No Selves to Abolish

This week's reading will focus on the tensions & intersections between anarchy & afropessimism, taking detours through queer theory, communization theory, and even Snoop Dogg.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/pfvqns6vyblxn4e/No%20selves%20to%20abolish%20-%20Afropessimism%2C%20anarchy%2C%20and%20self-abolition.docx?dl=0

Thursday, February 12th, 8pm @ Tempest Library

Against Innocence

This week's reading will be of a text from LIES journal, called "Against Innocence: Race, Gender, & the Politics of Safety"





text available here:

http://ill-will-editions.tumblr.com/post/86156000449/against-innocence-race-gender-and-the-politics

Meeting on Thursday January 29th, 8pm at Tempest

Tiqqun/ Invisible Committee – Fuck Off Google + Cybernetics

This week we'll read two texts about the interweb.

The first is a chapter from the new book by the Invisible Committe, entitled "Fuck Off Google"

English– http://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/Fahrplan/system/attachments/2530/original/fuckoffgoogleeng.pdf

German– http://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/Fahrplan/system/attachments/2529/original/fuckoffgooglegerman.pdf

Here is a talk talking about the aforementioned texts http://youtu.be/zUoEla9cq_Y


The other text is by Tiqqun, called "The Cybernetic Hypothesis"
https://www.dropbox.com/s/f8kgltf2m6lezl3/Tiqqun%20-%20the%20cybernetic%20hypothesis%20-%20PRINT%20%2811%22x17%22%29_cropped.pdf?dl=0

Meeting January 15th, 8pm at Tempest Library

Frank B Wilderson III

This week, we'll read some texts from Frank B. Wilderson. Meeting on Thursday December 18th, 20uhr at Tempest Library.

Frank B. Wilderson III, 'The Prison Slave as Hegemony's (Silent) Scandal

http://loneberry.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/65256131-wilderson-prison-slave.pdf

'Irreconcilable Anti-Blackness and Police Violence after Ferguson'

http://ill-will-editions.tumblr.com/post/103584583009/were-trying-to-destroy-the-world

radio version:  https://soundcloud.com/imixwhatilike/irreconcilable-anti-blackness-and-police-violence


Supplementary reading :

'Inextinguishable Fire: Ferguson and Beyond'

http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/inextinguishable-fire-ferguson-and-beyond

4th of December: Alfredo Bonanno

We will be reading and discussing Bonanno´s Armed Joy.
The text can be found here:

(english)
http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alfredo-m-bonanno-armed-joy
(italian)
http://www.informa-azione.info/files/eBooks/La_gioia_armata.pdf
(french)
https://infokiosques.net/IMG/pdf/joiearmee.pdf

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 ***