Supplementary Reading 

I. Colonialism as Insecurity, Not Destiny

Dipesh Chakrabarty — Provincializing Europe
Uday Mehta — Liberalism and Empire
Sankaran Krishna — Globalization and Postcolonialism
Karuna Mantena — Alibis of Empire

II. Universalism, Normativity, and the Production of “Neutral”

Sylvia Wynter — Selected essays
Talal Asad — Formations of the Secular
Joan Scott — Only Paradoxes to Offer
Bruno Latour — We Have Never Been Modern

III. Administration, Bureaucracy, and Institutional Survival

James C. Scott — Seeing Like a State
Hannah Arendt — The Origins of Totalitarianism (bureaucracy sections)
David Graeber — The Utopia of Rules
Michael Power — The Audit Society

IV. Development, Time, and Deferred Equality

Wolfgang Sachs — The Development Dictionary
Tania Li — The Will to Improve
Arturo Escobar — Encountering Development

V. Whiteness as Structure (Not Identity)

Ruth Frankenberg — White Women, Race Matters
George Lipsitz — The Possessive Investment in Whiteness
Sara Ahmed — On Being Included

VI. Museums, Art Institutions, and Managed Critique

Tony Bennett — The Birth of the Museum
Ariella Azoulay — Potential History
Claire Bishop — Artificial Hells
Paul O’Neill — The Culture of Curating

VII. Logistics, Borders, and Procedural Power

Deborah Cowen — The Deadly Life of Logistics
Aihwa Ong — Neoliberalism as Exception
Nicholas De Genova — Selected essays on borders

VIII. Refusal, Exhaustion, and Non-Resolution

Audra Simpson — Mohawk Interruptus
Fred Moten — Selected essays
Saidiya Hartman — Scenes of Subjection

IX. Canonical Figures (Deliberately Not Taught)

(Referenced implicitly throughout the course)

G. W. F. Hegel — Philosophy of History
Adam Smith — The Wealth of Nations
Immanuel Kant — Political essays
Alexis de Tocqueville — Democracy in America