6 December reading: Karen Barad

"'Subjects' and 'objects' do not preexist as such but are constituted through particular practices… in contrast to [Judith] Butler's more singular focus on the human body, the framework of agential realism does not limit its reassessment of the matter of bodies to the realm of the human. In fact, it calls for a critical examination of the practices by which the differential boundaries of the human and nonhuman are drawn, for these very same practices are always already implicated in particular materialisations"

Karen Barad is a theoretical physicist who applies concepts from physics to feminism & cultural studies. Follow link for a download of her article "Getting Real: Technoscientific Practices and the Materialisation of Reality" (1998):

http://www.mediafire.com/view/?ps4449nzw92qi6t

15th November reading: Nietzsche and Philosophy

                     "Into all abysses I still carry the blessings of my saying yes" (Zarathustra)

Following on from our discussion on nihilist politics in the last meeting we will be reading some sections from Nietzsche and Philosophy (1962) by Gille Deleuze:

Chapter 5 "The Overman: Against the Dialectic",  from section 9 "Nihilism and Transmutation: the focal point", until the end of that chapter (around 20 pages).
The book is available at aaaaarg.org.

This short text by Guerre au Paradis on nihilism in relation to anarchist movements would also be interesting to read alongside the Deleuze text:
http://stormheaven.wordpress.com/lifeasagamble/considerations-on-nihilism/

Reading for November 1st

 Identity in Crisis- from "Baedan: A journal of queer nihilism"

"Identities must be produced—produced as commodities and for commodities. Identification, that is, the process of re-creationism, is what produces these identities. Inherent in this production is a certain form of anti-identification that opposes itself to stable, essential, static and, ultimately, old-fashioned identity-forms in order to compel the production and marketing of new ones"


http://sfbay-anarchists.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/identity-in-crisis.pdf

Readings for October 4th

"Places to intervene in a system" by Donella H. Meadows, available here: http://www.developerdotstar.com/mag/articles/places_intervene_system.html

and

"Anarchism as a theory of organization" by Colin Ward, available here:
http://www.panarchy.org/ward/organization.1966.html

Texts were also sent out recently on the mailing list as pdfs.

Meeting at 8pm, Tempest Library.

Reading for the 20:th

Due to low turnup we are reading the same text as last time again for tomorrow, along with a presentation on some of the work of the groups in Stockholm and Oslo.

Thursday 6:th of September - The Traffic Hirearchy

Writings about public transport and transport in general.

http://planka.nu/vad-tycker-vi/rapporter/the-traffic-hierarchy/

Thursday 19:th of July - Urban Cannibalism

Short manifesto for late post!

Wietske Maas and Matteo Pasquinelli - Manifesto of Urban Cannibalism

July 5th: Crisis and Struggle in Greece - Report from Communismos conference

Report from "Communismos 2.0", a conference of the Greek antagonist movement held in Yfanet Squat, Thessaloniki in May 2012. The presentation will give summaries of the conversations and talks which took place at this conference on themes including: current struggles in Thessaloniki, the successes and limits of autonomous neighbourhood assemblies, nationalism and fascism in the crisis, and the current situation for migrants in Greece. 

Recommended reading: "For the insurrection to succeed, we must first destroy ourselves" by Alex Trochi, in "Revolt and Crisis in Greece" edited by Occupied London, available here.

8pm, Tempest Library, Reichenbergerstr. 63a.

Thursday 21st: Greece discussion

What you can read of these, we can also read out loud in the meeting:

http://libcom.org/library/era-riots-update
http://libcom.org/library/winter-thousand-decembers-tptgblaumachen
http://libcom.org/news/tptg-%E2%80%9Cthere%E2%80%99s-only-one-thing-left-settle-our-accounts-capital-its-state%E2%80%99%E2%80%99-16032010


Meeting 8pm, in the hole in görlitzer park another time (we´ll go somewhere else if it´s raining).

07/06/12. Emmanuel Levinas: Substitution.

Text here.

May 17th reading: queer+phenomenology

 

'Orientations: Towards a queer phenomenology' by Sara Ahmed
Available here.
Meeting 8pm, Tempest Library.

Reading for May 3rd

 

The Ethical Prude: Imagining An Authentic Sex-Negative Feminism

from A Radical Transfeminist blog

http://radtransfem.wordpress.com/2012/02/29/the-ethical-prude-imagining-an-authentic-sex-negative-feminism/#whyreclaim

Reading for Thursday 19:th

Salt by Escalate Collective

http://escalatecollective.net/?p=32

Reading for Thursday 5:th of April

Bataille - The Notion of Expenditure

Reading March 15th: "Women´s work and the ambivalent gift of entropy"

Chapter by David Staples, from "The Affective Turn" (2007: Cloud and Halley eds.)
Text will be distributed via the mailing list (email radicaltheoryberlin@googlemail.com if you are not on it).
Meeting next Thursday, 8pm, Tempest Library

March 1st reading: The Free Association

We will be discussing "On Fairy Dust and Rupture" available here, and any other of their texts you want to read.

Meeting Thursday at 8pm, Tempest Library.

February 16th: The Anarchy of Queer

Following on from our gender theme from two meetings ago:

"The Anarchy of Queer: rethinking postructuralist possibilities and the politics of sexuality"

by Jamie Heckert (2006)

www.psa.ac.uk/2006/pps/Heckert.pdf
(works if you copy and paste the link rather than click on it)

Meeting Thursday at 8pm, Tempest Library.

Thursday February 2:nd

On the one-year anniversary of the eviction of Liebig 14-
Talks, and discussion of "Fairy Dust and Rupture" by the Free Association
3-5pm, in the Infoladen Daneben, Liebigstrasse 34 (next door to XB).

Suffering rights as paradoxes

For Thursday's meeting, we will read Wendy Brown's Suffering rights as paradoxes. It has been sent out on the email list. If you're not on the list, please send an email and you'll get the article.

The meeting takes place at Tempest Library, Reichenberger Straße 63a, 8 pm Thursday 19 of January.