Required books
Bargu, Banu. Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons. Columbia University Press, 2016.
Butler, Judith. Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly. Harvard University Press, 2015.
El-Ariss, Tarek. Leaks, Hacks, and Scandal: Arab Culture in the Digital Age. Princeton University Press, 2019.
Harcourt, Bernard E. Critique & Praxis: A Pure Theory of Illusions, Values, and Tactics, and an Answer to the Question: “What Is To Be Done?” Open Review Edition: First draft dated September 1, 2018.
Hardt, Michael and Antonio Negri. Commonwealth. Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2011.
Harney, Stefano and Fred Moten. The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study. Minor Compositions, 2013.
Invisible Committee. Now. Tr. Robert Edward Hurley, Semiotext(e), 2017.
Latour, Bruno. Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climactic Regime. Polity, 2018.
Mouffe, Chantal. For a Left Populism. Verso Books, 2018.
Sanders, Bernard. Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution. Henry Holt & Company, 2017.
On-line resources
Adorno, Theodor. “Marginalia to Theory and Praxis.” Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords. Columbia University Press, 2005. pp. 259-278.
Arendt, Hannah. “Truth and Politics.” The New Yorker, Feb. 25, 1967.
Harcourt, Bernard E. 2018. Critique & Praxis: A Pure Theory of Illusions, Values, and Tactics, and an Answer to the Question: “What Is To Be Done?” New York: Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought. Open Review Edition: First draft dated September 1, 2018.
Hardt, Michael and Antonio Negri. Assembly. Oxford Books, 2017. Chapter 6.
Hardt, Michael and Antonio Negri. Commonwealth. Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2011. Preface, chapters 1.1, 1.2, 6.2, and 6.3.
Indivisible. “A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda“. Indivisible.com, 2016.
Selections from these books (will be available on reserve)
Bernstein, Richard. Praxis and Action: Contemporary Philosophies of Human Activity. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1971 (pp. ix-83).
Fair Hearing: The Alt-Right in the Words of its Members and Leaders. Ed. George T. Shaw. Arktos Media, 2018.
Faye, Guillaume. Why We Fight: Manifesto of the European Resistance. Arktos Media, 2011.
Friberg, Daniel. The Real Right Returns: A Handbook for the True Opposition. Arktos Media, 2015.
Lobkowicz, Nikolaus. Theory and Practice: History of a Concept from Aristotle to Marx. University of Notre Dame Press, 1967. (pp. 3-15, 109-139)
Marcuse, Herbert. One Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society. Beacon Press, 1991. (Part III, “The Chance of the Alternatives,” pp. 203 – 257 (pp. 205-261 in the Routledge classics edition 2002)).
The Idea of Communism. Volumes 1, 2, and 3. Eds. Slavoj Žižek et al. Verso Books, 2010-2016 (selections)
Optional books
Bey, Hakim. T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism. Autonomedia, 2004.
Clover, Joshua. Riot. Strike. Riot.: The New Era of Uprisings. Verso, 2016.
Dardot, Pierre and Christian Laval. Commun essai sur la révolution au XXIe siècle. La Fabrique, 2017.
Laclau, Ernesto. On Populist Reason. Verso, 2007.