On this page you will find a list of online resources that may be useful as you re-read the theorists on this module in preparation for your final essays. Please note that there are many more ebooks and articles available on specific texts and topics available through the library.

For the books and journals, most of the links below will take you to the Library catalogue page so you can log in and read it; some will open PDFs of the books themselves.

Marx

• David Harvey, A Companion to Marx's Capital
• David Harvey, Reading Marx's Capital (online lectures)
• Stephen Shapiro, How To Read Marx's Capital
• Peter Singer, Marx: A Very Short Introduction
• Nicole Pepperell, Disassembling Capital

Foucault

• Anne Schwan and Stephen Shapiro, How to Read Foucault's Discipline and Punish
• Stephen Shapiro, Michel Foucault's Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison; Reader/Workbook
• Douglas Kellner, 'Foucault and the Critique of Modernity'
• Mark G. E. Kelly, The Political Philosophy of Michel Foucault
• Nancy Fraser, 'From Discipline to Flexibilization? Rereading Foucault in the Shadow of Globalization'
• Lisa Downing (ed.) After Foucault: Culture, Theory, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century

Benjamin

• Susan Buck-Morss, ‘Aesthetics and Anaesthetics: Walter Benjamin’s Artwork Essay, Reconsidered'
• Michael Löwy, Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin's On the Concept of History
• Michael Löwy, 'Religion, Utopia and Counter-Modernity: The Allegory of the Angel of History in Walter Benjamin'
• Howard Eiland, 'Reception in Distraction'
• Rodolphe Gasché,'The Deepening of Apperception: On Walter Benjamin's Theory of Film'
• Graeme Gilloch, Myth and Metropolis: Walter Benjamin and the City
• Timothy Bahti, 'History as Rhetorical Enactment: Walter Benjamin's Theses "On the Concept of History"'
• S. D. Chrostowska, ‘Angelus Novus: Angst of History’

Habermas

• Craig Calhoun (ed.), Habermas and the Public Sphere
• Michael Warner, 'Publics and Counterpublics'
• Nancy Fraser, 'Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy
• Johanna Meehan (ed.), Feminists Read Habermas
• Nancy Fraser, 'Transnationalizing the Public Sphere'

E.P. Thompson

• The Poverty of Theory (E.P Thompson's critique of Althusser and structuralist Marxism)
• Robin Blackburn, Edward Thompson and the New Left
• A Brief History of the New Left Review
• Scott Hamilton, The Crisis of Theory: E.P. Thompson, the New Left and Postwar British Politics
• E.P. Thompson on the Late Show (BBC) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2CN3BerJdU

Adorno

• Brian O'Connor, Adorno
• Andrew Bowie, Adorno and the Ends of Philosophy
• ed. Tom Huhn, The Cambridge Companion to Adorno
• ed. Donald Burke, Adorno and the Need in Thinking: New Critical Essays

Work, Free Time (David Graeber, Melissa Gregg, Frigga Haug)

• David Graeber on 'Bullshit jobs' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIctCDYv7Yg
• Ivor Southwood, Non-Stop Inertia
• Silvia Federici, Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction and Feminist Struggle

Hélène Cixous

• Hélène Cixous: "I say Allegmagne" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOwjIwIpRvw
• The Helene Cixous Reader
• White Ink: Interviews on Sex, Text and Politics

Fredric Jameson

• The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act
• Tobert T. Tally Jr. Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectical Criticism
• "An American Utopia: Fredric Jameson in Conversation"
• Sean Homer, Fredric Jameson: Marxism, Hermeneutics, Postmodernism

Judith Butler

• Judith Butler: "Legal Violence: An Ethical and Political Critique" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coBcQajx18I
• ed. Judith Butler, Zeynep Gambetti, and Leticia Sabsay, Vulnerability in Resistance
• Anita Brady and Tony Schirato, Understanding Judith Butler 
• Teju Cole, "Unmournable Bodies" https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/unmournable-bodies

Rob Nixon

• ed. Elizabeth DeLoughrey and George B. Handley, Postcolonial Ecologies
• ed. Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin Postcolonial Ecocriticism
• ed. Serpil Oppermann and Serenella Iovino Environmental Humanities: Voices from the Anthropocene

Kate Soper

• Stacy Alimo, Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self
• Ursula K. Heise, Sense of Place and Sense of Planet
• Maria Mies, Vandana Shiva Ecofeminism

Mike Davis, Ursula Heise, Environmental Humanities

• Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities
• Wolfgang Streeck, "How Will Capitalism End?" New Left Review May June 2014
• Robert S. Emmett, The Environmental Humanities: A Critical Introduction

Wang Hui

• "After the Party: An Interview with Wang Hui"
• "Contradiction, Systemic Crisis and Direction for Change: An Interview with Wang Hui"
• Wang Hui: "China and the Limits of Modernity" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C0CDQ5OdQc

More to follow...

Useful journals:

• Mediations
• Historical Materialism
• Theory & Event
• Angelaki
• Marxist Internet Archive
• New Left Review