the chapter called “anthropologists and other friends” from this book (Custer Died for Your Sins),
http://www.zinelibrary.info/files/Custer_Died_for_Your_Sins.pdf
the chapter called “anthropologists and other friends” from this book (Custer Died for Your Sins),
http://www.zinelibrary.info/files/Custer_Died_for_Your_Sins.pdf
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.
we asked participants in the group to do a little brainstorming and think of fun future readings. we can always add more to the list (and we intend to since most current events readings come unexpectedly from any number of website). if anyone wants to add to this list you are free to do so at any of the weekly meetings we have. here are the initial results.
come at 7pm and bring tasty treats and party with your pals. all the lovable rascals will be there!
at 8pm we will discuss Plato’s Phaedrus. it is a long essay/dialogue so we are breaking the discussion into two parts (pages 506-533 and pages 534-556). we will read the first half first and the second half second. genius!
note: for the thuggish nerds who care, the translators for this particular version are Alexander Nehamas and Paul Woodruff… i hope this means we won’t have to face your wrath.
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This week we read 2 essays by Jean Baudrillard.