Sunday 27 June 2010

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

Tuesday 22 June 2010

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!

Monday 14 June 2010

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.

Tuesday 8 June 2010

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