Week 7. Sustainability in the Hothouse [Rd]

10/7. Empty Gestures & Green Pampering

• Žižek, Slavoj. 2007. 'Introduction', 'Empty Gestures and Performatives', 'The Interpassive Subject'. How to Read Lacan. W.W. Norton and Company Press

• Sloterdijk, Peter. 2013. 'Mutations in the Pampering Space'. In the World Interior of Capital. Polity Press

10/9. "DON'T BUY THIS JACKET"

• Berry, Wendell. 'Faustian Economics'. Harper's Magazine. May 2008

• Princen, T. et al. 2013. 'Keep Them in the Ground: Ending the Fossil Fuel Era. State of the world 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?'. Worldwatch Institute

• Chouinard, Yvon. 'The Education of a Reluctant Businessman'. University of California Santa Barbara Lecture. (see below!)