just read Niebuhr - "The irony of american history" - thoughtful analysis of the intentions of the founding fathers and the current activities of america, individualism, and comparisons with communism. AND it's short <div>
<br></div><div>Meredith </div><div><br><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 3:32 AM, Verina Gfader <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:verina.gfader@sunderland.ac.uk">verina.gfader@sunderland.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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The Exploit, A Theory of Networks, by Alexander R. Galloway and Eugene<br>
Thacker<br>
<a href="http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/G/galloway_exploit.html" target="_blank">http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/G/galloway_exploit.html</a><br>
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Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (Chicago: University of Chicago<br>
Press, 1958)<br>
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Antonio Negri, Time for Revolution<br>
(second part "Kairòs, Alma Venus, Multitudo")<br>
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Giorgio Agamben, State of Exception (2005). The Coming Community (1993)<br>
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Laclau, Ernesto & Mouffe, Chantal (2001, 2nd ed.) Hegemony and Socialist<br>
Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics. London, New York: Verso<br>
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relation to contemporary art, e.g.: post-concepts/critiques of<br>
"relational aesthetics"<br>
e.g. Ute Meta Bauer (ed.): Verksted #2,3, 2004. “How to look at Art-Talk<br>
– How to look at Aesthetics – How to look at Capitalism.” Edited by<br>
Jonas Ekeberg, Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Oslo 2004.<br>
<br>
Royal College of Art (2000) Democracy: Socially engaged Art Practice,<br>
Compiled and edited by Mark Beasley, Ann Coxon, Emma Mahony, Emily<br>
Pethick. London: Royal College of Art<br>
<br>
<br>
Sennett, Richard (1986) The Fall of Public Man, Orig. pub. 1977. London:<br>
Faber<br>
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</div><div class="im">> What books or texts would list members suggest as “must reads” on<br>
> topics of democracy, equality, and personal liberty in relation to<br>
> the state? I’m familiar with the usual crowd: Locke, Rousseau,<br>
> Mill, Hamilton, Paine, Tocqueville, Schumpeter, etc.<br>
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