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
Reading for February 24th 2015
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reading for 2/3/15
first reading(s) for our month on Kobane (both of these are probably out of date in information, but not in analysis):
first week: the experiment of kurdistan
second week: the seemingly quixotic journey (tom nomad)
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
reading for 11.25.14
we plan on doing a month of readings by samuel r. delaney, starting out with rhetoric of sex, discourse of desire
delaney is relevant to anarchists in the way that good science fiction authors are meaningful to us, and delaney in particular is a very smart, gender-bending, philosophically minded author, who manages to tie together many threads in both fiction and non fiction writings. (so one of the things to look at here is how he writes… and ties personal anecdote into more general topics.)
For 11/18: Ray Brassier – The Wandering Abstraction
on accelerationism (?!?) etc for 11/18
Accelerationist manifesto:http://syntheticedifice.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/accelerate.pdf
on Object Oriented philosophy: http://www.urbanomic.com/Publications/Object-Oriented-Philosophy/preface.pdf
After Finitude: http://dm.ncl.ac.uk/courseblog/files/2011/02/After%20Finitude%20-%20Chapter%201%20-%20Meillassoux.pdf
read any two. come with three questions!
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
