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Syllabus

Indicative Syllabus:

Week 1:

Introduction

Week 2:

  1. Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities(selection)
  2. Georg Lukacs, Theory of the Novel (selection)
  3. Immanuel Wallerstein, Modern World-System IV(selection)
  4. Marx and Engels, The German Ideology (selection)

Week 3:

  1. Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: Birth of the Prison
  2. Anne Schwan and Stephen Shapiro, How to Read Foucault’s Discipline and Punish

Week 4:

  1. Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: Birth of the Prison
  2. Anne Schwan and Stephen Shapiro, How to Read Foucault’s Discipline and Punish

Week 5:

  1. David Harvey, Neoliberalism(selection)
  2. Philip Mirowoski, Never Let a Good Crisis Go To Waste(selection)
  3. Michel Foucault, Birth of Biopolitics(selection)

Week 6:

Reading Week

Week 7:

  1. Charles Duhigg, “How Companies Learn Your Secrets"
  2. Gilles Deleuze “Postscript on Societies of Control”
  3. Frank Pasquale, Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms that Control Society & Money (selection)
  4. Antoinette Rouvroy, “The end(s) of critique: data-behaviourism vs. due-process”

Week 8:

  1. Walter Benjamin, “Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”
  2. Theodore Adorno, on cultural industry
  3. Melinda Cooper, Life as Surplus: Biotechnology and Capitalism in the Neoliberal Era(selection)
  4. Mario Carpo, The Algorithm and the Alphabet(selection)

Week 9:

  1. Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (selection)
  2. Nick Srnicek, Platform Capitalism (selection)
  3. Karen Gregory, “In the Cards: From Hearing ‘Things’ to Human Capital.”

Week 10:

  1. John Cheney-Lippold, We Are Data: Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves (selection)
  2. Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society (selection) and Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power(selection)
  3. Cathy O’Neil, Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (selection)
  4. Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (selection)