Digital Resources

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 Link opens in a new window(E.P Thompson's critique of Althusser and structuralist Marxism)
• Robin Blackburn, Edward Thompson and the New LeftLink opens in a new window
• A Brief History of the New Left ReviewLink opens in a new window
• Scott Hamilton, The Crisis of Theory: E.P. Thompson, the New Left and Postwar British PoliticsLink opens in a new window
• E.P. Thompson on the Late Show (BBC) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2CN3BerJdU

Adorno

• Brian O'Connor, AdornoLink opens in a new window
• Andrew Bowie, Adorno and the Ends of PhilosophyLink opens in a new window
• ed. Tom Huhn, The Cambridge Companion to AdornoLink opens in a new window
• ed. Donald Burke, Adorno and the Need in Thinking: New Critical EssaysLink opens in a new window

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 InertiaLink opens in a new window
• Silvia Federici, Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction and Feminist StruggleLink opens in a new window

Hélène Cixous

• Hélène Cixous: "I say Allegmagne" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOwjIwIpRvw
• The Helene Cixous ReaderLink opens in a new window
• White Ink: Interviews on Sex, Text and PoliticsLink opens in a new window

Fredric Jameson

• The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic ActLink opens in a new window
• Tobert T. Tally Jr. Fredric Jameson: The Project of Dialectical CriticismLink opens in a new window
• "An American Utopia: Fredric Jameson in Conversation"Link opens in a new window
• Sean Homer, Fredric Jameson: Marxism, Hermeneutics, PostmodernismLink opens in a new window

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 ResistanceLink opens in a new window
• Anita Brady and Tony Schirato, Understanding Judith ButlerLink opens in a new window 
• Teju Cole, "Unmournable Bodies" https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/unmournable-bodies

Rob Nixon

• ed. Elizabeth DeLoughrey and George B. Handley, Postcolonial EcologiesLink opens in a new window
• ed. Graham Huggan and Helen Tiffin Postcolonial EcocriticismLink opens in a new window
• ed. Serpil Oppermann and Serenella Iovino Environmental Humanities: Voices from the AnthropoceneLink opens in a new window

Kate Soper

• Stacy Alimo, Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material SelfLink opens in a new window
• Ursula K. Heise, Sense of Place and Sense of PlanetLink opens in a new window
• Maria Mies, Vandana Shiva EcofeminismLink opens in a new window

Mike Davis, Ursula Heise, Environmental Humanities

• Routledge Companion to the Environmental HumanitiesLink opens in a new window
• Wolfgang Streeck, "How Will Capitalism End?" New Left Review Link opens in a new windowMay June 2014Link opens in a new window
• Robert S. Emmett, The Environmental Humanities: A Critical IntroductionLink opens in a new window

Wang Hui

• "After the Party: An Interview with Wang Hui"Link opens in a new window
• "Contradiction, Systemic Crisis and Direction for Change: An Interview with Wang Hui"Link opens in a new window
• 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