May 28th– Fred Moten: Blackness and Nothingness

meeting will take place at 18:30 on Thursday, May 28th at the Hall of Fame (park on Saalestraße & Zeitzerstraße across the street from S-Bahnhof Neukölln)






text here :

https://www.dropbox.com/s/prtc45tzvgiwrne/fred-moten-blackness-and-nothingness-mysticism-in-the-flesh-1.pdf?dl=0

May 7th– Walter Benjamin – Critique of Violence

This week's reading will be a reading of Walter Benjamin's writing on the subject of violence.
Discussion will take place on May 7th at 18uhr, at the garden – Zeitzerstraße/ Saalestraße near S–Bahnhof Neukölln. 



text here:

http://english.columbia.edu/files/english/content/Critique_of_Violence.pdf

https://musiclanguagethought.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/benjamin-zur-kritik-der-gewalt.pdf

Mehdi Belhaj Kacem– Nihilism + Evil

This week's reading will consist of 2 chapters from Mehdi Belhaj Kacem's recently translated book "Transgression and the Inexistent" entitled 'Nihilism' and 'Evil'. Meeting Thursday, April 16th @ Tempest, 8pm. 

text available here: http://grr.aaaaarg.org/upload/mehdi-belhaj-kacem-transgression-and-the-inexistent.pdf

Gilles Gauvé – Kurdistan?

This week's reading will deal with Kurdistan, written by left-communist guru Gilles Dauvé.


http://libcom.org/news/kurdistan-gilles-dauv%C3%A9-17022015


meeting Thursday, February 26th, 8pm at Tempest

No Selves to Abolish

This week's reading will focus on the tensions & intersections between anarchy & afropessimism, taking detours through queer theory, communization theory, and even Snoop Dogg.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/pfvqns6vyblxn4e/No%20selves%20to%20abolish%20-%20Afropessimism%2C%20anarchy%2C%20and%20self-abolition.docx?dl=0

Thursday, February 12th, 8pm @ Tempest Library

Against Innocence

This week's reading will be of a text from LIES journal, called "Against Innocence: Race, Gender, & the Politics of Safety"





text available here:

http://ill-will-editions.tumblr.com/post/86156000449/against-innocence-race-gender-and-the-politics

Meeting on Thursday January 29th, 8pm at Tempest

Tiqqun/ Invisible Committee – Fuck Off Google + Cybernetics

This week we'll read two texts about the interweb.

The first is a chapter from the new book by the Invisible Committe, entitled "Fuck Off Google"

English– http://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/Fahrplan/system/attachments/2530/original/fuckoffgoogleeng.pdf

German– http://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/Fahrplan/system/attachments/2529/original/fuckoffgooglegerman.pdf

Here is a talk talking about the aforementioned texts http://youtu.be/zUoEla9cq_Y


The other text is by Tiqqun, called "The Cybernetic Hypothesis"
https://www.dropbox.com/s/f8kgltf2m6lezl3/Tiqqun%20-%20the%20cybernetic%20hypothesis%20-%20PRINT%20%2811%22x17%22%29_cropped.pdf?dl=0

Meeting January 15th, 8pm at Tempest Library