Readings - Critical Perspectives (Ways of Looking)

Reading List

SharePoint Folder link to all .pdf articles (you’ll need a utoronto.ca email to access it).

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Bob Joseph, 21 Things You May Not Know about the Indian Act (Port Coquitlam, BC: Indigenous Relations Press, 2018), 1-123.

Amitav Gosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017), 3-84.

Achille Mbembe, “The Universal Right to Breathe,” Africa is a Country (17 June 2020). Accessed 12 June 2022, https://africasacountry.com/2020/06/the-universal-right-to-breathe

Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2013), ix-x, 205-215, 254-267.

David Wallace-Wells, “The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming,” New York Magazine (10 July 2017). https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.html?

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David R. Boyd, The Rights of Nature: A Legal Revolution That Could Save the World (Toronto: ECW Press, 2017), 206-233.

Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015), 1-25, 155-163.

Elizabeth Kolbert, “A Lake in Florida Suing to Protect Itself,” The New Yorker (18 April 2022). Accessed 19 April 2022, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/04/18/a-lake-in-florida-suing-to-protect-itself

Hillary Beaumont, “What Would It Look Like to Take the First Nations Water Crisis Seriously?” The Walrus (18 October 2019, updated 13 February 2020). Accessed 12 Jun 2022, https://thewalrus.ca/what-would-it-look-like-to-take-the-first-nations-water-crisis-seriously/#

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Te Nehisi Coates, “The Case for Reparations,” The Atlantic (June 2014 issue). Accessed 12 June 2022. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/

Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Luke Charles Harris, Daniel Martinez HoSang, and George Lipsitz (eds.), Seeing Race Again: Countering Colorblindness across the Disciplines (Oakland, University of California Press, 2019), 1-19.

Arundathi Roy, “The Pandemic is a Portal,” Financial Times (3 April 2020). Accessed 6 June 2023, https://www.ft.com/content/10d8f5e8-74eb-11ea-95fe-fcd274e920ca

Sekou Cook, Hip Hop Architecture, (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021) 003-007; 013-079

Craig K. Wilkins, The Aesthetics of Equity (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007) 3-29

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Haruki Murakami, “Reality A and Reality B”, New York Times (29 November 2010). Accessed 12 June 2022, https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/02/opinion/global/02iht-GA06-Murakami.html?searchResultPosition=3

Kate Crawford, Atlas of AI (New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2021), 22-51.

Ted Chiang, “Chat GPT is a Blurry jpg of the Web,” New Yorker (February 9, 2023). Accessed 12 June 2023, https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web

Hito Steyerl, “In Defense of the Poor Image,” e-Flux Journal (Issue #10, November 2009). https://www.e-flux.com/journal/10/61362/in-defense-of-the-poor-image/

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Max Haiven, Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire (London: Pluto Press, 2022), 61-84.

Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works (New York: Viking 2022), 76-102.

Silvia Federici, “Commons Against and Beyond Capitalism,” in: Re-Enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons, edited by Silvia Federici and Peter Linebaugh (Oakland: PM Press, 2019), 85-98.

Roland Barthes, “Myth Today” in Mythologies (New York: Hill & Wang, 1972), 109-159.

Stuart Hall, “The Work of Representation” in Representation: Cultural Representation and Signifying Practices (London: Sage, 1997), 13-58.