Mondays, 7:30-9:30pm
22 January – 26 March 2007

What forces brought an alleged ‘post-Fordist’ regime into being? What is its composition? What are the possibilities and limits of this concept? How is it manifesting in labour, the city, cultural production…? How, and with what effects, are flexibilization and decentralization operating as new forms of control? How do these forms of control coexist with centralized command? How does it relate to neoliberalism? What radical proposals and potentialities are emerging under conditions of advanced post-Fordism?

Reading List

• Bob Jessop. “The Regulation Approach.”
• David Harvey. “Fordism” and “From Fordism to Flexible Accumulation.”
• Michel Aglietta. “The Transformation of the Wage-Earners’ Conditions of Life.”
• Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello. “The Formation of the Projective City” and “1968: Crisis and Revival of Capitalism.”
• John Holloway. “The Great Bear: Post-Fordism and Class Struggle.”
• Bob Jessop. “Post-Fordism and the State.”
• Antonio Negri. “Archaeology and Project: The Mass Worker and the Social Worker.”
• Thomas Atzert. “About Immaterial Labor and Biopower.”
• Gilles Deleuze. “Postscript on the Control Societies.”
• Brian Holmes. “The Flexible Personality.”
• J-K Gibson-Graham. “Post-Fordism as Politics.”
• Linda McDowell. “Father and Ford Revisited: Gender, Class, and Employment Change in the New Millennium.”
• Kathi Weeks. “The Refusal of Work as Demand and Perspective.”
• Andrea Fumagilli. “Ten Propositions on Basic Income: Basic Income in a Flexible Accumulation System.”
• David Harvey. “Neoliberalism and the Restoration of Class Power.”