Party of the Dead, Eternity Smells like Putin, 2020. Performance action. Photograph by and courtesy of David Frenkel.
This reading group is discontinued for Spring 2023.
Schedule:
Thursdays every other week, starting September 8 at 4:30.
Tentative schedule:
Sep 8.
Introductions
Sep 22.
Boris Groys. Art Power. 2019 (selections)
Boris Groys. The Communist Postscript. 2016
Oct 6.
Madina Tlostanova.What Does It Mean to Be Post-Soviet? Decolonial Art from the Ruins of the Soviet Empire. 2018
Madina Tlostanova. Postcolonialism and Postsocialism in Fiction and Art: Resistance and Re-existence. 2017
Madina Tlostanova. Gender Epistemologies and Eurasian Borderlands. 2010
Oct 27.
Arif Dirlik, selections
Nov 10
Jodi Dean, ed. Organize, Fight, Win: Black Communist Women’s Political Writing. 2022
Alexandra Kollontai Archive (selections)
Rebecca Karl. The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory. Co-editor and co-translator with Lydia Liu & Dorothy Ko. 2013
Nov 24.
Rachel Price. Planet Cuba. 2015
Dec 8
TBD