Authentic Self

.

Virtue Ethics:

• Stoic virtue ethics (Matthew Sharpe)
• Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics (Nussbaum)
• Anarchism: Ethics and Meta-Ethics (Benjamin Franks)
• Can Franks’ Practical Anarchism Avoid Moral Relativism? by Thomas Swann
• Virtue and Utopia (Andy Blunden)
• Super fantabulistic introductions to virtue and existentialist ethics here
• Martha C Nussbaum – Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics and The Fragility of Goodness Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy
• Andrew Fiala – Tolerance And The Ethical Life

Deontologist:

• On Goodness and Normativity (Judith Jarvis Thomson)
• A Defense of Abortion (Judith Jarvis Thomson)
• Kant and the Constitutional Model (Christine Korsgaard)
• The Nature and Importance of Rights (Tom Regan)
• Colonizing England and the Naming of Animals (Corey Lee Wrenn)
• Course Notes on Kant (Daniel Kaufman)
• Groundwork for the Metaphysic of Morals (Immanuel Kant)
• Intuition and Morals (Daniel A. Kaufman)
• The Right and the Good (W.D. Ross.)
• How to Make Good Decisions and Be Right All the Time (Ian King)

Subjectivist/Intuitionist:

• Scott Alexander on the distinction between axiology and morality
• Course Notes on Anscombe (Daniel Kaufman)
• Course Notes on H.A. Prichard. (Kaufman)
• Ethics, Criteria, and Moral “Thickness” (Daniel Kaufman)
• Of the Standard of Taste by David Hume (1909)
• Hegel – Lectures on the Philosophy of History
• Wittgenstein – A Wittgensteinian Way with Paradoxes

Nihilist:

• Stirner and the Politics of the Ego (Saul Newman)
• The Scientific Image of Man
• Ethical Nihilism / Moral Skepticism / Existentialism / Speculative Realism
• Agamben Homo Sacer animatic (Tommie Soro video)
• Optimistic Nihilism (Kurzgesagt video)
• ‘Nailing Descartes to the wall’: Animal Rights, Veganism and Punk Culture,” by Will Boisseau and Jim Donaghey
• Disturbing Places of Inter-Species Violence That Are Hidden in Plain Sight
• The problem of not-knowing, or knot-knowing (Cori Wong)
• Beyond Free and Equal: Subalternity and the Limits of Liberal-Democracy
• Contemporary Anarchism, Animal Liberation and the Implications of New Philosophy by Aragorn Eloff
• The Ethics of Post-Anarchism by Saul Newman
• Peter Harvey – An Introduction to Buddhism Teachings, History and Practices and The Selfless Mind Personality: Consciousness and Nirvana in Early Buddhism
• Montaigne – Essays
• Kafka – The Trial
• Camus – The Rebel
• Beauvoir – The Ethics of Ambiguity,
• Butler – Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
• Bauman – Modernity and it’s Outcasts

Evolutionary:

• Evolutionary Ethics by Robert Wright

.

Anarchist

• Jack Snyder – Anarchy and Culture; Insights from the Anthropology of War
• Saul Newman – The Politics of Postanarchism
• Duane Rousselle – Post-Anarchism A Reader
• Zygmunt Bauman – Modernity and the Holocaust + Modernity and it’s Outcasts
• Greg Martin – Understanding Social Movements
• Laurence Davis – The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed
• Terry Pinkard – Hegel’s Phenomenology: The Sociality of Reason
• Richard Day – Gramsci is Dead
• Being Inappropriate, Queer Anarchism in Context
• Refusing to Wait: Anarchism and Intersectionality

Fighting For Ourselves, After Post-Anarchism, Anarchy after Leftism, Anarchism and the Advent of Paris Dada, Granny Made me an Anarchist, Sing A Battle Song, Action Directe, Zapatista Spring, Clan destines The pirate Journals of an Irish Exile, Days of War Nights of Love, The Temporary Autonomous Zone, The Wretched of the Earth, Defiance, Feral Children and Clever Animals, Decolonizing Nature, A People’s History of the Second World War.

.

Feminist

Black Girl Dangerous, The Summer We Got Free, Reclaiming the F Word The New Feminist Movement, There is No Word For It, Can the Subaltern Speak?, Fire with Fire, Feminist Identity Development and Activism in Revolutionary Movements, Ecofeminist Philosophy.

.

Refugee studies

Articles

• From “refugee” to “migrant” in Calais solidarity activism: Re-staging undocumented migration for a future politics of asylum – Naomi Millner
• Acts of Demonstration Mapping the Territory of Non-Citizenship
• Deportable labour and the spectacle of security – De Genova
• Migrant Citizenships and Autonomous Mobility’s – Peter Nyers
• The colonial and post-colonial dimensions of Algerian migration to France Jim House

Books

• Border Watch – Alexandra Hall
• God’s Heart Has No Borders: How Religious Activists Are Working for Immigrant Rights
• Personal Relationships Across Cultures By Robin Goodwin
• Storm and sanctuary: the journey of Ethiopian and Eritrean women refugees + Not Born a Refugee Woman – Helena Moussa
• Migration and Social Cohesion in the UK – Nicola Mai
• Agency of Their Own: Sex Worker Union Organizing
• The Two Mafias: A Transatlantic History, 1888-2008 – By Salvatore Lupo
• Identities, Discourses and Experiences Young People of North African Origin in France
• Europe and The People Without History
• Paradoxes of Cultural Recognition (Research in Migration and Ethnic Relations)

Land of Strangers, Sans-papiers : l’archaïsme fatal, This Place Will Become Home: Refugee Repatriation to Ethiopia, New Age Travellers: Uproarious or Uprooted?, The Tragedy of a Generation; The Rise and Fall of Jewish Nationalism in Eastern Europe, Asylum Migration and Community, The Beast, The Circuit; Stories from the life of a migrant child, World of Our Fathers, Mississippi in Africa.

.

Agency

• rabble of butterflies: Wanderings and ponderings in South East Asia
• The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
• Two Cheers for Anarchism; Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play
• New Perspectives in Political Ethnography
• Philosophical Ethnography or, How Philosophy and Ethnography Can Live Together in the World of Educational Research – Walter Feinberg
• Agency in the Margins: Stories of Outside Rhetoric
• The hobo the sociology of the homeless man 1889 by Nels Anderson with Chicago Council of Social Agencies
• Militant Ethnography: Political Engagement and Social Movements Research
• You’re not going to right about this are you?
• Chicana Feminism and Postmodernist Theory
• Social Psychology – John D. DeLamater, Daniel J. Myers, Jessica L. Collett
• Performance Ethnography: Critical Pedagogy and the Politics of Culture
• Handbook of Critical Psychology edited by Ian Parker
• Teaching Critical Thinking in Psychology A Handbook of Best Practices

.

Dis-identification

• Ideology, Discourse, and Cultural Studies: The Contribution of Michel Pêcheux
• Queer Disidentification
• ‘‘Give up Activism’’ and Change the World in Unknown Ways Or, Learning to Walk with Others on Uncommon Ground by Paul Chatterton
• Commentating on an article titled, “Marriage Will Never Set Us Free”
• Give Up Activism (Do or Die)

.

Buddhism

• An Introduction to Buddhism Teachings, History and Practices and
• The Selfless Mind Personality: Consciousness and Nirvana in Early Buddhism by Peter Harvey
• Buddhism and Modern Psychology by Robert Wright (Playlist)
• Sick Progeny? Buddhism and Psychotherapy
• The Hidden Agenda of the Political Mind
• A Feminist Exegesis of Non-Self: On Classical Buddhist Understanding of Personhood and Identity
• Wittgenstein and Zen Buddhism one practice, no dogma.
• The Silence of Buddha and his Contemplation of the Truth
• Forcing the Truth of the Buddha Event
• The Rational Basis of Buddhism
• Moonshadows, Conventional Truth in Buddhist Philosophy by The Cowherds

.

Power of suggestion

• How Self-Interest Shapes Our Opinions and Why We Won’t Admit It
• A Solution to the Mysteries of Morality -DeScioli and Kurzban
• The Physiology of Sexist and Racist Oppression
• The Racial Contract
• Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance

.

Social justice organizing

• Cultural Anthropology, An Applied Perspective
• Conformity and Conflict (2008)
• Who Is Oakland: Anti-Oppression Activism, the Politics of Safety, and State Co-optation
• To Change Everything
• Activist Club or On the Concept of Cultural Houses, Social Centers & Museums by Dmitry Vilensky
• organising social spaces as if social relations matter

.

Self-theory

• Feral Children and Clever Animals Reflections on Human Nature
• Street Smarts and Critical Theory Listening to the Vernacular By Thomas McLaughlin
• Critical thinking as an anarchist weapon
• Between Borders: Pedagogy and the Politics of Cultural Studies By Henry A. Giroux, Peter McLaren
• An Ethics of Improvisation: Aesthetic Possibilities for a Political Future By Tracey Nicholls
• The Power of Feelings: Personal Meaning in Psychoanalysis, Gender and Culture
• An Anarchist Psychotherapy: Ecopsychology and a Pedagogy of Life

.

Rewilding/ Preservationist

• Creatures of Empire; How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America
• Ecocriticism: The Essential Reader
• Decolonizing Nature, Strategies for Conservation in a Postcolonial Era

.

Internationalist Anarchism

• Anarchism in Chinese Political Culture – Peter G. Zarrow

.

Descriptive books

• Food for free
• Creating a flower meadow – Yvette Verner
• The Complete Urban Farmer – David Wickers
• The Good Life – Helen and Scott Nearing
• 25-terrific-science-y-books
• non-fiction

.

Art

• Mike Mills
• Living Utopia Film Biography
• Greatest documentaries of all time
• By, For, and About: The “’Real’” Problem in the Feminist Film Movement By Shilyh Warren

.

Writing

• Our Greatest Political Novelist?
• The Jaguar Smile by Salman Rushdie
• Radical Writing Markets
• ‘Then It All Came Down’: Truman Capote Interviews Bobby Beausoleil. San Quentin, 1973.
• Resources & Links
• 16 Nonfiction Forms And How To Write Them
• Calais Migrant Factgasm
• When Kerouac Met Dostoyevsky by Stephen J. Gertz

.

Literature

Poe, Gautier, Baudelaire, Coleridge (atmospheric). Breton’s Surrealist manifesto, Hesse’s Steppenwolf. Absurdist texts; Kafka’s The Trial, Melville’s Moby Dick, Machado de Assis’s O Alienista, Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s The Trapp, Orwell’s 1984, Bradbury Fahenreit, Gogol, Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Nabokov,

Anne Frank: The diary of a young girl – the definitive edition, Bill Hicks, Boy George, Off the Map, On the Road, travel zines and more Non-fiction.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, The Stone Gods, Machine of Death A collection of stories about people who know how they will die, Into the wild, The heart is a lonely hunter, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, Unfinished Tales The Lost Lore of Middle-earth

.

Illustration

Dulk Wins, Robert Crumb, Guy Delisle, Duncan: the Wonder Dog, Dykes to watch out for, Twisted Sisters, Fabulous Fury Freak Brothers, Persepolis, Surrogates, Waltz with Bashir, Bad Arguments, The Elements of Style, Morganmuffel, Calvin and Hobbes and Children’s books.

.

Philosophy

• Gautama – An Introduction to Buddhism Teachings, History and Practices and The Selfless Mind Personality: Consciousness and Nirvana in Early Buddhism
• Cicero – Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics
• Montaigne – Essays
• Hegel – Lectures on the Philosophy of History
• Wittgenstein – A Wittgensteinian Way with Paradoxes
• Kafka – The Trial
• Camus – The Rebel
• Beauvoir – The Ethics of Ambiguity,
• Butler – Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
• Bauman – Modernity and it’s Outcasts

.

Community oriented solidarity

• Solidarity Activism, Identity Politics and Popular Education by Tim Anderson
• Cultures clash as gentrification engulfs Capitol Hill
• Liverpool rent strikes
• IRA man holding up bookies, giving money to row of houses, holding up the rent collector, giving the money back to the bookies.
• Act up, robbing banks to pay for aids drugs
• Kurdish youth occupation,
• Gentrification turkey,
• Justice for women like Emma Humphreys
• Vigilante groups like the Lavender panthers and Bash back
• Emma Sulkowicz’s ‘mattress protest’ and ‘this is not a rape’
• Black lives matter