reading for 13.10.09

We're going to be making a return to deleuze / guattari. the next few weeks will be on chapter 3 of mille plateaux - the geology of morals. there's alot to explore and take from the chapter so i think its worth going into it in some depth..... Tomorrow will be my last session until january, but i hope you'll be able to carry on as normal without me. I'll try to follow the reading from my hammock.....

-Andres

p.s. - I thought i'd post the videos of Delanda's lecture on deleuze we spoke about last time, a really accessable and interesting way into deleuze

soc of spec

Hey lads, tomorrows reading is chapter eins (1) von the society of the spectacle by Guy Debord. its a riveting chapter full of marxian sentance inversions. Good luck!

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Society_of_the_Spectacle

Also gang, numbers have dwindled a little of late so I propose a renewed marketing campaign. Print the post and stick it up in some good places so that we can suck in some more members..

This weeks reading (for tuesday 18th August) is Anne McNevin's text -

Political Belonging in a Neoliberal Era: The Struggle of the Sans-Papiers

click on the link to view. We will also be going over last weeks reading again, available here

Be the Pink Panther and your loves will be like the wasp and the orchid...

Here is the second reading we decided on for next week, alongside more of A Thousand Plateaus #3 '10,000 B.C.: The Geology of Morals (Who Does the Earth Think It Is?)'

Manuel De Landa ' The Geology of Morals: A Neo-Materialist Interpretation':

http://www.t0.or.at/delanda/geology.htm

And a useful outline summary of ATP #3:

http://www.protevi.com/john/DG/PDF/ATP3.pdf

Some Links for Capitalism and Schizophrenia

I haven't had time to go through all of these, but I enjoyed the illustrations a lot, and am just starting with the Hardt lecture notes. I didn't want to suggest these all as reading for the group per se, I thought I would just throw them onto the page and see if anyone is compelled to look into any of them and we'll see how that connects in with and fans out among the other conversations and readings. see you tomorrow! -abc (image from Marc Ngui, from the link below with pictures)

1000 Plateaus on Google Books (with significant portions available in preview, though I don't think they are printable):

http://books.google.com/books?id=B9xLrS6mpGoC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0

This links to lecture notes/chapter summaries by Michael Hardt on Anti-Oedipus and 1000 Plateaus (as well as Das Kapital):

http://www.duke.edu/~hardt/

These are some fun drawings / visual representations of the first two chapters of 1000 Plateaus:

http://www.bumblenut.com/drawing/art/plateaus/index.shtml

An entire "Wiki" (fledgling from the looks of it) on the series Capitalism & Schizophrenia:

http://www.capitalismandschizophrenia.org/index.php/Main_Page

Essay about the Translation of Agencement by Assemblage

http://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/elljwp/deleuzeandguattari.htm

D&G Web Resource page (including links to some De Landa)

http://www.langlab.wayne.edu/CStivale/D-G/Academe.html#anchor649215

"ABCs of Deleuze" on Youtube

http://www.langlab.wayne.edu/CStivale/D-G/ABCs.html

Realer than real

Here's the Masumi article to read for next week (along with chapter 2 of a thousand plateaus)

Realer than real: The simulacrum according to Deleuze and Guattari

I also came accross these quite useful summaries for various works by Deleuze/Guattari where the different chapters are broken down as an index of statements. can be quite useful for extracting the basic claims/arguments made...

Protevi's Notes

-Andres

Two resources for finding interesting texts:

http://a.aaaarg.org/

You need to create an account/username, then you can download the texts that you see on that page. Also, there are many discussions about various ideas and thinkers, some of which are very helpful.

http://www.avaxhome.ws/ebooks

This searchable site compiles links to various free and anonymous file uploading services (like rapidshare or uploading.com) from where you can download PDFs of over 100,000 texts. They don't have everything, but there's a lot of interesting stuff in here.

Also, a friend of mine at the FU who is taking classes with David Harvey this semester has been inspired to start a blog discussion forum. Harvey gave two free, public talks in the last week, but I didn't find out in time. I'll try to post details if I find out in time, and here's the blog:

http://harveydiscussion.tumblr.com/

-abc