WEEK 2: CAPITAL IS (UN)DEAD
John Patrick Leary—Keywords: The New Language of Capitalism (2019)
THESE WORDS: Choice, Creative, Disruption, Flexible/Flexibility, Free, Human Capital, Innovation, Market/Marketplace, Outcome, Resilience, Sustainable, Wellness (41 pages total)
McKenzie Wark—Capital is Dead (2018), Ch. 2: Capitalism—Or Worse? (39-59)
Silvia Federici—Beyond the Periphery of the Skin (2020), Ch. 1: The Body, Capitalism and the Reproduction of Labor Power (9-22) AND Ch. 7: With Philosophy, Psychology and Terror: Transforming Bodies into Labor Power (75-88).
WEEK 3: (XENO)FEMINISMS
Laboria Cuboniks—Xenofeminist Manifesto: A Politics For Alienation (2015)
Alexander Weheliye—Habeas Viscus (2014), Ch. 1: Blackness: The Human (17-32)
Gloria Anzaldúa—Light in the Dark (2015), Ch. 2: Flights of the Imagination: Rereading/Rewriting Realities (23-46)
(ALL) Sara Ahmed—Living a Feminist Life (2017), CONCLUSION 2: A Killjoy Manifesto (251-268)
WEEK 4: BODYMINDS REIMAGINED
Melanie Yergeau—Authoring Autism (2018), Ch. 4: Invention (175-206)
Alison Kafer—Feminist Queer Crip (2013), Ch. 1: Time for Disability Studies and a Future for Crips (25-46)
Sami Schalk—Bodyminds Reimagined (2018), Ch. 3: The Future of Bodyminds, Bodyminds of the Future (85-112)
WEEK 5: QUEER FUTURITIES
Paul Preciado—Testo Junkie (2013), Ch. 2: The Pharmacopornographic Era (23-54) AND Ch. 4: History of Technosexuality (68-81)
Jack Halberstam—Trans* (2019), Ch. 4: Trans* Generations (63-83)
Kara Keeling—Queer Times, Black Futures (2019), Ch. 2: Yet Still: Queer Temporality, Black Political Possibilities, and Poetry from the Future (of Speculative Pasts) (81-105)
(ALL) Édouard Glissant—For Opacity (from Poetics of Relation) (1990)
WEEK 6: MAKING A ‘CENE (ENDS OF THE WORLD)
Kathryn Yusoff—A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None (2018), Ch. 2: Golden Spikes and Dubious Origins (23-64)
Jason W. Moore—The Capitalocene, Part I: On the nature and origins of our ecological crisis. (2017)
WEEK 7: INDIGENOUS (ANTI)FUTURITIES
Eve Tuck & K. Wayne Yang—Decolonization is not a Metaphor (2012)
Mark Rifkin—Beyond Settler Time (2017), Ch. 1: Indigenous Orientations (1-47)
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson—Dancing on our Turtle’s Back (2011), Ch. 2: Theorizing Resurgence from within Nishnaabeg Thought (31-47) AND Ch. 4: Niimtoowaad mikinaag gijiying bakonaan (Dancing on Our Turtle’s Back): Aandisokaanan and Resurgence (65-83).
(ALL) Rethinking the Apocalpyse: An Indigenous Anti-Futurist Manifesto (2020)
WEEK 8: AFROFUTURISM/AFROPESSIMISM
Zakiyyah Iman Jackson—Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World (2020), Ch. 1 (45-82)
Katherine McKittrick—Dear Science and Other Stories (2021): Footnotes (Books and Papers Scattered about the Floor) (14-34) AND The Smallest Cell Remembers a Sound (35-57) AND Consciousness (Feeling like, Feeling like This) (58-70)
WEEK 9: MACHINIC CAPTURE
Sun-Ha Hong—Technologies of Speculation (2020), Ch. 4: Data’s Intimacy (76-113)
Mark B. N. Hansen—Our Predictive Condition; or, Prediction in the Wild (from The Nonhuman Turn) (2015)
(ALL) Gilles Deleuze—Postscript for Societies of Control (1990)
WEEK 10: AGENCY
Thomas Metzinger—The Ego Tunnel (2009), Ch. 4: From Ownership to Agency to Free Will AND Ch. 5: Philosophical Psychonautics: What Can We Learn from Lucid Dreaming? (115-148)
Jonathan Beller—The World Computer (2021), Ch. 1: The Computational Unconscious—Technology as a Racial Formation (63-97)
Karen Barad—Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter (2003)
WEEK 11: AFFECT, THE TRANSPERSONAL, THE INHUMAN
Fred Moten / Stefano Harney—The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study (2013), Ch. 2. The University and the Undercommons (22-43) AND Ch. 4: Debt and Study (58-68).
Shane Denson—Discorrelated Images (2020), Ch. 5: The Horrors of Discorrelation (153-192)
Teresa Brennan—The Transmission of Affect (2004), Ch. 4: The New Paradigm