Resources

WEEK 2: CAPITALISM 1

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)

Jonathan Crary—Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World (2022), PART 3

(ALL) Gilles Deleuze—Postscript for Societies of Control (1990)

WEEK 3: BODYMINDS 1

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).

Laboria Cuboniks—Xenofeminist Manifesto: A Politics For Alienation (2015) (integral)

Paul (Beatriz) Preciado—Testo Junkie (2013), Ch. 2: The Pharmacopornographic Era (23-54) AND  Ch. 4: History of Technosexuality (68-81) 

Virginie Despentes—King Kong Theory (2006)

WEEK 4: TACTICS 1

Anna Watkins Fisher—The Play in the System: The Art of Parasitical Resistance (2020), INTRODUCTION: Towards a Theory of Parasitical Resistance (1-38)

Robert C.H. Chia & Robin Holt—Strategy Without Design (2009), Ch. 7: The Silent Efficacy of Indirect Action (186-208)

(ALL) Michel Serres—Theory of the Quasi-Object (from The Parasite (1980), 224-234)

Chris Kraus—I Love Dick (1997)

WEEK 5: BLACKNESS INDIGENEITY 1

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)

Vanessa Watts—Indigenous place-thought & agency amongst humans and non-humans (First Woman and Sky Woman go on a European world tour!) (2013)

Alexander Weheliye—Habeas Viscus (2014), Ch. 1: Blackness: The Human (17-32)

Alexis Pauline Gumbs—Dub: Finding Ceremony (2019)

READING BREAK

WEEK 6: AI 1

CHIMERAS: Inventory of Synthetic Cognition (2022) (see GDoc)

THESE TERMS: Machine Perception, Technogenesis, Reptile Brain, Swarm Intelligence, Anthropomorphic Attachments, Hybrid Agency, Abductive Reasoning, Learners, Machine Philosophy, Natural Stupidity, Safety, Indigenous AI, Procedural Animism, Interspecies Semiotics, Digital Legacy, Radical Otherness, Crip AI, Compulsory Able-bodiedness, The Problem of Scale, Bias, Agential Assemblage, Error, Algorithmic Rating, Parasemiotic Synthesis, 3D Printed Training Data, Techno Racial Capitalism, Coltan, Microwork Platforms, Post-post-work, Heptagon of Resistances, Capitalism, Toy Model AGI, Tactical AI, Tachyonic Data, Hormone Hyperobject, Sibyl Society, Meglanguages, A Ventriloquist’s Vernacular, Groundlessness, AGI as the Outside View of the Human, Darkside Empathy, Infrastructural Uncanny, Epinumeric Trauma, Deepfakes, Cyberwar, Denial of Attention Attack, Creative AI, Artificial Welfare, Artificial Conviviality

K. Allado McDowell—Pharmako-AI (2020)

WEEK 7: CAPITALISM 2

Guy Debord—The Society of the Spectacle (1967), Sections 1, 6 & 8

McKenzie Wark—Capital is Dead (2018), Ch. 2: Capitalism—Or Worse? (39-59) 

Mochu—Bezoar Delinqxenz (2023)

WEEK 8: TACTICS 2

Book of Anonymity: Dual Reality: (Un)Observed Magic in the Workplace (326-335) AND Speak Their Endless Names (424-432) (2021)

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).

Teresa Brennan—The Transmission of Affect (2004), Ch. 4: The New Paradigm (74-96)

(ALL) Édouard Glissant—For Opacity (from Poetics of Relation) (1990)

Kathy Acker—Great Expectations (1982)

Monique Wittig—Les Guérillères (1969)

WEEK 9: BODYMINDS 2

Alison Kafer—Feminist Queer Crip (2013), Ch. 1: Time for Disability Studies and a Future for Crips (25-46)

Jack Halberstam—Trans*  (2019), Ch. 4: Trans* Generations (63-83)

Sun-Ha Hong—Technologies of Speculation (2020), Ch. 4: Data’s Intimacy (76-113)

Amy Berkowitz—Tender Points (2015)

KJ Cerankowski—Suture: Trauma and Trans Becoming (2021)

WEEK 10: BLACKNESS INDIGENEITY 2

Eve Tuck & K. Wayne Yang—Decolonization is not a Metaphor (2012)

Kathryn Yusoff—A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None (2018), Ch. 2: Golden Spikes and Dubious Origins (23-64)

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).

Saidiya Hartman—Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments (2019)

Audre Lorde—ZAMI, A New Spelling of My Name, a Biomythography (1982)

WEEK 11: AI 2

Mark B. N. Hansen—Our Predictive Condition; or, Prediction in the Wild (2015) (from The Nonhuman Turn, 101-138) 

Jonathan Beller—The World Computer (2021), Ch. 1: The Computational Unconscious—Technology as a Racial Formation (63-97) 

Hito Steyerl—Duty Free Art (2017), Ch. 4: Proxy Politics: Signal and Noise AND Ch. 5: A Sea of Data: Apophenia and Pattern (Mis-)Recognition

Pedro Neves Marques—YWY, Searching for a Character Between Future Worlds (2022)