3 readings related to Italy 1977, Autonmoia, and the Metropolitan Indians.
Memories of a Metropolitan Indian
Irony as protest and language as struggle in the Italian 1977 movement
February 21st
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2/7/2012
the reading for this night is kropotkin, a brand new scan thanks to sam and audrey.
here is the link for the download.
http://www.mediafire.com/?hkl2bldj25kwmh4
remember this is also potluck night. bring yummies!
2012 BASTARD Conference – Workshop Callout
2012 BASTARD Conference – Theme: No Future
Time is a beast. It has torn through humans chasing them from the fields and woods into suits and office buildings, suburbs and mortgages. There was a chance we were going to defeat it, on the commons of England, Mesopotamia, or during the revolutions on the old continent. But we didn’t. Instead time sits on our chests and makes us do horrible things.
This years BASTARD conference will examine time in all its perniciousness. What does a critique of time say about our relationship to history. Is history redeemable? Are we living at the end of history with the glorious victory of the neo-liberal revolution of the past 50 years? If there is no time does that argue for eternal recursion? Is there hope if there is no time?
Contribute a workshop to the 2012 BASTARD conference on this theme, a related topic, or something else entirely. Send your proposals to conference@sfbay-anarchists.org
Theme: No Future
Date: April 1st
Location: East Bay, CA
January 23rd & 30th
January 23rd we will be reading Baudelaire. It will be selections from Les Fleurs du Mal and you can expect to read aloud.
January 30th we will be reading selections about and by G Bataille. This includes “The Gift of Rivalry – Potlach”, “The Place of Violence”, and part of the secondary source “against architecture”.
Bataille – The Place of Violence – Selected Writings
against_architecture_introduction
Next month is a series of readings on History including:
1) First French Revolution (Feb 7th with potluck @ 7pm)
2) May 1968 (we will talk mostly Paris) – Feb 14th
3) 1977 (Italy) – Feb 21th
4) 1980s Bay Area Radical History
reading for 1/17
we will be reading Theses on the Philosophy of History by Walter Benjamin available for download here: http://www.mediafire.com/?no9xaua8j6neayr
January 10th 2012
we will be reading two essays by Jean Baudrillard: The Mirror of Production and Animals Sick of Surplus Value. both can be found here: http://www.mediafire.com/?bpip9cpdr21ibm8
January 3rd 2012
Welcome to the new year. Here is the months readings. This month the theme is the letter ‘B’.
1) Remember POTLUCK is tomorrow. Preferably vegan(ish) food so all can eat.
2) 1/3 – Bolo’ bolo (first 1/2)
3) 1/10 – Baudrillard
4) 1/17 – Baudelaire
5) 1/24 – Bataille
12.27.2011
We are reading Tiqqun and wishing a friend a fond farewell and shit.
What is Critical Metaphysics? – HTML
Here is the PDF – whatiscriticalmetaphysics
12.20.2011
12.13.11
we will be watching videos, either two shorts (i didn’t catch what they were about) or the old but still very funny Surplus (featuring rice and beans), or perhaps some combination of the above.
also there is no plan for a reading for two weeks from now, so if someone gets inspired, now is the time to act! (or, before the 13th, anyway.) bring readings for us! bend us to your reading will! or maybe we’ll make another run at a good louise michel reading. who can tell.