The Authority Research Network spent seven days in Alfriston from November 1st-9th revisiting issues we tackled in the early days of the network, around power, authority, alienation and transcendence.
The readings we discussed included:
Monday - Alienation
The readings we discussed included:
Monday - Alienation
- Marx, "Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844"
- Arendt, Chap. 7 of The Human Condition.
- Kathi Weeks “Life within and against Work: Affective labor, feminist critique, and post-Fordist politics”.
- Dyer-Witherford “21st Century Species Being”
- Stavrides “Contested Urban Rhythms”
- Lukacs, Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat
TUESDAY - Transcendence
WEDNESDAY – Image
- Eve Sedgwick “The Pedagogy of Buddhism”
- Walter Benjamin “On the Concept of History”
- Lauren Berlant “Cruel optimism”
- Susan Buck-Morss “Dialetics of Seeing” (excerpts)
WEDNESDAY – Image
- Susan Buck-Morss “ Visual Empire: The Sovereign Icon”
- Walter Benjamin, Work of Art Essay.
- Walter Benjamin, “Surrealism: The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia”
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