Readings and bibliography

- READINGS FOR THE ENTIRE COURSE:

Crisis of Neoliberalism (A French Keynesian Marxist book to argue with)

- READINGS FOR EACH SESSION

These can only be small selections from immense worlds of history. Mainly they are primary documents of the periods considered. Peruse them before each meeting, read the ones that interest you most. Suggest others if you feel it.

Oct 1, Crisis of the 1930s:

Antonio Gramsci: Americanism and Fordism

William Weinstone: The Great Sit-Down Strike (read online here)

The Technocrats’ Magazine

Rexford Tugwell on TVA

Scott Lash and John Urry: The End of Organized Capitalism (excerpts)

(Nota bene: Lash and Urry’s book tells most about what it claims has ended! That is, organized capitalism. Amazing bibliography in the notes. The pages show up at different sizes but they read perfectly in full screen and should print out fine.)

Oct. 15, Keynesian Fordism:

J.K. Galbraith, The New Industrial State (excerpts)

Toni Negri: Keynes and the Capitalist Theory of the State

James Boggs, The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker’s Notebook (ch. 1 & 2)

Peter Wollen, Raiding the Icebox (chapter on Pollock’s transformation from 1930s to 50s)

Oct. 29, 1968: Political Crisis:

Che Guevara, Message to the Tricontinental

Amilcar Cabral, The Weapon of Theory

Helen Garvy, Rebels with a Cause (video on SDS) plus the website of the film (with speeches of Potter and Oglesby)

MDS, Welfare: The Exterminating Angel

Kirkpatrick Sale, SDS (the most complete book on the organization)

SNCC, The Basis of Black Power

Eyes on the Prize 7: The Time Has Come (with Stokely Carmichael/Kwame Ture on Black Power)

SDS, Resolution on SNCC

Greg Calvert, In White America: Liberal Conscience vs. Radical Consciousness

Carl Davidson, The Multiversity: Crucible of the New Working Class

–> Download the whole collection of SDS lost writings for 5 bucks here

Newsreel collective, Columbia Revolt, part 1 & part 2 (plus viewpoint from an adjunct professor here)

Barbara and John Ehrenreich, “The Professional-Managerial Class,” part 1 and part 2

The San Francisco State College Strike Collection (amazing archive, goes with the recording of Sarah Lewison’s presentation)

Fragments of a Strike (narrative montage by Sarah L)

Christopher Newfield, Unmaking the Public University (chapters 1 & 2)

Murray Rothbard, The Great Society: A Libertarian Critique

Norman Podhoretz, The Adversary Culture (from The New Class?)

Nov. 5: Meet the Reactionaries

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Between Two Ages: America in the Technetronic Era

Trilateral Commision, The Crisis of Democracy

Michael Hudson, Super Imperialism: The Origin and Fundamentals of U.S. World Dominance

Nov. 19: The Financial Turn

David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism

Peter Gowan, The Global Gamble

Alex Gibney, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

Brian Holmes, The Flexible Personality

Nov. 19, 3-4 PM. Foreign Trade zones and Enterprise Zones

Rozalinda Borcila’s rough notes : Special Economic Zones in the US (in-progress)

Rozalinda Borcila, Riding the Zone, final draft for MRCC/Compass Group publication on the radical Midwest (out summer 2012 we hope) - feedback welcome

Dara Orenstein, Offshore Onshore, this is the web archive of Orenstein’s research into the cultural history of the FTZ (under construction) – for primary documents related to the first FTZ, WPA posters and so on.

Brian Holmes, Do Containers Dream of Electric People?

Warehouse Workers for Justice, Bad Jobs in Goods Movement

Boston Consulting Group, Made in America, Again

Dec. 3: Profanity and the Financial Markets

Immanuel Wallerstein, The Contradictions of the Arab Spring

Photos of UBS Trading Floor in Stamford, CT

Michel Foucault, Confession of the Flesh (interview on the apparatus)

Knorr Cetina & Bruegger, Traders’ Engagement with Markets: A Postsocial Relationship

Giorgio Agamben, In Praise of Profanation

Interview with Vlad Teichberg

William I. Robinson, Global rebellion: The coming chaos?

Mark LeVine, Tahrir’s late night conversations