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.

New Year Readings: Death, Negativity, Alienation, Life!

For the next meeting on January 5th we will be reading:

Tiqqun - The Theory of Bloom

http://ifile.it/2igpmyb

and

Aaron Asphaar and Amanda Silbernagel - Angst, the glimpse, and revolution

http://aaronasphar.wordpress.com/2011/08/10/amanda-silbernagel-me-on-angst-the-glimpse-revolution/

8pm, Tempest Library.

December 15th reading: The Persistence of the Negative

Benjamin Noys´critique of the "affirmationist bloc" of contintental theory, and thesis on the necessity to think the negative in our conceptualizations and actions of resistance to capitalism.
Read what you can of the introduction and conclusion. Text will be circulated via the mailing list.
Meeting 8pm, Thursday the 15th, Tempest Library.

Participatory Economics vs. Economic Democracy

For the next session we'll take a look at two sketches for a post-capitalist society. Michael Albert promotes his view of 'Participatory Economics', while David Schweickart would rather see 'Economic Democracy'. Both have written a book on their ideas; the first is Parecon: Life After Capitalism and the other is After Capitalism by Albert and Schweickart respectively.

====The Material====

Participatory Economics/Parecon, by Michael Albert:

Video: http://www.zcommunications.org/alternative-economy-cultures-documentations-by-michael-albert
Texts: http://www.zcommunications.org/topics/parecon

Economic Democracy, by David Schweickart:

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT4cNwC-aGQ&feature=related
(90 minutes of video, with bad audio quality)
Texts: http://www.luc.edu/faculty/dschwei/articles.htm
(see http://www.luc.edu/faculty/dschwei/democracy.pdf)

also:...

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et91gXGMLwA&feature=related
(first of a series of 5 videos, which don't explain much on their own, but can be interesting to check out after having an idea what these guys are about)

Reading for Thursday 17th November - "Debt: The First Five Thousand Years", by David Graeber

We're reading Debt: The First Five Thousand Years, by David Graeber

Thursday November 3:rd reading - Machinic Capitalism and Network Surplus Value

Continuing on the machine-line, we're reading the text Machinic Capitalism and Network Surplus Value: 
Towards a Political Economy of the Turing Machine by Pasquinelli.

Reading for Thursday 20:th - Machines

We're reading the Grundrisse excerpt The Fragment on Machines

And also a text by Virno discussing this fragment:
http://www.generation-online.org/p/fpvirno10.htm