Yet another delay on getting to Week's "Refusal of Work," but I'm going to blame this one on current affairs and the drinking-from-the-fire-hose that is the Trump news cycle. Following the massive No Kings protests, I thought it best to address the outpouring of frustration, righteous indignation, anger, outrage, and fear (not to mention the stark juxtaposition sad-Trump's big boy parade), and talk about the stranger economics of affects.

We’re going to be discussing some authors that haven’t come up yet, namely Teresa Brennan, an Australian feminist philosopher, and Sara Ahmed, a British-Australian philosopher working in intersectionality – feminism, queer theory, critical race theory, discrimination, oppression, racism, sexism, etc.). We’ll also be leaning on some authors we’ve addressed before, like Deleuze and Guattari, Benjamin, Bataille, and, yes, even Marx (a little).

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Obligatory bibliography, or books (and articles) you may also want to check out (man, it's a list this time!):

Ahmed, Sara. 2004. "Affective Economies". Social Text. 22, no. 2: 117-139.

Ahmed, Sara. 2006. "ORIENTATIONS: Toward a Queer Phenomenology". GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. 12, no. 4: 543-574.

Ahmed, Sara. The Cultural Politics of Emotion. 2015.

Bataille, Georges, and Robert Hurley. The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy. 1. New York, NY: Zone Books, 2007

Benjamin, Walter, Harry Zohn, Hannah Arendt, and Leon Wieseltier. “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” in Illuminations: [Essays and Reflections]. New York: Schocken Books, 2013.

Brennan, Teresa. The Transmission of Affect. Cornell University Press, 2014.

Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2009.

Deleuze, Gilles, Félix Guattari, Hugh Tomlinson, and Graham Burchell. What Is Philosophy? 2015.

Marx, Karl. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. London, UK: Penguin, 1992.

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, and Thomas Common. The Gay Science. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 2006.

Rajchman, John. The Deleuze Connections. Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]: MIT Press, 2009.

Surin, Kenneth. Revised Edition Edited by Adrian Parr. "Socius."

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