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Literature List
  1. Tamara Yugov and Lea Ypi — Structural Injustice, Epistemic Opacity and the Responsibilities of the Oppressed (2016, 25 pages)

    → democracy, responsibility, equality, mobilization

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  2. Jacques Rancière — Hatred of Democracy (2006, 97 pages)

    → democracy, equality, dissensus, political subjectivity

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  3. Orlando Fals-Borda — The Application of Participatory Action-Research in Latin America (1987, 18 pages)

    → research, activism, knowledge production, inclusion

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  4. Sophie Lewis — Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation (2022, "But I Love my Family!")

    → feminism, alternative relationships, patriarchy

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  5. Judith Butler — Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? (2009, Introduction, 32 pages)

    → precarity, recognisability, ethics of mourning, power of frames

  6. Achille Mbembe — Necropolitics (2019, 30 pages)

    → sovereignty, death, biopolitics, colonialism

  7. Tania Murray Li — The Will to Improve: Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics (2007)

    → governmentality, development, colonial legacies, power/knowledge

  8. Frantz Fanon — The Wretched of the Earth (1961)

    → decolonisation, violence, liberation, racial subjectivity

  9. Herbert Marcuse — One-Dimensional Man (1964)

    → critical theory, domination, repression, modern capitalism

  10. Theodor W. Adorno (with Max Horkheimer) — Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)

    → reason, culture industry, enlightenment and domination

  11. Jürgen Habermas — The Theory of Communicative Action (1981)

    → communicative rationality, public sphere, legitimacy

  12. Jacques Derrida — Of Grammatology (1967) / Writing and Difference (1967) / Specters of Marx (1993)

    → deconstruction, language, justice, temporality

  13. Giorgio Agamben — Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (1995)

    → biopolitics, state of exception, sovereignty, bare life

  14. Michel Foucault — Discipline and Punish (1975); The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1 (1976); Society Must Be Defended (1975–76 lectures)

    → power/knowledge, discipline, governmentality, biopolitics

  15. Simone de Beauvoir — The Second Sex (1949)

    → gender, existentialism, oppression, freedom

  16. Louis Althusser — Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (1970, essay)

    → ideology, subject formation, reproduction of power

  17. Ernesto Laclau (and Chantal Mouffe) — Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (1985)

    → hegemony, discourse, antagonism, post-Marxism

  18. Susan Sontag — Notes on 'Camp' (1964)

    → aesthetics, irony, artifice, gay sensibility

  19. Judith Butler — Gender Trouble (1990)

    → performativity, gender identity, queer theory, subversion

  20. Lisa Disch — "Judith Butler and the Politics of the Performative" (1999)

    → performative politics, identity, agency, democratic theory

  21. Charity Scribner — The Requiem for Communism (2003)

    → memory, post-communism, cultural politics, melancholia

  22. David Graeber — Dead Zones of the Imagination: inviolence, bureaucracy and interpretative labour (2012)

    → control, bureaucracy, labour

  23. Kathi Weeks — Anti/Postwork Feminist Politics and a Case for Basic Income (2020)

    → feminism, UBI, labour