III. State Power, Ideology, State Space, Colonization, Surveillance
1. Hobbes: Functions of the State
Recommended Reading: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, p. 183-192, 228-237. Ed. C.B. Macpherson, Penguin 1968.
Hobbes diag
2. Spinoza: Natural Right and Combined Force
Spinoza, Nietzsche and Marx audio lecture
Recommended Reading: Benedict de Spinoza, A Political Treatise, pp. 291-298. Tran. R. H. M. Elwes. Dover 1951.
3. Nietzsche: The World as Will to Power
Recommended Reading: Nietzsche, Will to Power, pp. 339-340 (fragment 636), 346-347 (fragments 655-658). Ed. Walter Kauffman, Vintage 1968.
4. Marx: Class Power, Labor Power, Ideology
Recommended Reading: Marx, The German Ideology, pp. 42-43, 46-47, 48-50, 52-60, 64-66.
MARX'S MODEL OF IDEOLOGY Marx Engels broad Notes
5. Lenin and Trotsky: State Power and Revolution
Lenin and Trotsky video lecture
Recommended Reading: Lenin, State and Revolution, and Trotsky, The Revolution Betrayed, from Curtis, pp. 366-378.
Selected Lenin texts/quotations
Selected Trotsky texts/quotation
6. Emma Goldman: Anarchism as Opposition to State, Religion, and Property
Recommended Reading: Goldman, “Anarchism…” pp. 47-67.
Goldman and Kropotkin
7. Louis Althusser: Ideological State Apparatuses
Althusser audio lecture:
Recommended Reading: Althusser, “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses,” pp. 1-11, 14-31.
Althusser notes (+Fanon Said)
8. James C. Scott: Seeing Like a State / State Space
Scott audio lecture
Recommended Reading: James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, pp. 22-83. Yale 1998.
Scott Seeing like a State
9. Silvia Federici: Primitive Accumulation and Women
Recommended Reading: Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch, pp. 61-75, 82-97. Autonomedia 2004.
Federici Notes
10. James and Dallacosta: Women and the Subversion of the Community
James and Dalla Costa audio lecture:
Recommended Reading: James and Dallacosta, Women and the Subversion of the Community, pp. 5-19.
Selected texts/quotations
JAMES AND DALLACOSTA FIN
11. John Gaventa: Stages of (Internal) Colonization
Gaventa audio lecture:
Recommended Reading: Gaventa, Power and Powerlessness, pp. 47-83.
Selected texts/quotations
Gaventa Notes - Tagged
12. Ture and Hamilton: White Power vs Black Power
Ture and Hamilton audio lecture
Recommended Reading: Ture and Hamilton, Black Power, pp. 2-23, 34-41, 44-56.
Selected texts/quotations
Ture Diags
13. Michel Foucault: Disciplinary Power
Althusser and Foucault audio lecture
Recommended Reading: Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, pp. 195-228. Trans. Alan Sheridan, Vintage 1977.
14. Eyal Weizman: Architecture and Power in Occupied Palestine
Foucault Weizman audio lecture
Recommended Reading: Eyal Weizman, Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation, pp. 1-11, 63-70, 80-85. Verso 2007.