Arendt, Hannah: On Violence (selection)

Barrett, Michèlle: The Politics of Truth

Baudrillard, Jean: Simulacra and Simulation (selection)

Butler, Judith: Bodies that Matter (Critically Queer and/or Gender is Burning)

Coco Fusco: Only Skin Deep. Changing Visions of the American Self

Davis, Mike: City of Quartz

Gómez-Peña, Guillermo: Dangerous Border-Crossers (22-47)

Haraway, Donna: A Cyborg Manifesto

Harvey, David: Rebel Cities

Jameson, Fredric: The Cultures of Globalization 

Kristeva, Julia: Powers of Horror

Ticineto Clough, Patricia, ed.: The Affective Turn

West, Cornel: Race Matters

Ramos-Zayas, Ana. Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies

Álvarez, Luis. Chicanx Utopias: Pop Culture and the Politics of the Possible

Stevens, Ann. Literary Theory and Criticism: An Introduction