Episodic live-streamed reading series, Home Cooking, 2021.
Hell is a Timeline [On Citizenship in Entropy], May 2, 2020. | Key words: Civic construction; political agency, citizenship
Boal, Iain A., Clark, T.J., Matthews, J. L. Matthews, Watts, Michael. Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War. Verso, 2006.
Berlant, Lauren. “Theory of Infantile Citizenship.” The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship. Duke University Press, 1997.
Culp, Robert. “Articulating Citizenship: Civic Education and Student Politics in Southeastern China, 1912-1940.” Harvard University Press, 2007.
Mbembe, Achille. On the Postcolony. University of California Press, 2001.
Mbembe, Achille. Necropolitics. Duke University Press, 2003.
Mbembe, Achille. Necropolitics. Duke University Press, 2019.
Tarkovsky, Andrey. Sculpting in Time: Tarkovsky The Great Russian Filmmaker Discusses His Art. University of Texas Press. 1989.
Wan, Amy J. Producing Good Citizens. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014.
Hell is a Timeline [On Time in Crisis], May 9, 2020. | Keywords: temporality; time; care; news cycles; dread; illness
Baraitser, Lisa. Enduring Time. Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
Edwards, David, et al. Propaganda Blitz: How The Corporate Media Distort Reality. Pluto Press, 2018.
Glissant, Édouard. Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays. University Press of Virginia, 1989.
Goldberg, David Theo. “In the Grip of Dread.” Los Angeles Review of Books, 9 Sept. 2018, lareviewofbooks.org/article/in-the-grip-of-dread/.
Hoffman, Amy. Hospital Time. Duke University Press, 1997.
Mbembe, Achille. On the Postcolony. University of California Press, 2001.
Puar, Jasbir K. Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times. Duke University Press, 2017.
Wu, Hung. “Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen Square and the Creation of a Political Space.” MCLC Resource Center, 4 Apr. 2015, u.osu.edu/mclc/book-reviews/remaking-beijing-tiananmen-square/.
Hell is a Timeline [With Fire, We Build], May 16, 2020. | Keywords: Mutual aid; activism; care; anger; commons
Appadurai, Arjun. Globalization. Duke University Press, 2003.
Baldwin, James. Nothing Personal
Berlant, Lauren. The Commons: Infrastructures for Troubled Times
Delanda, Manuela. War in the Age of Intelligent Machines.MIT Press, 1991
Lorde, Audre. The Uses of Anger.
Mishra, Pankaj. Age of Anger: A History of the Present. Picador, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
Spade, Dean. Solidarity Not Charity: Mutual Aid for Mobilization and Survival, in Friendship as Social Justice Activism. University of Chicago Press
Hell is a Timeline [Grief Brings Reckoning], May 22, 2020. | Keywords: Mourning; grief; ghosts; haunting; postcoloniality
Abbas, M. A. Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance. University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
Bacchetta, P., et al. Global Raciality: Empire, Postcoloniality, Decoloniality. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
Butler, Judith. Precarious Life: the Powers of Mourning and Violence. VERSO, 2020.
Gordon, Avery. Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination. University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Liu, Xiaobo, et al. No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013.
Hell is a Timeline [The Spectacle is a Weapon], May 30, 2020. | Keywords: Spectacle; capital; misinformation; empathy; terror machines
Boal, Iain A., T. J. Clark, Joseph Matthews, and Michael Watts. Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War. Verso Books, 2005.
Federici, Silvia, and Peter Linebaugh. Re-Enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons / Silvia Federici ; PM Press, 2018.
Hartman, Saidiya V. Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America. Oxford University Press, 2010.
Tilly, Charles, et al. War Making and State Making as Organized Crime. Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Williams, Evan Calder. Shard Cinema. Watkins Media Limited, 2017.
Hell is a Timeline [The Violent Fictions of Maps], June 6, 2020. | Keyword: Geography, colonialism, postcolonial; relations
Glissant Édouard. Poetics of Relation. Univ. of Michigan Press, 2010.
Lowe, Lisa. The Intimacies of Four Continents. Duke University Press, 2015.
Massey, Doreen Barbara. Geography Matters!: a Reader. Cambridge University Press, 1984.
Hell is a Timeline [Redaction as Revelation and Amnesia], June 13, 2020. | Keyword: Redaction; censored; surveillance; police abolition; resistance
Lee, Pamela M. Think Tank Aesthetics: Mid Century Modernism, the Cold War, and the Neoliberal Present. The MIT Press, 2020.
Linnemann, Travis and Corina Medley. Black sites, “dark sides”: War power, police power, and the violence of the (un)known”
McKittrick, Katherine. Demonic Grounds Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle. University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
Nesrellah, Melissa. The Mirrored Shield as Indigenous Fugitivity and Radical Glitchfrastructure
Hell is a Timeline [The Crisis of Our Lived Myths], July 4, 2020. | Keywords: Myths, state coercion; deep state; shallow state; disinformation; epistemicide
Davenport, Christian. Media Bias, Perspective, and State Repression: the Black Panther Party. Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Lindsey, Jason Royce. The Concealment of the State. Bloomsbury, 2013.
Santos, Boaventura de Sousa. Epistemologies of the South: Justice against Epistemicide. Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2017.
Santos, Boaventura de Sousa. The End of the Cognitive Empire: the Coming of Age of Epistemologies of the South. Duke University Press, 2018.
Hell is a Timeline [Crisis of Our Resistance Imagination], July 11, 2020. | Keywords: utopias; decolonization; diaspora; ethnonationalism; commons; ruins
Chow, Rey. Writing Diaspora. Indiana University Press, 1993.
Moten, Fred, and Stefano Harney. A Poetics of the Undercommons. Sputnik & Fizzle, 2016.
Stoler, Ann Laura. Imperial Debris: Reflections of Ruins and Ruination. Blackwell, 2008.
Tuck, Eve, and Yang, K Wayne. Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor.
Hell is a Timeline [Fear As A Weapon And A Shadow], July 18, 2020. | Keyword: totalitarianism; fear politics; white terror
Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism. Harcourt Brace, 1985.
Chen, Ketty W. Disciplining Taiwan: The Kuomingtang’s Methods of Control During the White Terror Era (1947-1987). Taiwan International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 4, No. 4, Winter 2008. 185-210.
Gordon, Avery. Ghostly Matters: Haunting and The Sociological Imagination. University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Ma, Jean. Melancholy Drift: Marking Time in Chinese Cinema. Hong Kong Univ. Press, 2010.
Hell is a Timeline [The State Names Violence], July 25, 2020. | Keyword: state coercion; state violence; policing; Black lives matter; necropolitics; violent entrepreneurs; armed groups
Ong, Lynette H. “Thugs for Hire: Subcontracting of State Coercion and State Capacity in China”
Maynard, Robyn. Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present. Fernwood, 2017.
Mbembe, Achille. Necropolitics. Duke University Press, 2019.
Volkov, Vadim. Violent Entrepreneurs: The Use of Force in The Making of Russian Capitalism. Cornell University Press, 2002.
Hell is a Timeline [The Body in Crisis], September 26, 2020. | Keyword: body; illness; tear gas; miscarriage; refugee crisis; torture; pain; trauma
Lewis, Sophie. “Amniotechnics.” Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism against Family. Verso, 2020. 342–349.
Lazard, Carolyn. “How to Be a Person in the Age of Autoimmunity.” Carolyn Lazard, 2013, static1.squarespace.com/static/55c40d69e4b0a45eb985d566/t/58cebc9dc534a59fbdbf98c2/1489943709737/HowtobeaPersonintheAgeofAutoimmunity+%25281%2529.pdf.
Physicians for Human Rights, Weaponizing Tear Gas: Bahrain’s Unprecedented Use of Toxic Chemical Agents Against Civilians, August, 2012. https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Bahrain-TearGas-Aug2012-small.pdf
Scarry, Elaine. The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World. Oxford University Press, 1985.
Hell is a Timeline [The Exile and The Crisis of Placehood], October 10, 2020. | Keyword: Exile; trauma; belonging; citizenship; migrants; refugee crisis
Cvetkovich, Ann. Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures. Duke University Press, 2003.
Naficy, Hamid. The Making of Exile Cultures: Iranian Television in Los Angeles. Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1993.
Said, Edward W. The Edward Said Reader. Granta, 2001.
Sharma, Nandita. Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants. Duke University Press, 2020.
Hell is a Timeline [Crisis of Origin Stories], October 24, 2020. | Keyword: origin stories; religion; enlightenment; postcolonial
Baker, Annie. The Antipodes. Theater Communications Group, 2018.
Bates, David William. States of War: Enlightenment Origins of the Political. Columbia University Press, 2011.
Carey, Daniel. Festa, Lynn M. “Reading Contrapuntally: Robinson Crusoe, Slavery and Postcolonial Theory.” The Postcolonial Enlightenment: Eighteenth-Century Colonialism and Postcolonial Theory. Oxford University Press, 2009.
Deloria, Vine. God Is Red: A Native View of Religion. Fulcrum, 1994.
Hell is a Timeline [The Crisis of Legitimacy], November 21, 2020. | Keywords: corporate sovereignty; open-source software; armed groups; United Nations; legitimacy; rule of law
Barkan, Joshua. Corporate Sovereignty: Law and Government Under Capitalism. University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
Schäfer, Mirko Tobias. Bastard Culture!: How User Participation Transforms Cultural Production. Amsterdam University Press, 2011.
Schlichte, Klaus. In The Shadow of Violence: The Politics of Armed Groups. Campus Verlag, 2009.
Thakur, Ramesh. “Law, Legitimacy and the United Nations.” Legality and Legitimacy in Global Affairs, by Richard A. Falk et al., Oxford University Press, 2012.