A brand new grad course titled “Histories of Anti-Capitalism.” Here’s the general plan for the anti-capitalism course, which is going to get finalized in consultation with the students who will be leading discussion each week:
WEEK 1What Is Capitalism? What Is Anti-Capitalism?Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, “The Communist Manifesto” [marxists.org]Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism (excerpt) [D2L]Existential Comics, “Explaining Capitalism to Aliens”
Sep. 5LABOR DAY
WEEK 2Four Futures Peter Frase, Four Futures
WEEK 3The Luddites and after Gavin Mueller, Breaking Things at Work
WEEK 4Critique Barbara Foley, Marxist Literary Criticism Today
WEEK 5Utopia Fredric Jameson, “Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture,” “Utopia as Replication,” and An American Utopia [D2L and YouTube]
WEEK 6Postcolonalism Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
WEEK 7Black Marxism C.L.R. James, Cedric Robinson, bell hooks, and Angela Davis [D2L]
WEEK 8Gender Silvia Federici (wages for housework), Kathi Weeks (abolition of the family) [D2L]
WEEK 920th century text we will choose together
WEEK 10Queer Marxism José Esteban Muñoz, Cruising Utopia
WEEK 11Disability disability rights movements, the ADA, Marta Russell and Ravi Malhorta, Sami Schalk, “Neoliberalism and the Commodification of Mental Health” [D2L]
WEEK 12Ecology John Bellamy Foster (ecology against capitalism), André Gorz (“The Social Ideology of the Motorcar”), Kathryn Yusoff (the Anthropocene), Greta Thunberg [D2L and Web]
WEEK 13The University How the University Works; student movements; precarious labor and unionization; student debt abolition; state funding [D2L and Web]
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“Histories of Anti-Capitalism”!
