Hi to all
I thought some of you might be interested in this:
The next meeting of the Red Thread reading group, at the usual venue, King Ahiram’s – the Lebanese café in Vulture St, near the corner with Boundary St, West End.
Contact: Dan O’Neill or David Eden
Here is the full reading list.
New members are welcome.
Ideology: Ideas, Action and Material Reality
Week 1
1) Marx
A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right. Introduction (1943-4)
The German Ideology – Feuerbach. Opposition of The Materialist and Idealist Outlook. Sections A B C D
Week 2
2) Marx
Balibar, Etienne The Philosophy of Marx Chapter 3 Ideology or Fetishism: Power or Subjection
Capital Vol. 1 Chapter 1: The Commodity 4. The Fetishism of the Commodity and its Secret
Week 3
Lenin
What is to be done?
Week 4
Lukacs History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics Class Consciousness , Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat
Week 5
Gramsci – Selections from The Prison Notebooks
Week 6
Adorno “The Scheme of Mass Culture” & “Culture Industry Reconsidered”
Week 7
Benjamin “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”
Week 8
Debord Society of the Spectacle
Week 9
Lefebrve
The Sociology of Marx Chapter 2 The Marxian Concept of Praxis Chapter 3 Ideology and the Sociology of Knowledge
Week 10
Mao “On Practice” & “On Contradiction”
Week 11
Althusser “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses” & “Marxism and Humanism”
Week 12
Foucault “Truth and Power” & “Subjectivity and Truth”
Week 13
Deleuze “Many Politics”
Week 14
Irigary “The Sex that is not One” & “Psychoanalytical Theory: Another Look Haraway “The Cyborg Manifesto”
Week 15
Zizek ‘Chapter 1: How did Marx invent the Symptom’ in The Sublime Object of Ideology & “Between Symbolic Fiction and Fantasmic Spectre: Towards a Lacanian Theory of Ideology.