Frank B Wilderson III

This week, we'll read some texts from Frank B. Wilderson. Meeting on Thursday December 18th, 20uhr at Tempest Library.

Frank B. Wilderson III, 'The Prison Slave as Hegemony's (Silent) Scandal

http://loneberry.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/65256131-wilderson-prison-slave.pdf

'Irreconcilable Anti-Blackness and Police Violence after Ferguson'

http://ill-will-editions.tumblr.com/post/103584583009/were-trying-to-destroy-the-world

radio version:  https://soundcloud.com/imixwhatilike/irreconcilable-anti-blackness-and-police-violence


Supplementary reading :

'Inextinguishable Fire: Ferguson and Beyond'

http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/inextinguishable-fire-ferguson-and-beyond

4th of December: Alfredo Bonanno

We will be reading and discussing Bonanno´s Armed Joy.
The text can be found here:

(english)
http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alfredo-m-bonanno-armed-joy
(italian)
http://www.informa-azione.info/files/eBooks/La_gioia_armata.pdf
(french)
https://infokiosques.net/IMG/pdf/joiearmee.pdf

Immanence: A Life

This week we'll be reading an essay from Deleuze called "Immanence: A Life"
The text is available here: http://projectlamar.com/media/Pure_Immanence.pdf


November 20th, 8pm at Tempest Library

November 6th: Kurdish struggles

                      "Free Kurds do not recognize borders"                  

For this meeting we will discuss the on-going developments with the Kurdish autonomous movement, based on this selection of reading material:

 * Democratic Autonomy in North Kurdistan: The Council Movement, Gender Liberation, and Ecology (http://www.akpress.org/democratic-autonomy-in-north-kurdistan.html)
(I couldn´t find a pdf of this online anywhere, but will try summarize at the meeting what I will have read from the book)

 * The experiment of West Kurdistan (Syrian Kurdistan) has proved that people can make changes (http://www.anarkismo.net/article/27301)

* A ‘Revolution’ under Attack – the Alternative in midst the War in Syria (http://www.movements.manchester.ac.uk/the-alternative-in-syria/)

 * Why is the world ignoring the revolutionary Kurds in Syria? (http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/08/why-world-ignoring-revolutionary-kurds-syria-isis)

 * Rojava revolution: building autonomy in the Middle East (http://roarmag.org/2014/07/rojava-autonomy-syrian-kurds/)

 * VIDEO: Dilar Dirik on Kobane and Kurdish Women’s Movement (http://kurdishquestion.com/kurdistan/video-dilar-dirik-on-kobane-and-kurdish-women-s-movement.html)

 * Anarchists join fight against ISIS to defend Kurdish Autonomous Areas (https://libcom.org/news/anarchists-join-fight-against-isis-defend-kurdish-autonomous-areas-03102014)

 * Defend the Kobanê Resistance (https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/10/09/18762632.php)

***Correction: Meeting will now take place at Leinestraße 48 (Neukölln), Klingel wg.1.og,
and not at the Tempest Library ***

October 2nd– Left Wing Communism

This week's reading will be from the 'communist cluster' readings. We will read week 6: 'Left-wing Communism.' Thursday, October 2nd, 8pm at Tempest Library.

text is available here:

http://communistresearchcluster.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/crc_ci_vol_one.pdf

supplementary reading is chapter 9 from Eley's book

http://grr.aaaaarg.org/upload/geoff-eley-forging-democracy-the-history-of-the-left-in-europe-18502000-1.pdf

July 24th: Wreck of the Plaza

This week's reading will be a text by Research & Destroy, called Wreck of the Plaza. It is available here:

http://researchanddestroy.wordpress.com/2014/06/14/the-wreck-of-the-plaza/

meeting thursday july 24th, 8pm @ tempest library

July 3: Who is Oakland: Anti-Oppression Activism, the Politics of Safety, and State Co-optation

                        
The text is available here:

http://escalatingidentity.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/pdf-of-updated-version-of-who-is-oakland (English)

and here:
 

http://ill-will-editions.tumblr.com/post/80353754605/escalating-identity-die-politik-der-sicherheit (German)

Meeting will be at Thursday 8pm in the Tempest library.

June 19th - The Ethics of Becoming Imperceptible

 
by Rosi Braidotti
The text is available here.

Meeting will be at 8pm, in the Tempest Library.

January 17: Sean Bonney & Militant Poetics

This week we will be reading the work of UK poet Sean Bonney on Blanquism, militant poetry, and how the riot becomes poetic, the universe a police system, and the communards its comets.

-"Comets & Barricades: Insurrectionary Imagination in Exile", available on the Mute website

-"Notes on Militant Poetics", consisting of six short reflections, originally appeared on his blog. A hurriedly compiled zine is here:
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Meeting is at Tempest library, 8pm