Emergent Authorities and the Experience of Power Retreat

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
  

  

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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”