Unlearning and Deculturation Bibliography… an ongoing project.

Written By Sonja Sloane

A reading rainbow!

Gender and Sex

  • Ahmed, Sara. The Feminist Killjoy Handbook : The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way. First edition. New York, NY: Seal Press, Hachette Book Group, 2023.

  • Butler, Judith. "Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory." Theatre Journal 40, no. 4 (1988): 519-31.

  • Butler, Judith. “Melancholy Gender/Refused Identification” in Constructing Masculinity. Berger, M., Wallis, B., & Watson, S. (Eds.). (1st ed.). Routledge. 1995

  • Butler, Judith. Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex. London and New York, NY: Routledge, 2003.

  • Garlick, Steve.  Excerpts “Technologies of embodiment : toward a new critical theory of masculinity” in The Nature of Masculinity: Critical Theory, New Materialisms, and Technologies of Embodiment. UBC Press, 2016.

  • hooks, bell. Ain’t I a Woman. 1981. available here: https://hamtramckfreeschool.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/hooks-bell-aint-i-a-woman-black-woman-and-feminism.pdf

  • Federici, Sylvia. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation. Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 2004.

  • Federici, Sylvia. Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction and Feminist Struggle. Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia. 2012

  • Firestone, Shulamith. The Dialectic of Sex: A Case for Feminist Revolution. New York, NY: Bantam Books/William Morrow and Co., 1972

  • Irigaray, Luce. This Sex Which is Not One. Translated byCatherine Porter and Carolyn Burke, 170-192. Ithica, NY: Cornell University Press, 1985

  • Lugones, María. “Heterosexualism and the Colonial / Modern Gender System.” Hypatia 22, no. 1 (2007): 186–209.

  • Lonzi, Carla-Revolta Femminile. Let’s Spit on Hegel! Translated by Veronica Newman. NewYork, NY: Secunda, 2010.

  • Dalla Costa, Mariarosa and Selma James (1971). “The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community.” In Class: An Anthology, edited by Stanley Aronowitz and

  • Michael J. Roberts, 79-86. Oxford, UK: Wiley Blackwell, 2018.

  • Ottner, Sherry B. “Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture?” In Woman, Culture and Society, edited by M.Z. Rosaldo and L. Lamphere, 68-87. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1974

  • Mulvey, Laura. “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.” In Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings. Edited by Leo Braudy and Marshal Cohen, 833-844. New York and Oxford: Oxford UP, 1999.

  • International Development Research Centre (Canada). Economic Liberalization and Political Violence : Utopia or Dystopia? Edited by Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín and Gerd Schönwälder. London, Ottawa: Pluto Press ; International Development Research Centre, 2010.

  • Starblanket, Gina, ed. Making Space for Indigenous Feminism. 3rd edition. Halifax: Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing, 2024.

  • Smiley, Cherry. Not Sacred, Not Squaws : Indigenous Feminism Redefined. North Geelong, Victoria: Spinifex Press, 2023. https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-3146238015.

  • Tiqqun, Sonogram of a Potential. Available here https://illwill.com/print/sonogram-of-a-potential

Decoloniality

  • Lugones, Maria, and Patrick M. Crowley, eds. Decolonial Thinking : Resistant Meanings and Communal Other-Sense. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2025.

  • Tate, Shirley Anne. From Post-Intersectionality to Black Decolonial Feminism : Black Skin Affections. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.

Capitalism/Neoliberalism

  • Botz-Bornstein, Thorsten. The New Aesthetics of Deculturation : Neoliberalism, Fundamentalism and Kitsch. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019.

  • Harvey, David. A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Oxford Press. 2005

  • Debord, Guy. Society of the Spectacle. Detroit, MI: Black and Red, 2002

  • Weber, Max. The Protestant Ethics of Capitalism. Edited and translated by Peter Baehr and

  • Gordon C. Wells. New York and London: Penguin Books, 2002.

  • Hobsbawm, Eric. The Age of Capital. London, UK: Abacus Books, 1995.

  • Luxton, Meg, Susan Braedley, and Penetrating Neoliberalism: changing relations of gender, race, ability, and class York University) (2007: Neoliberalism and Everyday Life. Montréal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010.

  • Valencia, Sayak. Gore Capitalism. Semiotexte. 2018.

  • Wang, Jackie. Carceral Capitalism. Semitotexte. 2018

Anti-Systemic Action/Anarchy

  • The Invisible Committee, The coming Insurrection. Semiotext(e). 9-28 (available here https://iberian-connections.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/The-Coming-Insurrection-Semiotexte-Intervention-by-The-Invisible-Committee.pdf)

  • Tiqqun. Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young Girl, SEMIOTEXT(E)/Intervention Series. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012.

  • Tiqqun (Collective). This Is Not a Program. Los Angeles, CA: Semiotext(e), 2011.

Fascism

  • Gandesha, Samir, ed. Spectres of Fascism Historical, Theoretical and International Perspectives. London: Pluto, 2020. Print.

Critical Theory/Marxism

  • Adorno, Theodor and Max Horkheimer, “The Concept of Enlightenment” in Dialectics of Enlightenment. University of Stanford Press. 2002.

  • Althusser, Louis. On the Reproduction of Capitalism: Ideology and the Ideological State Apparatus. London and New York: Verso Books, 2014.

  • Lukács, György, History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics. Translated by Rodney Livingstone. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1971

  • Marcuse, Herbert. An Essay on Liberation. Boston: Beacon Press.1969.

  • Marcuse, Herbert. Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud. Boston: Beacon Press, 1966.

  • Marcuse, Herbert. One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1991.

  • Marcuse, Herbert. “Repressive Tolerance” (1965). In A Critique of Pure Tolerance, 95-137. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1969.

  • Ollman, Bertell. Social and Sexual Revolution: Essays on Marx and Reich. Boston, MA: Southend Press, 1979.

  • Rodney, Walter. Decolonial Marxism:Essays from the Pan-African Revolution. Verso Books 2022

Power/Domination/Technology

  • Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Translated by Alan Sheridan. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1995

  • Crawford, Kate. Atlas of AI. Yale University Press. 2014

Labour/Class

  • -Lazzarato, Mauricio. “Immaterial Labour.” In Radical Though in Italy: A Potential Politics. Edited by Paolo Virno and Michael Hardt, 133-147. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.

  • Maria Mies, Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour. Bloomsbury Press 2014.

  • Rodney, Walter. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Verso Books. 2018.

  • Davis, Angela. Women, Race and Class. Random House . 1981.

Race

  • Olson, Joel. The Abolition of White Democracy. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2004

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