Reading List
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About
In fall of 2023, the CRACS Co-Lab hosted a small interdisciplinary reading group to discuss selected texts around the theme of Global Feminist Critique of Capital centering on the work of psychoanalyst and political philosopher, Frantz Fanon, political theorist Sylvia Federici, black studies philosopher Hortense Spillers and postcolonial theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Our reading group will culminate with a 2-day workshop in Spring 2024 organized around three sessions, in which the participants will be asked to reflect on how Fanon’s, Spivak’s Federici’s, and Spillers’ contributions help them to advance their own work on themes that have become key to critical thinking about capitalism in the past 15 years or so, namely debt, reparations and rebelry.
The reading group is currently by invitation only. Please look out for public events on our events page.
Reading List
September
Theory
Frantz Fanon, Wretched of the Earth (widely available on public domain) | “Concerning Violence” only, pgs. 35-106
Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch (widely available on public domain) | Chapters 2 & 5 only, pgs. 61-132, 219-243
Silvia Federici | “Women, Money and Debt: Notes for a Feminist Reappropriation Movement”
Praxis
Watch: Mia Mottley, Prime Minister of Barbados at the Opening of the #COP27 World Leaders Summit
October
Theory
Hortense Spillers | “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book”
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak | “Scattered Speculations on the Question of Value”
Shailaja Paik, The Vulgarity of Caste | Chapter 3 only, pgs. 125-175
Praxis