MARK PURCELL

I always really appreciated Michael Hardt posting his reading notes on Capitalism and Schizophrenia, and that kindness inspired this page. These are my notes for some of the texts I use frequently. They are of course not authoritative, so use them at your own risk. Some are more carefully edited and well-articulated than others. None are as good as what Hardt posted. With those caveats, I am putting them into the common stream, hoping they might be useful to others. I am sharing them subject to the terms of the GNU General Public License, which means essentially: you are free to use anything you find here, as long as 1) you say where you got it from, 2) you don't use it as a machine to extract money from others, and 3) you share it with others like it was shared with you.



Miguel Abensour, Democracy Against the State

Giorgio Agamben, The Coming Community

Giorgio Agamben, Form-of-Life (from Radical Thought in Italy)

Giorgio Agamben, Beyond Human Rights (from Radical Thought in Italy)

Giorgio Agamben, Introductory Note on Democracy (Democracy in What State?)

Giorgio Agamben, The Use of Bodies

Franco Berardi, Uprising: On Poetry and Finance

Judith Butler, Precarious Life (Preface and Chapters 1, 2, and 5)

Judith Butler, Notes Toward A Performative Theory of Assembly

Cornelius Castoriadis, The Castoriadis Reader

Pierre Clastres, Society Against the State

Deleuze & Guattari, Anti-Oedipus

Deleuze & Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus

Deleuze & Guattari, What is Philosophy?

Douzinas & Zizek, eds., The Idea of Communism (First Edited Collection)

Zizek, ed., The Idea of Communism (Second Edited Collection)

Guattari & Negri, Communists Like Us

Hardt & Negri, Commonwealth

Hardt & Negri, Declaration

Eugene Holland, Nomad Cititzenship

Augusto Illuminati, Unrepresentable Citizenship (from Radical Thought in Italy)

Julia Kristeva, New Forms of Revolt

Henri Lefebvre, The Urban Revolution

Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space

Laclau & Mouffe, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy

Marx, Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right

Marx, On the Jewish Question

Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts

Marx, Theses on Feuerbach

Marx, Addresses on the Civil War in France

Nancy, The Truth of Democracy

Nietzsche, Birth of Tragedy

Josiah Ober, A selection of articles

Jacques Ranciere, On the Shores of Politics

Jacques Ranciere, Dissensus

Pierre Rosanvallon, Democracy Past and Future

Paolo Virno, Grammar of the Multitude

Paolo Virno, Virtuosity and Revolution: The Political Theory of Exodus (from Radical Thought in Italy)

Raoul Vaneigem, Total Self-Management