thompson reading list

week 1: Judith Butler, Precarious Life: the Powers of Mourning and Violence, 2004. Verso. Chapters 1, 2, and 5.

week 2: short selection from Homo Sacer, on bare life concept, Giorgio Agamben; Achille Mbembe, "Necropolitics" essay; and Foucault, "The Birth of Biopolitics," chapter from Ethics.

week 3: Donna Haraway, "Cyborg Manifesto," from Simians, Cyborgs, and Women, and The Companion Species Manifesto, (Prickly Paradigm Press) to bring up to date.

my very best to you both -

charis

2008-02-06