Here you can find a list of previous texts we’ve read and discussed as a group.
2025
March – Matteo Pasquinelli, ‘Introduction: AI as Division of Labour’ from The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence (2023).
February – Julie Burelle, ‘Introduction: Nation, Spectacle, and Colliding Narratives’ from Encounters on Contested Lands: Indigenous Performances of Sovereignty and Nationhood in Québec (2018)
January – Patrick Wolfe, ‘Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native’, Journal of Genocide Research 8:4, 2006, p. 387-409.
2024
December – Muhannad Ayyash, ‘Colonial Racial Capitalism and Violence: Theorising the Relationship between Empire and Israeli Settler Colonialism’, Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies 23:2, 2024, p.205-220.
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).