This digital book project accompanies a year-long seminar series entitled "Critique & Praxis 13/13" at the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought ("CCCCT") at Columbia University. The series will read and discuss thirteen contemporary texts in critical theory that address the question "What is to be done?"
Each of the thirteen seminars will include essays by invited guests, reading resources, a web cast recording of the seminar, and other materials.
The seminars are open to the public and simultaneously web cast for those who cannot attend in person. There is also a way to participate in the seminar virtually in order to pose questions and comments. Information about virtual access is here.
In Critique & Praxis 13/13, we will be reading, among others (the full list of books is here):
Chantal Mouffe, For a Left Populism (Verso Books, 2018).
Judith Butler, Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly (Harvard University Press, 2015).
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Commonwealth (Harvard University Press, 2011).
Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study (Minor Compositions, 2013).
Bruno Latour, Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climactic Regime (2018).
Our guests at the seminars will include Amna Akbar, Amy Allen, Aristides Baltas, Seyla Benhabib, Homi Bhabha, Susan Buck-Morss, Eduardo Cadava, Aysen Candas, Robin Celikates, Carolin Emcke, Didier Fassin, Zeynep Gambetti, Saygun Gokariksel, Heather Love, Steven Lukes, Karuna Mantena, Allegra McLeod, Jan-Werner Müller, Judith Revel, Martin Saar, Renata Salecl, Jason Stanley, Ann Stoler, Nandini Sundar, Brandon Terry, Heather Ann Thompson, Jackie Wang, Ken Wark, and Mikhaïl Xifaras, among others. These guests will be in conversation with Columbia University faculty and affiliates of the CCCCT, including Etienne Balibar, Partha Chatterjee, Jean Cohen, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Karl Ekeman, Robert Gooding-Williams, Stathis Gourgouris, Jack Halberstam, Saidiya Hartman, Marianne Hirsch, Reinhold Martin, Rosalind Morris, John Rajchman, Anupama Rao, Camille Robcis, Emmanuelle Saada, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Michael Taussig, Adam Tooze, Nadia Urbinati, and Jesús Velasco, among others.
You can learn more about the Praxis 13/13 series on its website here and about the CCCCT here.