We will watch the documentary “Surplus: Terrorized into Being Consumers” this evening and then discuss
May 26th 2015 – Surplus
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The reading for 4/14 and 4/21 – bolo’bolo
For the next two weeks we will be reading the classic counter cultural text – bolo’bolo
Week 1 (4/14) – Through page 33 (ending at asa’pili)
Week 2 (4/21) – Through the end
Reading for March 31st 2015
This evening we are reading an unpublished article by Uri Gordon that was presented at the 2015 NAASN conference. One of the study group was so excited by the piece that they stomped and cried until we begged Uri for the text. He dutifully responded.
We will be reading “Prefigurative Politics and Anarchism” by Uri Gordon which will be available in hard copy on Tuesday.
Reading for February 24th 2015
We are going to read the new anarchist mythology “To Change Everything”
http://www.crimethinc.com/tce/
You can get the PDF here http://www.crimethinc.com/tce/get
The month of January – Anti-Blackness
This month we are going to read and discuss the afro-pessimism/anti-blackness set of ideas… along with some other things but hopefully we will be keeping things topical to a anti-blackness vs whiteness/anti-racist theme.
Week 1 (January 6th): Frank Wilderson interview “we’re trying to destroy the world”. also… POTLUCK! @ 7pm
Week 2: the overview (first 40 pages) in Charles W Mills – The Racial Contract
Week 3: Open to thoughts but perhaps the article from Black Seed 2?
here is the complete reading of the undying appeal of white nationalism for week 3.
Week 4: What are you really? Mills_CharlesW – Whatareyoureally
December 30th 2014 – A lecture on the Spanish Civil War
After spending the past three weeks reading Murry Bookchin’s The Spanish Anarchists: The Heroic Years 1868-1936 we are now going to have an expert in the field come and speak to the topic. At 8pm LJ (founder of the Anarchist Study Group) will present on The SCW. There may be snacks.
Reading for December 09 2014
We are starting a three week reading (with speaker?) of Murray Bookchin’s The Spanish Anarchists
Read through page 32 (through Chapter 1).
questions:
what makes the spanish civil war history relevant to us today?
what makes it irrelevant?
given their situation, what would we do differently?
what would we do the same?
murray-bookchin-the-spanish-anarchists-the-heroic-years-18681936-1
For 11/18: Ray Brassier – The Wandering Abstraction
11/11 – Accelerationism
Fad or Functional? Anarchist or quite the opposite? This week we will discuss Accelerationism
Wikipedia
Benjamin Noys (intro to malign velocities: accelerationism and capitalism)
11/4: Potluck + Georges Bataille + The Mayfair Set
Happy Post-Halloween!
At 7pm, we will potluck. Bring food!
Then, at 8pm we will watch Part 2 of the Mayfair Set.
Lastly, at 9pm, if we can keep our food down, we will discuss the horror (ahem…Halloween!!) and beauty that is Bataille (the readings are from last week, which got “cancelled” ).
Bataille_Solar Anus-Pineal Eye-Sacred Conspiracy
Nick Land_Preface_The thirst for Annihilation
