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.