Seminar Schedule and Readings

August 28th | Week One

Introduction to seminar

Beginning Threads

September 4th | Week Two

Approximately 90 pages

Marta Malo, “Common Notions, part 1: Workers’ inquiry, Co-research, Consciousness Raising”

(Written for the preface of Common Notions: Experiences and Essays at the Intersection of Research and Militancy, Madrid, Spain, 2004)

http://eipcp.net/transversal/0406/malo/en/print (9 pages)

Marta Malo, “Common Notions, part 2: Institutional Analysis, Participatory Action-Research, Militant Research” (2006)

http://eipcp.net/transversal/0707/malo/en (9 pages, 20 pages combined)

Gigi Roggero, “Brief relation about meaning, methods and examples of militant investigation and co-research as political action” (2005)

http://www.precarity-map.net/coresearch_method.html (2 pages)

Ed Emory, “No Politics Without Inquiry: A Proposal for a Class Composition Inquiry Project 1996-7” (Originally in: Common Sense, No. 18, December 1995)

http://www.wildcat-www.de/en/material/cs18inqu.htm (10 pages)

Harry Cleaver, Reading Capital Politically (2000 [1979])

Preface, pp. 9-21, especially 14-20 and Introduction, pp. 23-77 (60 pages)

Karl Marx, “Worker’s Inquiry” (1880)

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/04/20.htm (7 pages)

Suggested:

Fredrich Engels, “The Conditions of the Working Class in England in 1844” (1844)

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/condition-working-class/index.htm

E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (excerpts)

The rest of the book Reading Capital Politically by Harry Cleaver

Sebastiao Salgado, Workers: An Archaeology of the Industrial Age (as an example of “militant photography”)

http://www.photography-now.info/sebastiao_salgado/

Nate Hawthorne, “What in the hell is Militant Research?” (2006)

http://whatinthehell.blogsome.com/2006/08/16/is-militant-research-3/#more-293 (10 pages)

CLR James, Johnson-Forest Tendency, Martin Glaberman

September 11th | Week Three:

Approximately 110 pages (plus selections TBA “Wartime Strikes”)

Martin Glaberman, “Different Strata of the Working Class” (1947)

http://www.marxists.org/archive/glaberman/1947/08/strata.htm (9 pages)

The Johnson-Forest Tendency, “The American Worker” (1947)

http://www.prole.info/pdfs/americanworker.pdf (50 pages)

“The American Worker, Part Two: The Reconstruction of Society”

http://www.prole.info/texts/americanworker2.html (25 pages)

CLR James, Raya Dunayevskaya, State Capitalism and World Revolution (1950)

http://www.marxists.org/archive/james-clr/works/1950/08/state-capitalism.htm (17 pages)

Martin Glaberman, “Ghetto Riots in the USA” (Winter 1965)

http://www.marxists.org/archive/glaberman/1965/xx/ghetto.htm (2 pages)

Martin Glaberman, Wartime Strikes: The Struggle Against the No-Strike Pledge in the UAW During WWII (Detroit: Bewick Editions, 1980)

[Selections, PDF]

George Rawick, Working Class Self-Activity, Radical America, Vol.3, no.2 (Mar.-Apr. 1969)

http://www.marxists.org/archive/rawick/1969/xx/self.html (10 pages)

Suggested:

George Rawick, From Sunup to Sundown (1972)

Martin Glaberman, “Punching Out” (1952)

CLR James with Martin Glaberman, Marxism and Intellectuals (1962)

http://www.marxists.org/archive/james-clr/works/1962/destruction-paper/index.htm

Claude Lefort, “What Is Bureaucracy?” in Telos #22

http://classagainstclass.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=221:what-is-bureaucracy-claude-lefort&catid=15:cornelius-castoriadissocialisme-ou-barbarie&Itemid=20

Guy Debord, Decline and Fall of the Spectacle-Commodity Economy (1965)

http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/si/decline.html (5 pages)

For more background and intellectual history, see this map of Libertarian Marxism

http://libcom.org/library/libertarian-marxist-tendency-map

September 18th | Week Four – No Classes Scheduled

Italian Inquiry and Autonomous struggles

September 25th | Week Five

Double up on readings: [total is about 230 pages]

Steve Wright, Storming Heaven (Chapters One and Two, 55 pages)

“Quaderni Rossi and the Worker’s Enquiry,” pp. 32-62

“Class Operaia”, pp. 63-88

Mario Tronti, “Lenin in England” (1964)

www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/it/tronti.htm (7 pages)

Raniero Panzieri, “Socialist Uses of ‘Workers’ Inquiry” (1965)

http://transform.eipcp.net/transversal/0406/panzieri/en (4 pages)

Mario Tronti, “The Strategy of Refusal” (1965)

Autonomia, pp. 28-35 but also available as download, here: http://www.generation-online.org/t/ppp.htm or www.geocities.com/cordobakaf/tronti_refusal.html (17 pages)

Romano Alquati, “Capital and Class at FIAT: A Middle Point in the International Cycle” (1967)

[Email PDF] (15 pages)

Guido Baldi, “Theses on the Mass Worker and Social Capital”

Radical America, vol. 6, No. 3, May-June 1972

http://info.interactivist.net/node/2026 (10 pages)

Sergio Bologna, “Class composition and the Theory of the Party” (1972)

http://www.geocities.com/Cordobakaf/bologna.html (21 pages)

Sergio Bologna, “Tribe of Moles,” (1977)

Autonomia, pp. 36-61 but also available as download, here:

http://www.generation-online.org/t/ppp.htm or http://libcom.org/library/tribe-of-moles-sergio-bologna (30 pages)

Toni Negri, “Domination and Sabotage,” pp. 231- 285 in Books for Burning (Verso, 2005 [1977])

[Email PDF] (54 pages)

Franco “Bifo” Berardi, “Anatomy of Autonomy” (1977)

Autonomia, pp. 148-171, but also available as download, here:

http://www.generation-online.org/t/ppp.htm ,” (20 pages)

Suggested:

Screening of Wildcat/Manuela Pellerin (2004)

“The Last Firebrands Porto Marghera: Workers’ Autonomous in the Veneto” (52 minutes)

Excerpted version of Toni Negri, “Domination and Sabotage” (1977)

Autonomia, pp. 62-71, but also available as download, here

http://www.generation-online.org/t/ppp.htm (10 pages)

Reproductive Labor

October 2nd | Week Six

Approximately 110 pages

Mariarosa Dalla Costa, The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community (1971)

http://libcom.org/library/power-women-subversion-community-della-costa-selma-james

(28 pages)

Selma James, Sex, Race and Class (1973)

http://libcom.org/library/sex-race-class-james-selma (5 page excerpt)

Selma James “Women, the Unions and Work, or…What is Not to be Done,” Radical America, 7, nos. 4-5, July-October 1973: 51-72

http://dl.lib.brown.edu/pdfs/1124976284500408.pdf (pp. 53 -74 of the PDF of the entire issue of the journal, 21 pages)

Silvia Federici, Wages against Housework (1975)

[Email PDF] (8 pages)

Silvia Federici and Nicole Cox, “Counter-Planning from the Kitchen: A Perspective on Capital and the Left” (1974) and “Capital and the Left” (1975)

[Email PDF] (20 pages)

Silvia Federici, “Women and Welfare (Written for the NY Wages for Housework Committee)” (1975)

[Email PDF] (4 pages)

Mariarosa Dalla Costa, All Work and No Pay, Women Housework and the Wages Due, (in A General Strike, Power of Women Collective and Falling Wall Press publishers, London, 1975)

[Selections, Email PDF]

Silvia Federici, “Introduction” in Caliban and the Witch (Brooklyn: Autonomedia, 2004) pp. 11-17

[Email PDF] (6 pages)

Zerowork

October 9th | Week Seven

Approximately 90 pages

Harry Cleaver, “Marxist Categories, the Crisis of Capital and the Constitution of Social Subjectivity Today” in Common Sense (Scotland), 14, October 1993

[Email PDF]

Harry Cleaver, “Kropotkin, Self-valorization And The Crisis Of Marxism” (1992)

http://libcom.org/library/kropotkin-self-valorization-crisis-marxism (9 pages)

Zerowork, Political Materials #1, December 1975

Zerowork, “Introduction”

Reprinted: Midnight Oil: Work, Energy, War, 1973-1992, pp. 109-114 (6 pages)

Paolo Carpignano, “U.S. Class Composition in the Sixties”

http://libcom.org/library/us-class-composition-sixties-paolo-carpignano-zerowork (25 pages)

Peter Linebaugh and Peter Taylor, “Crisis in the Auto Sector”

Reprinted: Midnight Oil: Work, Energy, War, 1973-1992, pp. 143-168 (25 pages)

George Caffentzis, “Throwing Away The Ladder: The Universities In The Crisis”

http://libcom.org/library/throwing-away-ladder-universities-crisis-george-caffentzis-zerowork (7 pages)

Bruno Ramirez, “Working Class Struggle Against the Crisis: Self-Reduction in Italy”

Reprinted: Midnight Oil: Work, Energy, War, 1973-1992, pp. 185-192 (7 pages)

October 16th | Week Eight

Approximately 80 pages

Zerowork, Political Materials #2, Fall 1977

Harry Cleaver, “Food, Famine and the International Crisis”

http://libcom.org/files/Food_Famine_Int_Crisis.pdf (42 pages)

Christian Marazzi, “Money in the World Crisis: The New Basis of Capitalist Power”

http://classagainstclass.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=231:money-in-the-world-crisis-the-new-basis-of-capitalist-power-christian-marazzi-&catid=5:general-autonomist-texts&Itemid=7 (15 pages)

Donna Demac and Philip Mattera, “Developing and Underdeveloping New York: The ‘Fiscal Crisis’ and the Imposition of Austerity” pp. 113-139

[Email PDF] (26 pages)

Midnight Notes

October 23rd | Week Nine

Approximately 128 pages

Midnight Notes (various issues)

Midnight Notes (Monty Neill), “Audit of the Crisis” and “On the Very Thought of Solvency”

Midnight Notes #6 [available at http://www.midnightnotes.org] (8 pages)

The first article is reprinted in Midnight Oil: Work, Energy, War, 1973-1992, pp. 273-279

Midnight Notes, “Oil, Guns, and Money”

and “To Saudi with Love: Working Class Composition in the Mideast”

Midnight Oil: Work, Energy, War, 1973-1992, pp. 3-38 (35 pages)

Midnight Notes, “Recolonizing the Oil Fields”

and “The Post-Energy Crisis US Working Class Composition”

Midnight Oil: Work, Energy, War, 1973-1992, pp. 39-66 (27 pages)

Midnight Notes, “The New Enclosures”

Midnight Notes #10 (available here http://www.midnightnotes.org/newenclos.html)

Midnight Oil: Work, Energy, War, 1973-1992, pp. 317-33 (16 pages)

Midnight Notes, One No, Many Yeses (Midnight Notes #12, 1998)

http://www.midnightnotes.org/oneno.html (42 pages)

Suggested:

George Caffentzis, “The Work/Energy Crisis and the Apocalypse” [1980]

Midnight Oil: Work, Energy, War, 1973-1992, pp. 215-271 (56 pages)

On Research Militancy

October 30th | Week Ten

Approximately 95 pages

David Graeber and Stevphen Shukaitis (eds), Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations // Collective Theorization, Introduction, pp. 11-34 (23)

Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations // Collective Theorization:

Brian Holmes, “Continental Drift,” pp. 39-43 (3 pages)

Antonio Negri, “Logic and Theory of Inquiry,” pp. 62-72 (8 pages)

Jack Bratich, “Fragments on Machinic Intellectuals,” pp. 137-154 (15 pages)

Michal Osterweil and Graeme Chesters, “Global Uprisings: Towards a Politics of the Artisan,” pp. 253-261 (8 pages)

Colectivo Situaciones, “On the Researcher-Militant”

Transversal – Buenos Aires, Argentina, from previously published texts in 2001 and 2002(2003)

www.transform.eipcp.net Classic text (10 pages)

Colectivo Situaciones, “Something More on Research Militancy”

Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations // Collective Theorization, pp. 73-93 (20 pages)

Colectivo Situacciones, “Politicising Sadness”

Turbulence, Summer 2007

http://turbulence.org.uk/turbulence-1/politicising-sadness/ (9 pages)

November 6th | Week Eleven

Approximately 90 pages

Raul Sanchez Cedillo, “Toward New Political Creations: Movements, Institutions, New Militancy” (Madrid, Spain, 2007)

http://transform.eipcp.net/transversal/0707/sanchez/en (8 pages)

Precarias a la Deriva, “First Stutterings”

http://www.sindominio.net/karakola/antigua_casa/precarias/balbuceos-english.htm (20 pages)

Precarias a la Deriva, “A Very Careful Strike”

The Commoner, (Madrid, Spain, 2005)

http://www.commoner.org.uk/11deriva.pdf (12 pages)

MACHINES, “Sharing Tools for Intervention and Assembly,” (Barcelona, Spain, 2007 with participation of Argentineans, 3Cs, etc)

http://transform.eipcp.net/correspondence/1177371677 (2 pages)

ESC Atelier (Gigi Roggero et al.), “The Anamorphosis of Living Labour” (Ephemera Journal)

http://www.ephemeraweb.org/journal/7-1/7-1contietal.pdf (10 pages)

Counter-Cartographic Collective, “Transatlantic Translations: A Trilogy of Insurgent Knowledges”

In the Middle of a Whirlwind, journal contribution (Durham, NC, 2008) (20 pages)

http://inthemiddleofthewhirlwind.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/transatlantic-translations-a-trilogy-of-insurgent-knowledges/

Maribel Casas-Cortes and Sebastian Cobarrubias, “Drifting Through the Knowledge Machine”

Constituent Imagination: Militant Investigations // Collective Theorization, pp. 112-126

(12 pages)

Ultra-Red, “Some theses on militant sound investigation, or listening for a change”

In the Middle of a Whirlwind, journal contribution (Los Angelos, 2008) (5 pages)

http://inthemiddleofthewhirlwind.wordpress.com/some-theses-on-militant-sound-investigationor-listening-for-a-change/

Suggested:

Gigi Roggero, “Research and Co-Research”

[Email PDF]

Contemporary Class (and Political) Composition

November 13th | Week Twelve

Approximately 140 pages

Kolinko, “Class Composition” (2001)

http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/kolinko/engl/e_klazu.htm (11 pages)

Kolinko, “Hotlines”

http://www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/kolinko/lebuk/e_lebuk.htm (120 pages, select passages)

Riff-Raff, “Call Centers and Militant Inquiries”

http://www.riff-raff.se/en/6/callcenters_en.php (3 pages)

Riff Raff, “Hamburgers vs Value”

http://www.riff-raff.se/en/3-4/burgers_vs_value.php (7 pages)

Contemporary Political (and Class) Composition

November 20th | Week Thirteen

Approximately 90 pages

Team Colors, “To Show the Fire & the Tenderness,” Indypendent Reader (City From Below, 2009)

http://indyreader.org/content/to-show-fire-and-tenderness-by-teams-colors-collective-conor-cash-craig-hughes-stevie-peace-

Team Colors, Of Whirlwinds and Wind Chimes (or ways of listening): Movement building & Militant Research in the United States (2009),” Commoner N. 13 – Winter 2009

http://www.commoner.org.uk/?p=76

Turbulence Collective “Move into the Light?”

http://www.ephemeraweb.org/journal/7-4/7-4turbulence.pdf (12 pages)

Gigi Roggero and Sanda Mazzadra, “Singularization of the Common”

Turbulence, Summer 2007

http://turbulence.org.uk/turbulence-1/singularisation-of-the-common/ (9 pages)

Michal Osterweil, “Becoming-Woman? In Theory of in Practice?”

Turbulence, Summer 2007

http://turbulence.org.uk/turbulence-1/becoming-woman/ (9 pages)

Nick Dyer-Witherford, “Commonism”

Turbulence, Summer 2007

http://turbulence.org.uk/turbulence-1/commonism/ (10 pages)

Wildcat, “Class Struggle in a German Town” (1986)

http://libcom.org/library/class-struggle-german-town-wildkat (10 pages)

Experimental Chair on the production of Subjectivity, “From Knowledge of Self-Management to the Self-Management of Knowledge” (Rosario, Argentina, 2007)

http://eipcp.net/transversal/0707/catedraexperimental/en (7 pages)

Experimental Chair on the production of Subjectivity, “Call Center: The Art of Virtual Control”

http://www.ephemeraweb.org/journal/7-1/7-1experimentalchair.pdf (4 pages)

Raul Sanchez Cedillo, Tomas Herreros, et al., “Social Centers: Monsters and political machines for a new generation of movement institutions” Transversal, (Madrid and Barcelona, Spain, 2008)

http://eipcp.net/transversal/0508/carmonaetal/en (7 pages)

November 28th | Week Fourteen – No Class

Precarity

December 4th | Week Fifteen

Approximately 130 pages

Sivlia Federici, “Precarious Labor: A Feminist Viewpoint”

www.inthemiddleofthewhirlwind.wordpress.com/precarious-labor-a-feminist- viewpoint/ (9 pages)

Emma Cosse (ACTUP-Paris), “The Precarious Go Marching”

In the Middle of a Whirlwind, journal contribution (Paris, France 2008)

http://inthemiddleofthewhirlwind.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/the-precarious-go-marching/ (15 pages)

Alex Foti (Chainworkers), “Precarious Lexicon” and “Mayday Maday: Euro Flex Workers Time to Get a Move On” GreenPepper Magazin, Precarity Issue, 2004

[photocopy] (5 pages)

Precarias a la Deriva, “Precarious Lexicon”

available here: http://deletetheborder.org/node/1818 (6 pages)

Precarias a la Deriva, “Adrift through the circuits of feminized precarious work”

http://www.sindominio.net/karakola/antigua_casa/precarias/femrev.htm (4 pages)

MetaMute, A Precarious Reader: Texts on the Politics of Precarious Labor

Minimute #0, 2005 (select articles)

“Introduction: Exploring Precariousness”

“Precari-us?”

“Precarious Straits”

“Precarity and n/european Identity: (an interview with Alex Foti (ChainWorkers)”

“Is Precarity Enough?”

“Precarious, Precarisation, Precariat?”

“Marx and Makhno Meet McDonald’s”

“Disobbedienti, Ciao”

“Wages for Anyone Is Bad for Business”

“Call to Arms”

http://www.metamute.org/?q=en/node/416 (50 pages)

Bret Neilson and Ned Rossiter, “From Precarity to Precariousness and Back Again: Labor, Life, and Unstable Networks,” Fibreculture, #5, Multitudes, Creative Organization and the Precarious Condition of New Media Labour

http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue5/neilson_rossiter.html (15 pages)

Sandra Mezzadra, “Citizenship in Motion” (3 pages)

http://www.generation-online.org/t/tmezzadra.htm

Suggested:

[Precarity Map]

Precarity Map’s list of militant research collectives

http://www.precarity-map.net/wiki/index.php/Category:Militant_research_group

Entire issue of GreenPepper Magazin, Precarity Issue, 2004

[Email PDF]

Maurizio Lazzarato, “Towards an Inquiry into Immaterial Labour”

http://makeworlds.net/node/141 (2 pages)

George Caffentzis, “Crystals and Analytic Engines: Historical and Conceptual Preliminaries to a New Theory of Machines”

http://www.ephemeraweb.org/journal/7-1/7-1caffentzis.pdf (22 pages)

Knowledge Conflicts and Transformations

[Including our own]

December 11h | Week Sixteen

[Edu-Factory] Approximately 37 pages plus suggested readings

edufactory #1: Conflicts in the Production of Knowledge (February-May 2007)

http://www.edu-factory.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=7&id=17&Itemid=39

Andrew Ross, “The Rise of the Global University,” edufactory, 29 April 2007 (7 pages)

Silvia Federici and George Caffentzis, “CAFA and the Edu-Factory,” edufactory #1, 06 May 2007 (3 pages)

Massimo De Angelis, “Measure, Excess and Translation: Some notes on “Cognitive Capitalism,” edufactory #1, 15 May 2007 (3 pages)

Rete per l’Autoformazione (Uniriot Roma), “Knowledge Conflicts, Self-Education, and Common Production,” edufactory, 19 April 2007 (4 page)

edufactory #2: Hierarchisation and Autonomous Universities (25 November 2007- 28 February 2008)

http://www.edu-factory.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=category&sectionid=7&id=18&Itemid=40

Counter-Cartographies Collective, edufactory, 13 December 2007 (7 pages)

Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson, “Border as Method or the Multiplication of Labor” edufactory, 27 December 2007 (4 pages)

Jason Read, “University Experience: Neoliberalism against the Commons,” edufactory 04 January 2008 (2 pages)

Angela Mitropoulos, “Difference and Indifference. Part One: hierarchy and equality” edufactory, 05 January 2008 (2 pages)

Alberto De Nicola and Gigi Roggero, “Eight Theses on University, Hierarchization and Institutions of the Common,” edufactory #1, 05 January 2008 (2 pages)

Rete per l’Autoformazione (Uniriot Roma), “Autonomous University as a Common Process,” edufactory, 18 February 2008 (1 page)

after edufactory #2

Anna Curcio, “The Corporate University and the Financial Crisis, what is going on?,” edufactory 21 November 2008 (2 pages)

http://www.edu-factory.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=103&Itemid=1

Gigi Roggero, “The Power of Living Knowledge: Crises of the Global University, Class Struggle and Institutions of the Common,” transversal: knowledge production and its discontents (June 2009)

http://eipcp.net/transversal/0809/roggero/en/print (5 pages)