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Readings:

Thorstein Veblen, Clyde Barrow, Stanley Aronowitz, Neil Smith, Bernard Stiegler, Maurizio Lazzarato, and others

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Over a century ago, universities—and the broader quest for higher learning—were fundamentally transformed by their reconstitution under industrial norms. These knowledge factories, standardized and placed in service of dominant economic interests, became a legitimizing force that helped sustain the myth of meritocracy in the United States. Simultaneously, they functioned as publicly subsidized sites of skilled labor production, research, and technological development.

More recently, universities have expanded beyond their traditional ideological and economic functions to become sites of wealth extraction, facilitating an ever-growing class of professional-administrative nomads. No longer merely serving capitalist interests, universities have become surplus-producing enterprises, generating a bloated administrative class that mirrors the short-term calculations and nomadic sensibilities of financialized capitalism.

Through readings from Thorstein Veblen, Clyde Barrow, Stanley Aronowitz, Neil Smith, Bernard Stiegler, Maurizio Lazzarato, and others, this study group will critically examine the fate of the capitalist university and the challenges faced by academic labor today. Our discussions will focus on developing strategies to counter the damage inflicted on higher education, reasserting the agency of academic labor, and restoring the dignity of students.

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Through a careful reading of Bernard Stiegler, this seminar will explore the possibilities of revolutionary care and its connection to what is now called pirate care. Our discussions will critically redefine care in an era marked by extreme capitalist neglect and systemic waste.

This investigation will also analyze the epistemic-juridical-medical hegemony that shapes our daily lives—subjecting bodies to constant regimes of “health,” enforcing the normalization of productivity, and perpetuating the surveillance of the self.

We will ask:

Is philosophical discourse, particularly its Hegelian invocation of the wisdom of the Sage, essential for constructing a culture of revolutionary care?

What existing structures can we build upon to resist and redefine care beyond capitalist constraints?

Readings will include sections on care (Sorge) from Heidegger’s Being and Time, Eva Kittay on interdependency, and contemporary works on care work and pirate care.


Part II of this course will begin in late September and continue for another six weeks, concluding in mid-November 2025.

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Readings:

Volume I of Critique of Dialectical Reason

Search for a Method

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This seminar will address, through a radical-historical reading, the contemporary
hermeneutic and practical relevance of the late Sartre’s monumental engagement with Marx in Volume I of Critique of Dialectical Reason (1960 Editions Gallimard, and 1976, 1st Verso edition). Beginning with Sartre’s radical conversion to Historical Materialism, a reading of the Question of Method, our
course of inquiry will involve an adventure of Hegelian reconciliation betwee individual praxis and collective action, marking crucial distinctions betwee dogmatic and critical dialectic, constituted and constituent dialectic, defining and shaping groups in fusion, and the practico-inert with new forms of alienation and demoralization.

This seminar will involve a close reading of the text and attempt an understanding
of the processes of dialectical totalization, often confused with totalitarian thinking. We will try to penetrate the movement of dialectical circularity and History through the brilliant paths opened by Sartre in this work.

A weekly syllabus will be available for the schedule of readings and the historical thematics involved.

$175 for ten sessions or $20 per session.

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Readings:

Homo Datum and Socialized Cybernetics: Emerging Contours of the Latest Phase of Capitalism

Andrei Fursov: CONSPIROLOGY– The crypto-political economy of capitalism as a basis for the stud of Western elites

Understanding algorithmic societies: Hybrid intelligence and its zombies

Johann Chapoutot: Free to Obey

Stiegler, Bernard: Chapters 3 and 4 in For a New Critique of Political Economy, pages 14-70.

Wilden, Anthony: System and structure: Essays in Communication and Exchange

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This seminar will engage the strategic and systemic crisis of morphing human subjectivity from homo sapiens and homo economicus into what we call “Homo Datum.” Framed within the Cybernetic Revolution as the revolution of our time, we will attempt to:

1. Understand Capitalism at its limit and in its ends

2. Politics as War (rethinking the war machine)

3. Tracing the processes of socialized cybernetics

4. Production of new subjectivities from the ever-present generalized proletarianization of the world and the new biological being endowed as human capital and what this means for our future.

5. To attempt to encounter homo datum with possible alternatives through asking the question, What does it mean to be human in this automated society? What new subjectivity must be developed to confront and move beyond the automated and robotized society into new forms and practices of “communist eudaimonia?”

Please join us for a radical experiment in thought and practice in forging various imaginative approaches to encountering the brave new world we inhabit and in overcoming obstacles standing in the way of the promise of the liberating potential of the cybernetic revolution.

Our readings will include works by Bernard Stiegler on the effects of proletarianization of the world, Anthony Wilden on analog and digital communication, the important study on modern management techniques, Free to Obey by Johann Chapoutot, as well as a working paper by Artinian on homo datum, and other relevant studies. A comprehensive reading list will be disseminated to those participating in the seminar.

$135 for six sessions or $25 per session.

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