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Mark Fisher

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Postcapitalist Desire VC71093A/B

Tutor : Mark Fisher (m.fisher@gold.ac.uk)

1. What is Postcapitalism? (3 items)

Inventing the future: postcapitalism and a world without work - Nick Srnicek, Alex Williams,
2015
Book | Essential | "Post-Work Imaginaries" and "Comclusion", pp. 107-127 and 175-183

Affects and Emotions for a Postcapitalist Politics - J.K. Gibson-Graham

Chapter | Essential

The Prophets of Postcapitalism - P. Mason

Chapter | Essential

2. “A social and psychic revolution of almost inconceivable magnitude”:

Countercultural Bohemia as prefiguration (2 items)
The Family : Love it or Leave it - Ellen Willis
Chapter | Essential

The Dialectic of Civilization - Herbert Marcuse, 1972

Chapter | Essential

3. From Class Consciousness to Group Consciousness (2 items)

The Standpoint of the Proletariat - Georg Lukacs
Chapter | Essential

The Feminist Standpoint : Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical
Materialism - Nancy C. M. Hartsock
Chapter | Essential

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4. "Union Power and Soul Power" (1 items)

Old Fashioned Heroes of the New Working Class - J. Cowie
Chapter | Essential

5. Libidinal Marxism (1 items)

The Desire Named Marx - Jean-François Lyotard, 1993
Chapter | Essential

6. Autonomia and the Refusal of Work (2 items)

Wages Against Housework - Silvia Federici
Chapter | Essential

The Refusal of Work - N. Thoburn

Chapter | Essential

7. The Destruction of Democratic Socialism and the Origins of

Neoliberalism: The Case of Chile (2 items)
States of Shock : The Bloody Birth of the Counterrevolution - Naomi Klein
Chapter | Essential

Cybernetics and Socialism - Eden Medina

Chapter | Essential

8. The Invention of the Middle (2 items)

Marx/Nietzsche/Freud/Nixon - Carl Freedman
Chapter | Essential

Hardhats Versus Elite Doves: Consolidation of the Image - Penny Lewis

Chapter | Essential

9. Post-Fordism and New Times (2 items)

The Meaning of New Times - Stuart Hall, 1989
Chapter | Essential

A grammar of the multitude: for an analysis of contemporary forms of life - Paolo Virno,
2003
Book | Essential | All sections from “Beyond the coupling of the terms Fear/ Anguish”
through to “Intellect as Score”, pp. 31-66

10. Technofeminism / Cyberfeminism (2 items)

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The Two Modes of Cultural History - Shulamith Firestone

Chapter | Essential

Zeros + ones: digital women + the new technoculture - Sadie Plant, 1998
Book | Essential | All sections from “Cyborg Manifestos” through to “Cocoons”, pp.
58-81.

11. Accelerationism (2 items)

Utopia as Replication - F. Jameson
Chapter | Essential

Machinic Desire - Nick Land

Chapter | Essential

12. The Network and its Discontents (1): Hardt and Negri (1 items)

Beyond Capital ? - M. Hardt A. Negri

Chapter | Essential

13. The Network and its Discontents (2) Peer to Peer (2 items)

Peer to Peer : From Technology to Politics - M. Bauwens

Chapter | Essential

The Common and the Commons - Jodi Dean

Chapter | Essential

14. Touchscreen Capture (2 items)

Symbolic exchange and death - Jean Baudrillard, 1993
Book | Essential | “The Tactile and the Digital” and “The Hyperrealism of Simulation”,
pp. 61-75

Info-Labor and 'Precarization' - Franco 'Bifo' Berardi

Chapter | Essential

15. Reinventing Prometheus (2 items)

Manifesto on Xenofeminism : A Politics for Alienation - Laboria Cuboniks, 2015
Website | Essential

Promethean Labours and Domestic Realism - Helen Hester

Article | Essential

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