{"id":23379,"date":"2022-08-29T09:57:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T16:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=23379"},"modified":"2022-08-29T09:58:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T16:58:39","slug":"histories-of-anti-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2022\/08\/29\/histories-of-anti-capitalism\/","title":{"rendered":"“Histories of Anti-Capitalism”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A brand new grad course titled\u00a0“Histories of Anti-Capitalism.”<\/a>\u00a0Here’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:<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
WEEK 1What Is Capitalism? What Is Anti-Capitalism?Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, \u201cThe Communist Manifesto\u201d [marxists.org<\/a>]Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism <\/em>(excerpt) [D2L]Existential Comics, \u201cExplaining Capitalism to Aliens\u201d<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Sep. 5LABOR DAY<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
WEEK 2Four Futures
Peter Frase, Four Futures<\/em><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
WEEK 3The Luddites and after
Gavin Mueller, Breaking Things at Work<\/em><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
WEEK 4Critique
Barbara Foley, Marxist Literary Criticism Today<\/em><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
WEEK 5Utopia
Fredric Jameson, \u201cReification and Utopia in Mass Culture,\u201d \u201cUtopia as Replication,\u201d and An American Utopia<\/em> [D2L and YouTube]<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
WEEK 6Postcolonalism
Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth<\/em><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
WEEK 7Black Marxism
C.L.R. James, Cedric Robinson, bell hooks, and Angela Davis [D2L]<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
WEEK 8Gender
Silvia Federici (wages for housework), Kathi Weeks (abolition of the family) [D2L]<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
WEEK 920th<\/sup> century text we will choose together<\/em><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
WEEK 10Queer Marxism
Jos\u00e9 Esteban Mu\u00f1oz, Cruising Utopia<\/em><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
WEEK 11Disability
disability rights movements, the ADA, Marta Russell and Ravi Malhorta, Sami Schalk, \u201cNeoliberalism and the Commodification of Mental Health\u201d [D2L]<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
WEEK 12Ecology
John Bellamy Foster (ecology against capitalism), Andr\u00e9 Gorz (\u201cThe Social Ideology of the Motorcar\u201d), Kathryn Yusoff (the Anthropocene), Greta Thunberg [D2L and Web]<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
WEEK 13The University
How the University Works;<\/em> student movements; precarious labor and unionization; student debt abolition; state funding [D2L and Web]<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

THANKSGIVING BREAK: NO CLASS<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
WEEK 1421st<\/sup> century text we will choose together<\/em><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
WEEK 15PRESENTATIONS<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Dec. 16<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

(Submitted by Michael Kelly, H.W.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cHistories of Anti-Capitalism\u201d! A brand new grad course titled\u00a0“Histories of Anti-Capitalism.”\u00a0Here’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, \u201cThe Communist Manifesto\u201d… Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23379"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23379"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23384,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23379\/revisions\/23384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}