj Zizek
Donna Harraway’s “A Cyborg Manifesto”
Drew Milne’s Introduction to Modern Critical Thought
Edward Said’s Orientalism Introduction and first section of Chapter One
Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe’s Hegemony and Socialist Strategy
Frantz Fanon’s “The Fact of Blackness”
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s “Can the Subaltern Speak?”
Gilles Deleuze’s “Critique” Chapter 3 in Nietzsche and Philosophy
György Lukács’s “The Phenomenon of Reification”
Hannah Arendt’s “Ideology and Terror: A Novel Form of Government” from Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt’s “Reflections on Little Rock”
Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition
Hannah Arendt’s The Promise of Politics
Homi Bhabha’s “Interrogating Identity: Frantz Fanon and the Postcolonial Prerogative” from The Location of Culture
Introduction to Drew Milne’s Modern Critical Thought
Jacques Derrida’s “Of Grammatology”
Jean-Francois Lyotard’s The Post Modern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
Jean-Jaques Rousseau’s Social Contract Book 3
Judith Butler, Ernesto Lacau, and Slavoj Zizek’s Contingency, Hegemony, Universality
Judith Butler’s “Gender is Burning: Questions of Appropriation and Subversion”
Karl Marx’s “A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy”
Karl Marx’s “Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right”
Karl Marx’s “Economic and Philosophical manuscripts of 1844”
Karl Marx’s “Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts”
Karl Marx’s “Wage-Labor and Capital”
Karl Marx’s Das Kapital Volume 1
Karl Marx’s The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx’s The German ideology
Linda Nochlin’s “Why Have there Been no Great Women Artists?”
Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism
Max Horkheimer’s “The Social Function of Philosophy”
Max Horkheimer’s Postscript to “Philosophy and Critical Theory”
W.E.B. DuBois “Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others”
