Lecture 1: What is Postcapitalism?
- Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams, “Post-Work Imaginaries” in Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and World Without Work (2015), p.107-127 (also read “Conclusion”, pp.175-183)
- J.K. Gibson-Graham, “Affects and Emotions for a Postcapitalist Politics” in A Post-Capitalist Politics (2006), pp.1-22
- Paul Mason, “The Prophets of Postcapitalism” in PostCapitalism: A Guide to our Future (2015), pp.109-146
Lecture 2: “A Social and Psychic Revolution of Almost Inconceivable Magnitude”: Countercultural Bohemia as Prefiguration
- Ellen Willis, “The Family: Love it or Leave it”, in Beginning to See the Light: Sex, Hope and Rock-and Roll (2012), pp.149-168
- Herbert Marcuse, “The Dialectic of Civilization” in Eros and Civilization (1972), pp.68-83
- Freud, Civilization and its Discontents (1929)
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