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

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