Tutor: Stevphen Shukaitis
E-mail: s.shukaitis [at] qmul.ac.uk (replace the at an @ symbol)
Website: http://www.refusingstructures.net/strategyseminar.html
Seminar Readings
Week 1: Introduction—Strategy, Socialization, and the Everyday
Mario Tronti, “The Strategy of Refusal.”
Notes from Seminar 1 as a PDF.
Week 2: Workers' Inquiry and Research
Marta Malo de Molina (2006) “Common notions, part 1: workers-inquiry, co-research, consciousness-raising.”
Kolinkos (2002) Hotlines.
Week 3: Post-Fordism, Media Flows, and Network Cultures
Tiziana Terranova (2004) Network Culture: Politics and the Information Age. London: Pluto Books.
Maurizio Lazzarato (1996) “Immaterial Labor.”
Notes from Seminar 3 as a PDF
Week 4: Precarious Conditions, Affective Labor
Precarias a la Deriva (2006) “A Very Careful Strike—Four Hypotheses,” the commoner Number 11 (Spring 2006): 33-45.
Angela Mitropoulos (2005) “Precari-us?” Mute Magazine.
Notes from Seminar 4 as a PDF
Week 5: Biocapital / Conclusion-Summary
Kaushik Sunder Rajan (2006) Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Also, the “Biosphere,” section of the Greenpepper Magazine “Information” Issue, available at www.greenpeppermagazine.org/archives.html
Notes for Seminar 5 as a PDF
Assessments
Assessment for this seminar will occur through the format of a “seminar journal” consisting of reflections on the assigned readings and topics discussed. Reflections should consist of several paragraphs of quality engagement with the material (in other words substantive thinking is more highly valued than a greater amount of writing that is not well thought out). At the end of the seminar there will be a short essay due (or approximately 700 words) drawing on the reflections from your previous journal entries and connecting the various topics covered. Remember, this assessment is worth half your mark.
