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Secondly, you will be getting an email on Sunday and not on Monday this coming week as I am taking a few days off to re-charge. The regular schedule resumes on Wednesday.
Since summer vacation has started here in Hamburg we are coming to a close of this segment, with this being the second to last one. Once again, these are some of the works I suggested to my students to read over the summer. You don’t really need any “formal” - actually, no one needs that, that’s just classism to the tenth degree, education in philosophy to “get” these, far from it.
State of Insecurity by Isabell Lorey
In State of Insecurity, Isabell Lorey explores the possibilities for organization and resistance under the contemporary status quo, and anticipates the emergence of a new and disobedient self-government of the precarious.
The Communist Manifesto / The April Theses by Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, V. I. Lenin
It was the 1917 Russian Revolution that transformed the scale of the Communist Manifesto, making it the key text for socialists everywhere. On the centenary of this upheaval, this volume pairs Marx and Engels’s most famous work with Lenin’s own revolutionary manifesto, “The April Theses,” which lifts politics from the level of everyday banalities to become an art-form.
The Future as Cultural Fact by Arjun Appadurai
This major collection of essays, a sequel to Modernity at Large and Fear of Small Numbers, is the product of ten years’ research and writing, constituting an important contribution to globalization studies. Appadurai takes a broad analytical look at the genealogies of the present era of globalization through essays on violence, commodification, nationalism, terror and materiality.
We are going to finish the regular schedule program as per usual with suggestion from yours truly with infotainment outside of the bullshit that they want to feed us. Enjoy these, presented without comment just good vibes.