Thurs April 4: Against The Legalization Of Occupied Spaces

This thursday we will read an Italian piece entitled "Against The Legalization Of Occupied Spaces". The text can be found here.

Tempest, 8pm.

See you then!

Thursday March 7th: Lazzarato, "The Making of Indebted Man"

IMPORTANT NOTICE

we will not be able to use the Tempest space this thursday, meeting at lulus.

Maurizio Lazzarato will be in Berlin later this week, speaking at a conference on the "Pathologies of Cognitive Capitalism". Lazzarato has recently broken with several of his compatriats in the Italian immaterial labor school of analysis, rejecting the thesis of a "cognitive capitalism." This rejection and re-evaluation can be seen in his recent book The Making of Indebted Man: An Essay on the Neoliberal Condition.

This thursday at 8pm, we will meet at the Tempest Library to discuss chapter Chapter 2 of this work, which revolves around Nietzsche, social indebtedness, and Deleuze and Guattari's usage of this Nietzschean analysis in the third chapter of Anti-Oedipus. A pdf of the text is here.

See you then! 

Reading for Thursday 21:th - Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses

Text can be found here: http://rymdkoloni.se/ideology.pdf

January 17th: The Allure of Insurrection

The text for the next meeting is The Allure of Insurrection by Leonard Williams and Brad Thomson.
Available here. 
Meeting will take place at the Tempest library at 8pm.

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