COMPOSTING #12: Capitalist Ruins

Tuesday November 8, 4-5:30 | Anna Tsing “Sorting out Commodities”  + Laura Bear et al “GEns: A Feminist Manifesto for the Study of Capitalism” | Facilitated by Susie Pratt

Location: Brennan McCallum building, Level 8, SOPHI Common Room, the University of Sydney

Key Reading:

• Laura Bear, Karen Ho, Anna Tsing and Sylvia Yanagisako “Gens: A Feminist Manifesto for the Study of Capitalism“, Cultural Anthropology, (March 30, 2015).
• Anna Tsing “Sorting out Commodities: How Capitalist Value is made Through Gifts”, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, no. 3, vol. 1 (2013: pp 21-39 | if pressed for time pp21–26 and 37-39).

Optional Reading/Listening:

• Interview with Anna Tsing on her 2015 book The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins.On the Cultures of Energy Podcast.
• Anna Tsing, “Arts of Inclusion, or, How to Love a Mushroom” Australian Humanities Review, no. 50, vol. May (2011).

Questions:

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