Introduction:
Week One (1/28):
- Introduction: No Future?
- Working Group brainstorm
Antecedents to Neo-liberalism:
Week Two (2/4):
- Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead (1943)*
- Lisa Duggan, from The Twilight of Equality?: Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy
- David Harvey, from A Brief History of Neoliberalism
Week Three (2/18):
- Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin, Detroit, I Do Mind Dying (South End, 1975)
- Zygmunt Bauman, from Wasted Lives: Modernity and Its Outcastes
- Fredric Jameson, from Postmodernism, Or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
The Financialization of Everyday Life:
Week Four (2/25):
- Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Norton, 2010)
- Randy Martin, from The Financialization of Daily Life
- Andrew Ross, from Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times
Week Five (3/4):
- Stephanie Black and Jamaica Kincaid, Life and Debt (2001)*
- Mike Davis, from Planet of Slums
- Naomi Klein, from The Shock Doctrine
End Times and Millennial Zeal:
Week Six (3/11):
- Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth’s Last Days (Tyndale, 1996)
- Slavoj Zizek, from Living in the End Times
- Melani McAlister, “Left Behind and the Politics of Prophecy Talk”
Week Seven (3/18):
- Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Harcourt, 2007)
- Retort Collective, from Afflicted Powers
- Susan Buck-Morss, from Thinking Past Terror
Civil Disorder:
Week Eight (3/25):
- Mathieu Kassovitz, La haine (1996)
- Stuart Hall et al., from Policing the Crisis
- Ruth Wilson Gilmore, from Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
Week Nine (4/1):
- Working Group Presentations
Biopower:
Week Ten (4/8):
- Wolfgang Petersen, Outbreak (1995)*
- Priscilla Wald, from Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative
- Achille Mbembe, “Necropolitics”
Week Eleven (4/29):
- Working Group Presentations
Unnatural Disasters:
Week Twelve (5/6):
- Dave Eggers, Zeitoun (Vintage, 2010)
- Ashley Dawson, “In the REDD: The Cultural Politics of Carbon Trade”
- Vandana Shiva, from Earth Democracy
Week Thirteen (5/13):
- Indra Sinha, Animal’s People (Simon & Schuster, 2009)
- Richard Grove, from Green Imperialism
- Marc Abélès, from The Politics of Survival
