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Emergent Authorities and the Experience of Power Retreat

16/11/2014

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The Authority Research Network spent seven days in Alfriston from November 1st-9th revisiting issues we tackled in the early days of the network, around power, authority, alienation and transcendence.

The readings we discussed included:

Monday - Alienation

  • Marx, "Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844"
  • Arendt, Chap. 7 of The Human Condition.
  • Kathi Weeks “Life within and against Work: Affective labor, feminist critique, and post-Fordist politics”.
  • Dyer-Witherford “21st Century Species Being”
  • Stavrides “Contested Urban Rhythms”
  • Lukacs, Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat
  

TUESDAY - Transcendence
  • Eve Sedgwick “The Pedagogy of Buddhism”
  • Walter Benjamin “On the Concept of History”
  • Lauren Berlant “Cruel optimism”
  • Susan Buck-Morss “Dialetics of Seeing” (excerpts)

WEDNESDAY – Image
  • Susan Buck-Morss “Visual Empire: The Sovereign Icon”
  • Walter Benjamin, Work of Art Essay.
  • Walter Benjamin, “Surrealism: The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia”
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