May 28th– Fred Moten: Blackness and Nothingness

meeting will take place at 18:30 on Thursday, May 28th at the Hall of Fame (park on Saalestraße & Zeitzerstraße across the street from S-Bahnhof Neukölln)






text here :

https://www.dropbox.com/s/prtc45tzvgiwrne/fred-moten-blackness-and-nothingness-mysticism-in-the-flesh-1.pdf?dl=0

May 7th– Walter Benjamin – Critique of Violence

This week's reading will be a reading of Walter Benjamin's writing on the subject of violence.
Discussion will take place on May 7th at 18uhr, at the garden – Zeitzerstraße/ Saalestraße near S–Bahnhof Neukölln. 



text here:

http://english.columbia.edu/files/english/content/Critique_of_Violence.pdf

https://musiclanguagethought.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/benjamin-zur-kritik-der-gewalt.pdf

Mehdi Belhaj Kacem– Nihilism + Evil

This week's reading will consist of 2 chapters from Mehdi Belhaj Kacem's recently translated book "Transgression and the Inexistent" entitled 'Nihilism' and 'Evil'. Meeting Thursday, April 16th @ Tempest, 8pm. 

text available here: http://grr.aaaaarg.org/upload/mehdi-belhaj-kacem-transgression-and-the-inexistent.pdf

Gilles Gauvé – Kurdistan?

This week's reading will deal with Kurdistan, written by left-communist guru Gilles Dauvé.


http://libcom.org/news/kurdistan-gilles-dauv%C3%A9-17022015


meeting Thursday, February 26th, 8pm at Tempest

No Selves to Abolish

This week's reading will focus on the tensions & intersections between anarchy & afropessimism, taking detours through queer theory, communization theory, and even Snoop Dogg.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/pfvqns6vyblxn4e/No%20selves%20to%20abolish%20-%20Afropessimism%2C%20anarchy%2C%20and%20self-abolition.docx?dl=0

Thursday, February 12th, 8pm @ Tempest Library

Against Innocence

This week's reading will be of a text from LIES journal, called "Against Innocence: Race, Gender, & the Politics of Safety"





text available here:

http://ill-will-editions.tumblr.com/post/86156000449/against-innocence-race-gender-and-the-politics

Meeting on Thursday January 29th, 8pm at Tempest

Tiqqun/ Invisible Committee – Fuck Off Google + Cybernetics

This week we'll read two texts about the interweb.

The first is a chapter from the new book by the Invisible Committe, entitled "Fuck Off Google"

English– http://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/Fahrplan/system/attachments/2530/original/fuckoffgoogleeng.pdf

German– http://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/Fahrplan/system/attachments/2529/original/fuckoffgooglegerman.pdf

Here is a talk talking about the aforementioned texts http://youtu.be/zUoEla9cq_Y


The other text is by Tiqqun, called "The Cybernetic Hypothesis"
https://www.dropbox.com/s/f8kgltf2m6lezl3/Tiqqun%20-%20the%20cybernetic%20hypothesis%20-%20PRINT%20%2811%22x17%22%29_cropped.pdf?dl=0

Meeting January 15th, 8pm at Tempest Library

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:
Imposed
Print

Meeting is at Tempest library, 8pm

January 3rd - Endnotes on the the UK riots

 
 

"A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats", from EndNotes #3.
Available here http://endnotes.org.uk/articles/20

Meeting at 8pm, Tempest Library.

Friday December 6th: Two texts on struggles in Barcelona

"The Rose of Fire has Returned: The Struggle for the Streets of Barcelona"
Available here: http://www.crimethinc.com/texts/recentfeatures/rosefire.php

and a text from a series by crimethinc on post-struggle de-mobilization, "After the Crest Part III: Barcelona Anarchist at Low Tide" available here:
http://www.crimethinc.com/texts/recentfeatures/atc-barc.php

Bartleby: a Negativism Beyond all Negativity

This week we will explore the disturbing, disruptive, and tragic refusal of Hermann Melville's character of Bartleby, from his story "Bartleby the Scrivener".  The Melville text is here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/827051/melville-herman--bartleby-the-scrivener.pdf

We offer four optional commentaries on the text, which people can read at their will, and raise during the discussion.

-Agamben "Bartleby or On Contingency" (in: Potentialities, p. 243-271)

http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Agamben_Bartleby.pdf

-Rancière "Deleuze, Bartleby and the Literary Formula" (in: The Flesh of
Words. The politics of writing, p. 146-164)

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/827051/Ranciere%20-%20The%20Flesh%20of%20Words.pdf

-Deleuze "Bartleby; or 'The Formula'" (in: Essays: Critical & Clinical, S. 68-90)
 https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/827051/Deleuze%20-%20Essays%20critical%20and%20clinical.pdf

-Zizek: "Notes towards a politics of Bartleby: The ignorance of chicken" (in: Comparative American Studies 4(4), p. 375-394

http://archive.totalism.org/Zizek%20-%20Notes%20Towards%20a%20Politics%20of%20Bartleby%20-%20The%20Ignorance%20of%20Chicken.pdf

Thursday Oct. 17: Race and urban guerilla groups

What role does social death and anti-Blackness play in militant politics? This week's reading, written by an American Afropessimist theorist, juxtaposes three urban guerrilla groups (the German Red Army Faction, the Black Liberation Army, and the Irish Republican Army). It attempts to think their difference from the point of view of race, social death, and the 'capacity' or incapacity to enact a dialogical play of recognition with the State and civil society.
Text:
Imp
Read

For a bit of background on the Afropessimist perspective on the significance of the legacy of slavery and Blackness for contemporary radical political theory, the same author has a well-known essay from 2003, entitled "Gramsci's Black Marx: Whither the Slave In Civil Society?"
A read version is here,
A zine version here.

Meeting 8pm, Tempest Library