Our april text is shulamith firestone’s ‘the dialectic of sex’. join us to talk about reproductive labour, capitalism, technology and technofuturisms, radical feminism, madness, and more.

the book is available as a pdf here: http://biopolitics.kom.uni.st/Shulamith%20Firestone/The%20Dialectic%20of%20Sex_%20The%20Case%20for%20Feminist%20Revolution%20(139)/The%20Dialectic%20of%20Sex_%20The%20Case%20for%20Feminis%20-%20Shulamith%20Firestone.pdf

this group is trans-safe. we are open to everyone (including those from beyond the university).

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The second session we are going to focus on political economy. See reading materials below. Please finish reading them in advance and come to discuss with us 🙂

1. An Introduction to Marx’s Three Volumes of Capital, by Michael Heinrich, pages 39-49, 93-97 .

2. Capital Pt 1, Marx, Chapter 26 ‘The Secret of Primitive Accumulation’

3. Summary of Caliban and the Witch, Silvia Federici Ch 2: The Accumulation of Labor and the Degradation of Women: Constructing “Difference” in the “Transition to Capitalism” A feminist account of primitive accumulation and the exploitative nature of social reproduction under capitalism.

4. Class in the 21st Century: Asset Inflation and the new logic of inequality, Adkins, Cooper, Konings This is a publicly available journal article. Only read up to (and excluding) “Rethinking class theory”. So is a focus on Australian history of financialisation.