R: [Generation_online] Reading programme?

[M]

Some of these areas are quite broad, so the best you can do (well, at least
on a first quick overview) is something like: 'conception of the state and
constituted power' is Empire pt 1&2 & 3.5 & 3.6; while 'living labour,
social ontology, capital' covers all of pt3 & pt4,  'political ontology' is
mainly pt4, 'postmodernity as societal state' is mainly pt.3, esp. 3.3-4.1.

I'm sure these could be narrowed down further, but probably not without
re-reading it all over again. I foolishly didn't take any notes as I went
through it. Others may have a clearer hold on the book. I must admit it's
not the text I'm most familiar with...

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Matteo asked for this again. I havent had the chance to improve it besides
adding texts others mentioned. If some one would add the appropriate
sections of Empire to these headings it might start to make more sense.


Living labour, social ontology, Capital

People: i.e. Chris Arthur, Harry Cleaver, I Rubin,
Concepts: Bio-power, Domestic Labour debate, labour theory of value/ beyond
measure, material/ immaterial labour.
Books: Marx beyond Marx, Grundrisse ('Fragment on Machines')
Toni's 20 Theses on Marx (in Marxism Beyond Marxism)
'Results of the Immediate Process of Production' printed as appendix to
Capital Vol1 (penguin ed.)[On formal and real subsumption] or found in Value
Studies by Marx (New Park)- which has more useful stuff.


Political ontology and the metaphysics of Marx and Spinoza.

Books: Savage Anomaly, Insurgencies and of course Empire. Lukacs' ontology
of Social Being The New Spinoza and Warren Montag's Bodies, Masses, Power:
Spinoza and his contemporaries.
People: Hobbes, Spinoza, Deleuze
Concepts: Multitude and strength, desire, potentia,


Conception of the State and constituted power

Books: Spinoza's Theological Political Treatise, Political Treatise,
Insurgencies, Marx's critique of Hegel's philosophy of the state etc.
Agamben's Homo Sacer
People: Balibar on Spinoza,
Concepts: Potestas, Empire, power


Postmodernity as societal state - (postmodernization, globalisation, post-
nation.

Books: Insurgencies, Empire, Postmodern condition/ Limits to Capital
People: David Harvey, Fred Jameson, Warren Montag, Wallerstein etc
Concepts: post-fordism, immaterial labour, communication.
Capitalism and the Modern World-System: Rethinking the Non-Debates of the
1970s"by Giovanni Arrighi http://fbc.binghamton.edu/gaasa96.htm


Postmodernism as method, as relation to knowledge

Books: Lyotard, Zizek (politics of truth in Ticklish subject), Benhabib,
Laclau Mouffe.
Negri (the Late Althusser article)
Concepts: Aleatory Materialism, epistemological relativism, skepticism and
cynicism, de-centred totality.


The Multitude

The Coming Community: Agamben
Paolo Virno: Politics of the Multitude
Selections from the multitudes journal.


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