Here you can find a list of previous texts we’ve read and discussed as a group.
2024
November – Nandita Sharma, ‘The National Politics of Separation’ (p. 1-35) from Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants (2020).
October – Sai Englert, ‘Introduction’ (p. 1-25) from Settler Colonialism (2022).
June – Joseph Roach, ‘Preface’ (p. 11-17) and ‘Diderot’ (p. 116-160) from The Player’s Passion: Studies in the Science of Acting (1993).
May – Tracy C. Davis, ‘The Socioeconomic Organisation of the Theatre’ (p. 3-35) from Victorian Actresses as Working Women: Their Social Identity in Victorian Culture (1991).
April – Elin Diamond, ‘Brechtian Theory/Feminist Theory: Toward a Gestic Feminist Criticism’, TDR 32:1, 1988, p. 82-94.
March – Joseph Roach, ‘Theatre History and the Ideology of the Aesthetic’, Theatre Journal 41:2, 1989, p. 155-168.
February – Raymond Williams, ”Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory’, New Left Review 1:82, 1973.
January – Louis Althusser, ‘On Ideology’ (p. 171-207) from On the Reproduction of Capitalism: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (2014 [1971]).
2023
December – Søren Mau, ‘Introduction’ (p. 1-19) from Mute Compulsion: A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital (2023).