Latin American Biopolitics Reading Group
The Latin American Biopolitics Reading Group 2017-2018
Modernity and Naked Life
The Latin American Essy and The Critique of Capitalism
Sponsor
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Northwestern University
Organizer
Carlos Gustavo Halaburda
Preliminary list of readings. Fall Schedule.
September 22th, 2017. All that is solid melts into air. The romantic critique of life’s reification
Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto. 2nd ed., New York: Norton & Amp Co., 2013. (Available in Spanish.) Selections. And/or Marx, Karl. Value, Price and Profit. New York: International Co., Inc, 1969. Selections.
Beckman, Ericka. Capital Fictions: The Literature of Latin America’s Export Age. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013. Selections.
October 5th, 2017. Precarious Modernity, Precarious lives.
Max Weber's "Science as a Vocation". London & Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989. (Available in Spanish.) Selections. And/or Freud, Sigmund. Civilization and Its Discontents. New York: Norton, 2005. (Available in Spanish.)
Sarlo, Beatriz. Una modernidad periférica: Buenos Aires, 1920 Y 1930. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Nueva Visión, 1988. Selections.
October 20th, 2017. Being as such has been forgotten: A Latin American perspective on life and being.
Heidegger, Martin. Carta sobre el humanismo. Traducción de Helena Cortés y Arturo Leyte Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2000. Selections. Feinmann, José Pablo. La filosofía y el barro de la historia. 1. ed., Buenos Aires: Planeta,
2005. Selections.
November 3rd, 2017. A critique of the life of things.
Benjamin, Walter. Theses on the Philosophy of History / from Illuminations. New York: Schocken Books, 1969. Pp. 253-264. (Available in Spanish.) Selections.
Uslenghi, Alejandra. Latin America at Fin-de-siècle Universal Exhibitions : Modern Cultures
of Visuality. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Print. New Directions in Latino American Cultures. Selections.
Löwy, Michael. Ecosocialism: A Radical Alternative to Capitalist Catastrophe. London: Haymarket Books, 2015. (Available in Spanish). Selections.
November 24th, 2017
Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. 2nd Vintage Books ed. New York: Vintage, 1995. Selections.
Moraña, et al. Heridas abiertas. Biopolítica y representación en América Latina. Madrid: Frankfurt Am Main: Iberoamericana; Vervuert, 2014. Selections.