For Friday September 9, 2011
Hardt, Michael and Antonio Negri. “Ch. 3.5: Mixed Constitution.” Empire. Harvard University Press, 2000. 304-324; 463-466.
Schiller, Dan. “Ch. 9: Open Questions about China, Information, and the World Economy.” How to Think about Information. University of Illinois Press, 2007. 177-197; 249-259.
For Tuesday September 27, 2011
Appadurai, Arjun. “Ch. 2: Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy.” Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization. University of Minnesota Press, 1996. 27-47.
Jha, Prem Shankar; Eric Hobsbawm (foreword). “Ch. 5: The Rise of Global Capitalism.” Twilight of the Nation State: Globalisation, Chaos and War. Pluto Press, 2006. 81-95.
Jha, Prem Shankar; Eric Hobsbawm (foreword). “Ch. 6: The End of Organised (National) Capitalism.” Twilight of the Nation State: Globalisation, Chaos and War. Pluto Press, 2006. 96-146.
For Friday October 7, 2011
Iwabuchi’s “Introduction” to Recentering globalization: popular culture and Japanese transnationalism
Aiwha Ong’s “Introduction” to Neoliberalism as Exception.
Optional: Dal Yong Jin’s “A Critical Analysis of US Cultural Police in the Global Film Market: Nation-States and FTAs.”
For Friday October 21, 2011
Jin, Dal Yong. “Ch. 5: Reorganization of the Korean Media Industry.” Hands On/ Hands Off. Hampton Press, 2011. 85-123.
Jin, Dal Yong. “Ch. 6: Cultural Politics in Korea’s Contemporary Film Industry.” Hands On/ Hands Off. Hampton Press, 2011. 125-143.
Jin, Dal Yong. “Critical Interpretation of Hybridisation in Korean Cinema.” Javnost–The Public 17.1 (2010): 55-72
For Wednesday Dec. 7, 2011
Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt. “Introduction (plus notes).” Friction. Princeton University Press, 2005. 1-18, 273-277.
Chakrabahty
Optional:
Ong, Aihwa. “Introduction: Neoliberalism as Exception, Exception to Neoliberalism.” Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty. Duke University Press, 2006. 1-27.
For Friday Feb. 3, 2012
Recommended:
Saskia Sassen. (2011). The global street: Making the political. Globalization, 8(5), 573-579.
Dyer-Witheford, N. (2010). Digital labour, species-becoming and the global worker. Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organizatioin, 10(3/4), 484-503.
Optional:
Saskia Sassen (2008). Neither global nor national: Novel assemblages of territory, authority and rights. Ethics & Global Politics, 1(1/2), 61-79.
Dyer-Witheford, N. (2012). Net, squere, everywhere? Radical Philosophy, 171(Jan/Feb), 1-7.
For Feb. 22, 2012: Seminar with Saskia Sassen
Sassen, Saskia. (2010). A Savage Sorting of Winners and Losers: Contemporary Versions of Primitive Accumulation. Globalizations. 7(1), 23-50.
Sassen, Saskia. (2011). Global Challenges and the City. Arena.
Sassen, Saskia. (2011). The Global Street Comes to Wall Street. Possible Futures.
We’ll also read Dr. Sassen’s lecture paper for this seminar. For a copy of Dr. Sassen’s lecture, please email Jungmin Kwon at kwon30@illinois.edu
For March 9, 2012: Seminar with Nick Dyer-Witheford
Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig de Peuter, “Empire@Play: Virtual Games and Global Capitalism”
Nick Dyer-Witheford, “Digital labour, species-becoming and the global worker”, ephemera: theory & politics in organization 10: 3/4 484-503 (2010)
Nick Dyer-Witheford, “Net, square, everywhere?” Radical Philosophy 171 (2012)
Optional: Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games (University of Minnesota, 2009) by Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig de Peuter
