This would normally be our potluck night.
This week we are, instead, going on a field trip. It is top secret though so if you want to go you will have to talk to another @sg person f2f.
We will try to be at the Long Haul about 6pm to pick people up though (if you need a ride).
Since we always hope to keep up with the jones-es (of 50 years ago) we bring a discussion about perlman’s introduction to II Rubin’s Commodity Fetishism.
http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/fredy-perlman-commodity-fetishism-an-introduction-to-i-i-rubin-s-essay-on-marx-s-theory-of-value
It is going to be a barn burner.
We are reading an excerpt from the Wu Ming introduction to Muntzer.
We are potlucking at 7pm.
these are three dogs
We are reading the beginning of Thomas Pynchon‘s Against the Day. Thomas Pynchon hails from Strong Island!
here are some proposed future readings. bring your suggestions to the reading group in what you want to read is not on the list.
we will be celebrating the beginning of a month for some reason. bring tasty treats to slake our cravings. merriment will be had. POTLUCK starts at 7pm.
at 8pm we will be discussing the chapter called Subjectivity from Mark G. E. Kelley’s book entitled The Political Philosophy of Michel Foucault.
This week we are getting surreal with the inimitable Georges Bataille from the acepheleupagus tribe. Here is the introduction to his book The Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism.
‘Flee, But While Fleeing, Pick Up a Weapon’ is the final chapter from Sadie Plant’s The Most Radical Gesture: The Situationist International in a Postmodern Age by Sadie Plant.
Also, here are the initial suggestions for future reading group readings. Feel free to propose others.
This week we are reading Animism and the Alphabet. In this essay David Abram parenthetically addresses our last reading (Plato’s Phaedrus) and goes further in addressing the emergence of writing and a purely phonetic alphabetic system and how these shape our world and our interaction with it. The chapter is taken from Abram’s book The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World which can be found in full on zinelibrary.
Also, here are the initial suggestions for future reading group readings. Feel free to propose others.
