Reading List // January 2020
Selections from the Web:
Bloom, Danny. 2019. “‘Cosmism’ is a new Silicon Valley ‘religion’ in California with ‘New Age’ frames.” The Times of Israel. January 7.
Chao, Sophie. 2020. “Corporate ‘Sorcerers’ Reveal the Magical Power of Capitalism.” Sapiens. January 22.
Cooper, Travis Warren. 2019. “The Strange Rites of Celebrity.” Sapiens. July 25.
Donato, Donald. 2020. “‘Respect for Graduate Student Workers Act’ introduced in House and Senate.” People’s World. January 27.
Gobry, Pascal-Emmanuel. 2014. “Peter Thiel and The Cathedral.” Patheos. June 24.
Northon, Karen. 2020. “NASA Selects First Commercial Destination Module for International Space Station.” NASA. January 27.
Premiyak, Liza. 2018. “Young Pioneers: the Moscow kids reviving a Soviet youth movement.” The Calvert Journal. September 4.
Books and Journal Articles:
Books:
Asad, Talal, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, and Saba Mahmood. 2013. Is Critique Secular? Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech. New York: Fordham University Press.
Dean, Jodi. 2019. Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging. New York: Verso.
Wark, McKenzie. 2019. Capital is Dead. Is This Something Worse? New York: Verso.
Journal Articles:
Pearlman, Ellen. 2019. “The Resurgence of Russian Cosmism.” PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art 41 (2): 85–92.
Simakova, Marina. 2018. “Russian Cosmism: A Foretaste of Revolution.” e-flux journal 88.
Book Chapters:
Kripal, Jeffrey J. 2007. “Superpowers: Cold War Psychics and Citizen Diplomats.” In Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion, 315–338. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.