The Labour and Society Social Theory Reading Group: Consciousness and Identity, 19th February 2020

The L&S reading group’s next meeting will take place at Northern Stage and will address the topic of Consciousness and identity.

This week’s readings are:
Gramsci, Antonio. Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci.
Edited by Quintin Hoare and Geoffrey Nowell-Smith. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1971. pp. 323-43.
Vygotsky, Lev. “Thought and Word.” In Thought and Language, edited by Eugenia
Hanfmann and Gertrude Vakar. Cambridge, Mass: M.I.T Press, 1962:1986.
pp. 210-56.

You do not need to be an expert. Just try to read the text and come with your opinions about it. If you are interested in attending or have any queries please contact Katherine Emmerson-Waugh
(k.emmerson-waugh2@newcastle.ac.uk) or Joe Redmayne (j.redmayne2@newcastle.ac.uk) to
receive reading material in advance. All welcome.

The Labour and Society Social Theory Reading Group: Consensus, 28th February 2020

This L&S reading group meeting will be held in Armstrong Building, Room: 3.41. This weeks’ reading group will be on the theme of Consensus.

This week’s readings are:
Gramsci, Antonio. Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci.
Edited by Quintin Hoare and Geoffrey Nowell-Smith. London: Lawrence &
Wishart, 1971.
pp. 257-76.
Herman, Edward S., and Noam Chomsky. Manufacturing Consent: The Political
Economy of Mass Media. New York: Pantheon Books, 2014.