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Here you can find a list of previous texts we’ve read and discussed as a group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

March – Ellen Meiksins Wood, ‘The separation of the “economic” and the “political” in capitalism’ from Democracy Against Capitalism<\/em> (1995).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

January – Karl Marx, ‘The Paris Commune<\/a>‘ from The Civil War in France<\/em> (1871).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

November – David Lloyd and Paul Thomas, ‘The Culture of the Spectacle’ from Culture and the State<\/em> (1998).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

October – John Holloway and Sol Picciotto, \u2018Towards a Materialist Theory of the State\u2019 from State and Capital: a Marxist Debate<\/em> (1979)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

September – Stuart Hall, ‘The State In Question<\/a>‘ from The Idea of the Modern State<\/em> (1984)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

July – Mathilde Pavis, \u2018Rebalancing our regulatory response to Deepfakes with performers\u2019 rights\u2019 (Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 2021, 27(4) 974\u2013998); Derek Miller, \u2018Introduction: Copyright, Commodification, and Performance\u2019 from Copyright and the Value of Performance, 1770\u20131911<\/em>, 2017, p. 1-28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

May – Holly Lewis, ‘Toward AI Realism: Opening Notes on Machine Learning and Our Collective Future<\/a>‘, Spectre Journal<\/em>, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

April – Catie Cuan, Douglas Eacho & Sydney Skybetter, ‘Still Exhausted: Introduction’ TDR<\/em> 68:1, 2024, p. 10-18; Marc-Andr\u00e9 Cossette & Chris Salter, ‘Performing AI: Labor and Complexity on the Contemporary Stage’, TDR<\/em> 68:1, 2024, p. 70-86.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

March – Matteo Pasquinelli, ‘Introduction: AI as Division of Labour’ from The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence <\/em>(2023).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

February – Julie Burelle, ‘Introduction: Nation, Spectacle, and Colliding Narratives’ from Encounters on Contested Lands: Indigenous Performances of Sovereignty and Nationhood in Qu\u00e9bec <\/em>(2018)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

January – Patrick Wolfe, ‘Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native’, Journal of Genocide Research<\/em> 8:4, 2006, p. 387-409.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

December – Muhannad Ayyash, ‘Colonial Racial Capitalism and Violence: Theorising the Relationship between Empire and Israeli Settler Colonialism’, Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies <\/em>23:2, 2024, p.205-220.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

November – Nandita Sharma, ‘The National Politics of Separation’ (p. 1-35) from Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants<\/em> (2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

October – Sai Englert, ‘Introduction’ (p. 1-25) from Settler Colonialism<\/em> (2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

June – Joseph Roach, ‘Preface’ (p. 11-17) and ‘Diderot’ (p. 116-160) from The Player’s Passion: Studies in the Science of Acting<\/em> (1993).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/em> (1991).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

April – Elin Diamond, ‘Brechtian Theory\/Feminist Theory: Toward a Gestic Feminist Criticism’, TDR<\/em> 32:1, 1988, p. 82-94.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

March – Joseph Roach, ‘Theatre History and the Ideology of the Aesthetic’, Theatre Journal<\/em> 41:2, 1989, p. 155-168.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

February – Raymond Williams, ”Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory’, New Left Review<\/em> 1:82, 1973.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

January –  Louis Althusser, ‘On Ideology’ (p. 171-207) from On the Reproduction of Capitalism: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses<\/em> (2014 [1971]).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

December – S\u00f8ren Mau, ‘Introduction’ (p. 1-19) from Mute Compulsion: A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital<\/em> (2023).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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