Working Bibliography

Below, find our “working bibliography,” organized thematically. Some of these readings will be incorporated into our regular meetings. If you would like to add readings to this bibliography, email us @ immaterial.labor.group@gmail.com

Immaterial Labor

• Lazzarato, Maurizio. “Immaterial Labor.” In Radical Thought In Italy: A Potential Politics. Paolo Virno and Michael Hardt, eds. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.
• —. “The Machine.” http://eipcp.net/transversal/1106/lazzarato/en/print 2006.
• Malabou, Catherine. What Should We Do With Our Brain? Bronx, NY: Fordham, 2008.
• Marx, Karl. “Treatise on the General Intellect” from Grundrisse, and selections from its many recent readings (Virno, Hardt & Negri, etc.)
• Papadopoulos, Dimitris, Niamh Stephenson and Vassilis Tsianos. Escape Routes: Control and Subversion in the 21st Century. Ann Arbor, MI: Pluto  Press, 2008.
• Stiegler, Bernard. Technics and Time Vol. 2: Disorientation. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford UP, 2008.
• Virno, Paulo. Grammar of the Multitude: For an Analysis of Contemporary Forms of Life. Semiotext(e), 2004.

Affective and Information Economies and Labor

• Cooper, M. Life as Surplus: Biotechnology and Capitalism in the Neoliberal Era. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2008.
• Hardt, Michael. “Affective Labor.” boundary 2 26.2 (1999): 89-100. http://www.jequ.org/files/affective-labor.pdf
• Hochschild, Arlie. The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home. New York: Penguin Books, 1989.
• Lehrer, Jonah. Imagine: How Creativity Works. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Court, 2012.
• Redfield, Peter and Erica Bornstein. Forces of Compassion: Humanitarianism Between Ethics and Politics. Santa Fe, New Mexico: SAR Press, 2010.
• Strom, Stephanie. “Cracking Open the World Bank.” New York Times. 3 July 2011
• Weeks, Kathi. “Life Within and Against Work: Affective Labor, Feminist Critique, and Post-Fordist Politics.” ephemera 7.1 (2007): 233-249. http://www.ephemeraweb.org/journal/7-1/7-1weeks.pdf

New Theories of Production

• Barrow, Clyde. Universities and the Capitalist State: Corporate Liberalism and the Reconstruction of American Higher Education, 1894-1928. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990.
• Dyer-Witheford, Nick. “Cognitive Capitalism and the Contested Campus.” In Geoff Cox (ed), Engineering Culture: On ‘The Author as (Digital) Producer. New York: Autonomedia, 2005: pp. 71-94.
• —. Cyber-Marx: Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High Technology Capitalism. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1999.
• Ehrenberg, Alain. The Fatigue of Being Oneself: Depression and Society. Paris: Odile Jacob, 1998.
• Negri, Antonio. Marx Beyond Marx: Lessons on the Grundrisse. New York: Autonomedia, 1989.
• Read, Jason. The Micropolitics of Capital: Marx and the Prehistory of the Present. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003.

Activism, Academia, and Praxis

• Derrida, Jacques. Without Alibi. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002.
• Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. London and NY: Continuum, 2000.
• Kamola, Isaac, and Eli Meyerhoff. “Creating Commons: Divided Governance, Participatory Management, and Struggles Against Enclosure in the University.” Polygraph 21 (2009): 15-37.
• Kant, Immanuel. The Conflict of the Faculties. Trans. Mary J. Gregor. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1992.
• Readings, Bill. The University in Ruins. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.
• Roggero, Gigi. The Production of Living Knowledge: The Crisis of the University and the Transformation of Labor in Europe and North America. Philadelphia, PN: Temple University Press, 2011.
• Terranova, Tiziana, and Marc Bousquet. 2004. “Recomposing the University.” Mute 28 (2004): 72-81. http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/recomposing-university

Student Debt 

• Adamson, Morgan. “The Financialization of  Student Life: Five Propositions on Student Debt.” Polygraph 21 (2009): 97-110.
• “After the Fall: Communiqués from Occupied California.” http://afterthefallcommuniques.info
• Armstrong, Amanda and Paul Nadal. “Building Times: How Lines of Care Occupied Wheeler Hall.” Reclamations Journal 1. (December 2009), http://reclamationsjournal.org/issue01_armstrong_nadal.html
• Bernes, Jasper. “The Double Barricade and the Glass Floor.” Reclamations Journal 2 (April 2010). http://reclamationsjournal.org/issue02_jasper_bernes.html
• Inoperative Committee. “University Occupations: France 1968, 2006, Greece 2006, NYC 2008-9.” 2009. http://reoccupied.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/occupations-5.pdf

Tenure, Adjunct, and Precarious Labor

• Boldt, Josh. The Adjunct Project. http://adjunctproject.com/
• Bousquet, Marc. How the University Works. New York: NYU Press, 2008.
• Krause, Monika, ed. The University Against Itself: The NYU Strike and the Future of the Academic Workplace. Philadelphia, PN: Temple University Press, 2007.
• Ross, Andrew. Nice Work if You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times. NY: NYU Press, 2009.
• Weeks, Kathi. The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics and Postwork Imaginaries. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010.