Reading for Thursday Dec 16

Chapter 3 of Animal Spirits (see earlier posts)
Location Tempest, time 20:00

Edit: the date is Thursday the 16:th, not 12:th. That means today, sorry for this mistake!

Reading for Thursday December 2nd

Animal Spirits - A Bestiary of the Commons by Matteo Pasquinelli.
Chapters 2 and 3
Available at aaaaarg.org

Meeting will NOT take place at Tempest this week, but at Cafe Kotti, Adalbertstr. 96

See you then!

Presentation and Discussion at Liebig 14 : The Will to Power, War Machines and Left Praxis.

How can these concepts inform our practice? And how can our practice inform the creation of new concepts? Discussion in english. Suggested readings: ‚The War Machine and Capitalism‘ (Marzec 2001) available here and ‚Will to Power on Deleuze’s Thought‘ (Somacles: 2009) available here.

6pm Liebig Strasse 14 (near U-bahn Frankfurter Tor)

Danach: Voku, Cocktails and Zomby Party.

Reading for November 18th - Deleuze and Queer Theory

'The Adventures of a Sex' by Luciana Parisi, Chapter 5 in Deleuze and Queer Theory
Available at aaaaarg.org
Meeting at 8pm, Tempest Library, 63a Reichenbergerstr.

Reading for November 4th: A Bestiary of the Commons

Animal Spirits - A Bestiary of the Commons by Matteo Pasquinelli.
Introduction and Chapter 1
Available at aaaaarg.org

Meeting at Tempest Library, 63a Reichenbergerstr, 8pm.

Thursday 21:th October

Lecture by Foucault on subjectivity and juristiction.
Michel Foucault, Truth and Judicial Forms (1974), Excerpt
Meeting will take place at 8pm at Tempest Library, Reichenbergerstr. 63a.

October 7th: Deleuze and feminism

Reading this week is "Nomadism with a difference: Deleuze's legacy in a feminist perspective" by Rosi Braidotti, available here: www.philosophy.ru/library/pdf/113455.pdf


Meeting will take place at 8pm at Tempest Library, Reichenbergerstr. 63a.

Late notice reading September 30th

"Reading" for tomorrow is watching this three-part youtube lecture by Timothy Morton about Ecology and "The Mesh"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-mWCPa9y3c

Timespace: Tempest Library 20:00

September 16th

Same text as last post!

Tempest library at Reichenberger str. 63a 20:00

Reading for Thursday 26 aug:

Continuing our Negrian deviations, we're reading some post-workerism theories on immaterial labour.

http://www.generation-online.org/c/fcimmateriallabour3.htm

Location Tempest library at 20:00
(see previous entries for address)

Reading for thursday 12:th

from Agamben's Means without ends we will be reading
"Marginal notes on Commentaries on the society of the Spectacle" and "Notes on Politics"

find it here: http://rapidshare.com/files/411826678/agamben-means_without_end.pdf
or at aaaaarg.org



Be at Tempest Library in
Reichenberger Str. 63a at 20:00

Reading for Thursday 5:th

Continuing our Empire studies, next thing to read is chapter 4 - The Decline and Fall of Empire

This time we will meet at Tempest Library in
Reichenberger Str. 63a at 20:00

Empire

We're continuing reading Empire (see last post). Chapter 2 until Thursday.

Update:
Location: Liebig str. 14 Friedrichein
TIME: 18:30

Reading for July 22nd: Empire

What you can of Part 1, available here: http://www.infoshop.org/texts/empire.pdf

Last minute location change:
We will be in the park outside Bethanien, here is a Google Maps Link

Reading for 1st of July: SCUM manifesto by Valerie Solanas

We're reading the S.C.U.M. manifesto for next time. You'll find it here: http://www.womynkind.org/scum.htm

See you on Thursday 7 pm @ Liebig 14!

Bis bald /Tove

As This weeks reading i'm hereby suggesting this interesting interview with Jane Bennet.

http://philosophyinatimeoferror.wordpress.com/2010/04/22/vibrant-matters-an-interview-with-jane-bennett/

Meeting at liebig 14, check earlier posts for info on getting there!

Reading for June 17th

'Dominant Capital and the New Wars', from Bichler, Shimshon and Nitzan, Jonathan.

available at:

http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/1/

Meeting at Liebig 14, if it's sunny on the roof where hopefully we can find some peace and quiet for discussion.

Reading for 10th of June: Deleuzian flat ontologies as nihilism?

Critiques have been made of Deleuze/Guattarian philosophy, and the neo-materialist thinkers they have inspired, which suggest that their flat ontology of matter and flows leads to a certain political nihilism. Is thinking in terms of movement, flows, bodies and assemblages useful only as technical appendages to a more obviously political Anarcho-Marxist critique? Or does Deleuze/Guattarian philosophy propose a new paradigm of thought that offers a sense of the political that is much broader than the one offered by Marxism?

Let's read this: ' Object-orientated philosophy and nihilism' from Larval Subjects, available here: http://larvalsubjects.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/object-oriented-philosophy-and-nihilism/

and this: ' On having your cake and eating it' from Splintering Bone Ashes, available here:
http://splinteringboneashes.blogspot.com/2009/01/on-having-your-cake-and-eating-it.html

These readings are more in relation to the emerging philosophy of 'Speculative Realism' which proposes a form of radical nihilism, but the texts also bring Deleuze into the discussion.

Meeting will take place at Liebig Strasse 14 from 7pm, nearest u-bahn Frankfurter Tor, ring door bell or call me to get in 017688038433.

-Lucrezia

No reading group on Thursday 3rd of June

Perpetual variation of the force of existing...

Reading for 27.05.2010: Deleuze on Spinoza, Lecture from the Cours Vincennes, 1978.

Available here: http://www.webdeleuze.com/php/texte.php?cle=14&groupe=Spinoza&langue=2

Meeting will again take place at Liebig Strasse 14, from 7pm.

Meeting today taking place at: Liebig Strasse 14, 10247 Berlin. Nearest U-bahn: Frankfurter Tor.

Reading for 20.05.2010- See previous post

Readings for 13.05.2010 - Greece

This: The Glass Floor- Theorie Communiste’s analysis of the December 2008 Greek riots : http://libcom.org/library/glass-floor-theorie-communiste. Fairly long, but looks interesting, read what you can.

This: The Morbid Explosion of Ideology-Announcement of the Greek magazine Flesh Machine on the events of May the 5th in Athens: http://libcom.org/library/morbid-explosion-ideology

And the last few posts on http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/ for recent developments and especially discussion around deaths at Marfin Bank.

-Lucrezia

Tempest Radical Library Berlin

Anarchist Library at Scharnweberstr. 38, full of radical texts in English, Polish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Basque, Catalan and Spanish. Opening hours are: Tuesdays and Thursdays 16:00-20:00, and Sundays 14:00-18:00. Go by, it's great!
Lucrezia

Reading for thursday 29:th april

For next week we will be reading Steve Goodman a.k.a Kode9, Electronic music artist, DJ and founder of the Hyperdub record label.

The scope for the first meeting is the introduction and first two chapters.

Link to the pdf book: Sonic Warfare

'After the Greek Riots'

Great blog from Occupied London covering the current situation in Greece:

http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/

Reading for thursday 15:th

Important change:
Meetings are now on thursdays!

We are continuing reading Capitalist realism, probably the whole book until next time (it's very short). Look at previous entry for pdf link.

Reading for wednesday April 7:th

Capitalist Realism (pdf), by Mark Fisher.
As far as you want but maybe we should focus on the first and second chapters for the first meeting, i find a lot of really nice material in this text.

Update: wednesday 7:th not 8:th as previously claimed in title.

Readings and audio for Wednesday 31st March

1. The rest of 'The Coming Insurrection' by The Invisible Commitee
http://tarnac9.wordpress.com/texts/the-coming-insurrection

2. Short article by Alberto Toscano on the case of the Tarnac 9: 'Criminalising Dissent' http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/jan/28/human-rights-tarnac-nine

3. Mark Fisher (K Punk) discussing some ideas from his book 'Capitalism Realism', available here:
http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2010/02/mark-fisher-nubureaucracy-and-capitalist-realism/

Reading for wednesday 24:th

The reading for next week is the first two parts (or circles as the book calls them) of 'The coming insurrection'.
The book can be accessed in its whole at this address
http://tarnac9.wordpress.com/texts/the-coming-insurrection

The TV anchor and concerned citizen Glenn Beck also offers some critical comments on this text, available at youtube!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKyi2qNskJc

Readings for Wednesday 17th March: Badiou vs Deleuze!

Gilles Deleuze, 'What is the Event' chapter, in The Fold.
Available at http://a.aaaarg.org.

And: Alain Badiou 'The Event in Deleuze'.
Available here: http://www.parrhesiajournal.org/parrhesia02/parrhesia02_badiou2.pdf

Radical Theory Reading Group, every Wednesday 7-9pm at New Yorck at Bethanien.

How can we use theory to understand, relate to and challenge our political environments? Are you interested in reading Deleuze and Guattari and related critical thinkers? As well as thinking through what these ideas offer us in terms of self-organization? We want to create an open environment for reading, discussing and applying theory as well as build a dialogue between philosophical reflection and direct activism in Berlin. Join us in our weekly discussions of texts and themes on capitalism, space, self organization and the city. No prior knowledge required, all welcome!

Location:
New Yorck im Bethanien
Mariannenplatz 2
10997 Berlin