Secondary Sources

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Iris Young’s “Five Faces of Oppression”

Young, Iris. “Five Faces of Oppression.” Oppression, Privilege, and Resistance: Theoretical Perspectives on Racism, Sexism, and Heterosexism, edited by Lisa Maree Heldke and Peg O’Connor, McGraw-Hill, 2004, pp. 37-63. Dispatches from Room 101, https://room101.jtodd.info/readings2023/1-Young.pdf

Selections from Sigmund Freud’s Civilization & Its Discontents

Freud, Sigmund. Civilization and Its Discontents, Translated by James Strachey, Norton, 1961. Dispatches from Room 101, https://room101.jtodd.info/readings2023/2-Freud.pdf

Umberto Eco’s “Ur-Fascism”

Eco, Umberto. “Ur-Fascism.” New York Review of Books, 22 Jun. 1995, http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1856. Dispatches from Room 101, https://room101.jtodd.info/readings2023/3-Eco.pdf

Selections from Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan

Hobbes, Thomas. Of Man, Being the First Part of Leviathan. Vol. XXXIV, Part 5. The Harvard Classics. New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1909–14; Bartleby.com, 2001. www.bartleby.com/34/5/. Dispatches from Room 101, https://room101.jtodd.info/readings2023/4-Hobbes.pdf

Selections from Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed.

Freire, Paulo. “Chapter 1.” Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Translated by Myra Bergman Ramos, Herder and Herder, 1972. History Is a Weapon, https://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon2/pedagogy/pedagogychapter1.html. Dispatches from Room 101, https://room101.jtodd.info/readings2023/5-Freire.pdf

Kim Stanley Robinson’s “Dystopias Now”

Robinson, Kim Stanley. “Dystopias Now.” Commune, Fall 2018, https://communemag.com/dystopias-now. Dispatches from Room 101, https://room101.jtodd.info/readings2023/6-Robinson.pdf

Legacy Readings

Texts in this section are no longer required for this class, but they still offer some useful insights.

Frances Fukuyama’s “The End of History?”

Fukuyama, Frances. “The End of History?” Globalization and the Challenges of a New Century, edited by Patrick O’Meara, Howard D. Mehlinger, Matthew Krain, and Roxana Ma Newman, Indiana UP, 2000, pp. 161-180. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt2005tk7.19. Accessed on 11 Feb. 2019.

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