Tutor: Stevphen Shukaitis
E-mail: s.shukaitis [at] qmul.ac.uk (replace the at an @ symbol)
Website: http://stevphen.mahost.org/strategyseminar2007.html
Seminar Readings
Session 1: Raniero Panzieri (2006) “The Socialist Uses of Workers' Inquiry,” available at www.generation-online.org/t/tpanzieri.htm
Also, take a glance over (particularly the intro and first few chapters) of Kolinko (2002) Hotlines . Available at www.nadir.org/nadir/initiativ/kolinko/lebuk/e_lebuk.htm
Notes from Week 1 as a PDF
Session 2: Midnight Notes (1990) “Introduction to the New Enclosures,” The New Enclosures . Midnight Notes Number 10: 1-9. Available at www.midnightnotes.org
As well as Meenu Tewari (2006) “Targeting Global Supply Chains: Innovations in Labor Organizing in the Indian Garment Industries . PDF available here.
Notes from Week 2 as a PDF
Session 3: Tiziana Terranova (2000) “Free Labor: Producing Culture for the Digital Economy,” Social Text Volume 18 Number 2: 33-58. PDF here.
Notes from Week 3 as a PDF
Session 4: Selections from Mute Issue on “Living in a Bubble: Credit, Debt & Crisis,” Volume 2 Number 6 (2007). Available at www.metamute.org:
"The Magic of Debt, or, Amortise This!"
"Speculating on Student Debt"
And, if you're feeling ambitious, "Fictitious Capital for Beginners"
Notes from Week 4 as a PDF
Session 5: This session will be used to discuss any questions you may have concerning the assessment assigned by Dr. Harney.
Assessments
It is essential that all students come well-prepared for the seminars. The seminars will only work if all present participate in the discussion. You must read the material carefully, taking notes as you go. Much of the material you will encounter is new and difficult. Do not be deceived into thinking that because a piece is short it contains little information or little thought. Leave yourself plenty of time to read the articles.
Your assessment will be in the form of a seminar journal that you will hand in at the office in the final week of seminars (due 12/14 in the department office). This will contain a (typed not handwritten, single spaced) one page summary and assessment for each of the four readings discussed in the seminars. You will be expected to bring the journal to the seminars so that each of you will have at least one question to discuss in the course of the seminar.
Remember, this assessment is worth 40% your mark.
