CSE Midlands Summer Reading schedule

Following our recent launch, we have agreed on the following for our summer reading schedule. We also intend to hold a number of seminars and research events over the coming months – watch this space!

Schedule below – all welcome!

Monday JUNE 1 – Marxism and the Philosophy Internal Relations – University of Birmingham, Muirhead 415, 12.00 noon

• ‘Internal relations’ and Marx’s ‘materialist conception of history’, by Ted Winslow: http://cnc.sagepub.com/content/39/1/95.abstract
• The dialectics of unity and difference in the constitution of wage-labour: On internal relations and working-class formation, by David McNally: http://cnc.sagepub.com/content/39/1/131.abstract

Monday June 22 – The State – University of Birmingham, Muirhead 431, 12.00 noon

• The Political (1979), by Mario Tronti: https://viewpointmag.com/2014/09/02/the-political-1979/
• The Ends of the State, by Joshua Clover and Jasper Bernes: https://viewpointmag.com/2014/10/12/the-ends-of-the-state/
• The State Against the State, by Nina Power: https://viewpointmag.com/2014/10/02/the-state-against-the-state/

Monday July 13 – Operaismo (Workerism), University of Birmingham, Muirhead 415, 12.00 noon

• Workerism Beyond Fordism: On the Lineage of Italian Workerism, by Sergio Bologna: http://viewpointmag.com/2014/12/15/workerism-beyond-fordism-on-the-lineage-of-italian-workerism/
• Matteo Pasquinelli, 2014, ‘To Anticipate and Accelerate: Italian Operaismo and Reading Marx’s Notion of the Organic Composition of Capital’, Rethinking Marxism: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08935696.2014.888833

Monday 14 SEPTEMBER Workers’ Inquiry, University of Birmingham, Muirhead 431, 12.00 noon

• • The workers’ inquiry from Trotskyism to Operaismo: A political methodology for investigating the workplace, by Jamie Woodcock: http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/workers%E2%80%99-inquiry-trotskyism-operaismo-political-methodology-investigating-Sworkplace
  • Follow the money? Value theory and social inquiry, by Frederick H. Pitts: http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/follow-money-value-theory-and-social-inquiry

OCTOBER 5 – Autumn organising meeting & readings, University of Birmingham, Muirhead 431, 12.00 noon

• • Theses on Feuerbach, by Karl Marx: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.pdf
  • Learning Not to Labour, by Stevphen Shukaitis: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08935696.2014.888835
  • A workers’ inquiry or an inquiry of workers?, by Christopher Wellbrook: http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/workers%E2%80%99-inquiry-or-inquiry-workers