Readings for Marx, Debord, Nietzsche and Foucault

Here is a list of texts you can look up. Please check them all. Please read at least 3 pages of one for Tuesday and the same for Wednesday. I’d suggest you to try reading out loud, for yourself. Write up the question that comes to your mind. There are no stupid questions.

1. Marx: general link to variety of sources: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/

The Capital Vol I, Chapter 1. http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm#S1

To read:

Section 1 - The Two Factors of a Commodity: Use-Value and Value 


Section 2 - The twofold Character of the Labour Embodied in Commodities
Section 3 - The Form of Value or Exchange-Value

The Communist Manifesto

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/index.htm

2. Debord. General link again: http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/

The society of the Spectacle http://library.nothingness.org/articles/SI/en/pub_contents/4

To read:

Chapter one, Separation perfected.

3. Nietzsche

The Genealogy of Morals

http://www2.southeastern.edu/Academics/Faculty/jbell/nietzschegenealogy.pdf

To read:

First Essay: Good and Evil, Good and Bad

4. Foucault

Nietzsche, Genealogy, History

http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/CLAS/Departments/philosophy/Students/Documents/'Nietzsche,%20Genealogy,%20History'%20by%20Michel%20Foucault.pdf

Intellectuals and Power

http://postcolonial.net/@/DigitalLibrary/_entries/35/file-pdf.pdf

To read: either of the articles.