THE OPENING DECADE OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY:
 MAJOR WORKS OF THEORY AND CULTURAL STUDIES

MATERIALS

Pierre Bourdieu, On Television
Marc Bousquet, How the University Works
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Multitude:  War and Democracy in the Age of Empire
David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism
Walter Benn Michaels, The Trouble with Diversity
Retort Collective, Afflicted Powers:  Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War
Craig Womack, Red on Red:  Native American Literary Separatism

COURSE SCHEDULE

Introduction

Leitch, "Theory Ends"
Leitch and Lewis, "U.S.:  Cultural Studies

I. Identity:  Race versus Class

Womack, Red on Red

Michaels, The Trouble with Diversity

II. Media and the Public Sphere

Bourdieu, On Television

Retort Collective, Afflicted Powers

III. Neoliberalism, the Corporate University, and Resistance

Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism

Bousquet, How the University Works

Hardt and Negri, Multitude

IV. Research Reports

Participants Report on Research Projects