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:
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Meeting is at Tempest library, 8pm