Theory: Open Reading Group on Class/ism

Since the beginning of 2023, the TQW theory programme has been focusing on class and classism in relation to the performing arts. After a lab and a Research Affiliation in spring, we invite anyone interested in the topic to a monthly reading group where we can explore new ideas, discuss texts, debate concepts and share experiences and visions. Hosted by Anna Leon.

The texts will be selected from:

Wed 11.10.

• Cynthia Cruz: The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class
• Orian Brook, Dave O’Brien & Mark Taylor: Culture Is Bad for You: Inequality in the Cultural and Creative Industries
• Martha Rosler: Culture Class
• Joe Scanlan: Classism: An Introduction

Wed 15.11.

• Angela Davis: Women, Race & Class
• Cedric Robinson: Black Marxism
• Andrea d’Atri: Bread and Roses: Gender and Class Under Capitalism
• bell hooks: Where We Stand: Class Matters

Wed 13.12.

• McKenzie Wark: Capital Is Dead: Is This Something Worse?
• Anna Tsing: The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
• Kohei Saito: Capital in the Anthropocene
• Dave Beech: Art and Postcapitalism: Aesthetic Labour, Automation and Value Production