Week 3: The Commons
February 12
Silvia Federici, “Part Two: On the Commons,” in Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons (PM Press: 2019) [here is the full book, but we will focus on Part Two]
Lauren Berlant, “The Commons: Infrastructures for troubling times,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space (2016)
José Esteban Muñoz, “The Brown Commons,” in The Sense of Brown, ed. Joshua Chambers-Letson and Tavia Nyong’o (Duke University Press: 2020)
Joshua Clover, “Riot Now: Square, Street, Commune,” in Riot. Strike. Riot: The New Era of Uprisings (AK Press: 2016)
Juliana Spahr, That Winter the Wolf Came (Verso: 2015)
Additional:
Sean Bonney, the commons II (2011)
Kristin Ross, The Commune Form: The Transformation of Everyday Life (Verso: 2024) (introduction) [looking for pdf, will upload!]
Patrick Lyons, “On Kristin Ross’s The Commune Form,” Parapraxis Magazine (2025)
Kristin Ross and Andreas Petrossiants, “The Commune Form: A Conversation,” e-flux (2025)
Hyeree Ro and Armando Cortés, Friend of Friend (2022-present)
Iris Marion Young, Gender as Seriality (Princeton: 1997)
Jill Frank and Sarah B. K. Greenberg, “Weaving Politics in Plato’s Statesman,” in The Routledge Handbook of Women and Ancient Greek Philosophy (Routledge: 2024)
Silvia Federici, “Part Two: On the Commons,” in Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons (PM Press: 2019) [here is the full book, but we will focus on Part Two]
Lauren Berlant, “The Commons: Infrastructures for troubling times,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space (2016)
José Esteban Muñoz, “The Brown Commons,” in The Sense of Brown, ed. Joshua Chambers-Letson and Tavia Nyong’o (Duke University Press: 2020)
Joshua Clover, “Riot Now: Square, Street, Commune,” in Riot. Strike. Riot: The New Era of Uprisings (AK Press: 2016)
Juliana Spahr, That Winter the Wolf Came (Verso: 2015)
Additional:
Sean Bonney, the commons II (2011)
Kristin Ross, The Commune Form: The Transformation of Everyday Life (Verso: 2024) (introduction) [looking for pdf, will upload!]
Patrick Lyons, “On Kristin Ross’s The Commune Form,” Parapraxis Magazine (2025)
Kristin Ross and Andreas Petrossiants, “The Commune Form: A Conversation,” e-flux (2025)
Donna Haraway, Staying with the Struggle: Making Kin int he Chthulucene (Duke University Press: 2016)
Silvia Federici, “Part 3: Reproducing Commons,” in Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle (PM Press: 2012)
Hyeree Ro and Armando Cortés, Friend of Friend (2022-present)Iris Marion Young, Gender as Seriality (Princeton: 1997)
Jill Frank and Sarah B. K. Greenberg, “Weaving Politics in Plato’s Statesman,” in The Routledge Handbook of Women and Ancient Greek Philosophy (Routledge: 2024)