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