Reading for 2/4

Alfredo M. Bonanno‘s The Young in Post Industrial Society is next week’s reading! Looks pretty rad!

In two weeks, 2/11, we’re considering attending the monthly meeting of a reading group studying Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus that Tuesday night from 6:30-8:30 at Pro Arts Gallery in downtown Oakland. We haven’t fully decided whether or not to go as a group, but if we do we will likely leave from the Long Haul at 5:45 or so. If you’re not a part of our group chat or were planning on attending our study group for the first time in two weeks, shoot an email to birdsoffire@riseup.net letting us know if you’re down to join us!

This text is notoriously ‘difficult’, so those who want to spend an extra week with it can find the full book linked here. The reading for this month is the chapter titled “Year Zero: Faciality”. Dig it, or not.

Reading for 1/28

We didn’t decide on a piece last night, so I’m going to seize the opportunity to do some more readings about Artaud. Next week, let’s look at two pieces from this collection of critical writings about the man: “The theatre of cruelty and the closure of representation” (p. 39) and “To unsense the subjectile” (p. 125), both by Jacques Derrida. Don’t worry, they’re less than 20 pages altogether.

See you then!