Anglia Ruksin University, East Rd, Cambridge – Helmore Buliding Room 115
Week 1: Capital after Capital -‐ Tue 4 October 2011, 5.30 PM
Karl Marx, The ‘Fragment on Machines’, in the Grundrisse. Reading Here
Week 2: Wages and Labour Time -‐ Tue 18 October 2011, 5.30 PM
Karl Marx, Capital volume 1, chapters 19-‐22. Readings here: Ch 19 – Ch 20 – Ch 21 – Ch 22
Matteo Pasquinelli, ‘Google’s PageRank Algorithm: A Diagram of the Cognitive Capitalism and the Rentier of the Common Intellect’. Reading Here
Week 3: Forms of Life and Biocapital -‐ Tue 1 November 2011
Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 (excerpts – sections on ‘Estranged Labour’ p322 , ‘The Relationship of Private Property p334’, ‘Private Property and Labour’ p.341, ‘Private Property and Communism p.345’ Page numbers are from the Penguin edition of Marx Early Writings, PDF version Here
Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life Chapter 3, plus coda. PDF version Here
Week 4: Infrastructure -‐ Tue 15 November 2011
Karl Marx, Capital volume 1, chapters 31-‐33
Ch. 31: Genesis of the Industrial Capitalist
Ch. 32: Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation
Ch. 33: The Modern Theory of Colonisation
Susan Buck-‐Morss, ‘Envisioning Capital: Political Economy on Display’, in Critical Inquiry 21:2 (Winter 1995). PDF Here
Week 5: Manifestos -‐ Tue 29 November 2011
KM and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto Here
McKenzie Wark, A Hacker Manifesto (Chapters 1 & 2: Abstraction and Class pp1-19) Here
Dmytri Kleiner, The Telekommunist Manifesto (The Client-Server Capitalist State & Manifesto of Telekommunisten Network pp8-28) Here
Full reading schedule schedule Here