Making sense of critical theory one text at a time
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Louis Althusser
“Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses”
Franz Fanon
“The Fact of Blackness”
Black Skin, White Masks
Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno
“The Culture Industry”
Ferdinand de Saussure
Course in General Linguistics
J.L. Austin
“Performative Utterances”
Michel Foucault
“The Repressive Hypothesis”
The History of Sexuality
Laura Mulvey
“Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”
Susan Sontag
“Against Interpretation”
Walter Benjamin
“The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility”
“The Order of Discourse”
Jean-François Lyotard
“What is Postmodernism?”
“In Plato’s Cave” On Photography
Judith Butler
“Performative Acts and Gender Constitution”
Sigmund Freud The Interpretation of Dreams
Friedrich Nietzsche “On Truth and Lying”
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