Maurizia Boscagli, Enda Duffy, Glyn Salton-Cox, Ben Olguin

• Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, First Manuscript, “Estranged Labor”
• “The Fragment on Machines” from Grundrisse, (1857-58)
• Capital vol. 1, Part I, Ch. 1 “Commodities” (1867)
• Friedrich Nietzsche, from Genealogy of Morals (1887)
• Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory (1896), Ch. 3 “On Creative Evolution”
• Georg Simmel, “The Metropolis and Mental Life” (1903)
• Rosa Luxemburg, The Accumulation of Capital (1913), “The Object of Our Investigation”
• Sigmund Freud, from Civilization and Its Discontents (1929), ch. 3, 6, and 7
• Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, from Dialectic of Enlightenment, “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception” (1944)
• Walter Benjamin, from Charles Baudelaire, A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism, “The Flâneur” (1969); “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (1936)
• Leon Trotsky, from Literature and Revolution (1924), Ch. 3 “Fetishism”, and Ch. 6 “Proletarian Culture”
• Martin Heidegger, Introduction to Being and Time (1927)
• Georges Bataille, “The Notion of Expenditure” (1933)
• György Lukács, “Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat” (1923) Part I; “Realism in Balance” (1938)
• Antonio Gramsci, from Prison Notebooks, (1929-1935), “State and Civil Society”, “War of Position and War of Manoeuvre”, and “Intellectuals and Education”
• C.L.R. James, from The Black Jacobins (1938), Preface, Ch 1 and Ch. 3

• Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception (1945) “The Body”
• Jean-Paul Sartre, “Preface” to Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth, (1961); “Existentialism is a Humanism”(1946) and “What is Literature?” (1947)
• Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949) Vol. 1, Part I, “Destiny” (Ch. 1 and 3)
• Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida (1980); “The Death of the Author” (1967); “Myth Today” and “Plastic”, from Mythologies (1957)
• Herbert Marcuse, from Eros and Civilization (1955), Ch. 2 and 9
• Raymond Williams, “Culture is Ordinary” (1958), and “Hegemony”, “Dominant, Residual, and Emergent”, from Marxism and Literature (1977)
• Frantz Fanon, from The Wretched of the Earth (1961), “Spontaneity”, and “The Pitfalls of National Consciousness”; from Black Skin, White Masks, (1952) Introduction and ch. 1
• Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle (1967), ch. 1 and 2
• Louis Althusser, “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses” from Lenin and Philosophy (1970)
• Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1970), Ch. 1 and 2
• Henri Lefebvre, Critique of Everyday Life (1977), Ch. 2 and 3; The Production of Space, Ch.2 and 6
• Michel Foucault, “Of Other Spaces” (1967); Discipline and Punish, Part I, Ch. 1 and 2; “Society Must Be Defended”, from Lectures at the Collège de France (1978-79)
• Michel de Certeau, “Walking in the City” (1980)
• Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulations (1981) “The Precession of Simulacra”
• Cedric Robinson, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition (1983), Part III, Ch. 8 and 9
• Deleuze and Guattari, One Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1987), “Introduction: Rhyzome” and Ch. 6 “How Do You Make Yourself A Body Without Organs”
• Edward Said, Orientalism (1978) Introduction and Ch. 1; Culture and Empire (1993), Introduction and Ch. 1
• Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, Decolonizing The Mind (1986), Introduction and ch. 1, “The Language of African Literature”
• Gayatri Spivak, “Can the Subaltern Speak?” (1988)
• Gilles Deleuze, “Postscript on the Societies of Control” (1990)
• Stuart Hall, “Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms” (1980); “Cultural Identity and Diaspora” (1996)
• Giorgio Agamben Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (1995), “Introduction”
• Fredric Jameson, Part 1 of Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991); “The Politics of Utopia” (2004) (in New Left Review)
• David Harvey, Spaces of Hope (2000), Ch. 4, 6 and 9 “The Right to the City” (2008) in NLR
• Silvia Federici, Ch. 2 of Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation(2004)
• Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt, Empire (2000) Part I, “The Political Constitution of the Present, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3; and Multitude (2004), pp. 103-129
• John Foster Bellamy, Marx’s Ecology. Materialism and Nature (2000) Introduction and ch 5, “The Metabolism of Nature and Society”
• Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe. Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (2000), “Introduction: The Idea of Provincializing Europe”
• Donna Haraway, Introduction and Ch. 1 of When Species Meet (2008)
• Angela Y. Davis, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle, Ch. 1, 2 and 4
• Slavoj Žižek, Like A Thief in Broad Light. Power in the Era of the Post Human (2018) Introduction and Ch. 1
• Maurizio Lazzarato, The Making of The Indebted Man: An Essay on the Neoliberal Condition (2012) Ch. 1 and 2