Reading for thursday 29:th april

For next week we will be reading Steve Goodman a.k.a Kode9, Electronic music artist, DJ and founder of the Hyperdub record label.

The scope for the first meeting is the introduction and first two chapters.

Link to the pdf book: Sonic Warfare

'After the Greek Riots'

Great blog from Occupied London covering the current situation in Greece:

http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/

Reading for thursday 15:th

Important change:
Meetings are now on thursdays!

We are continuing reading Capitalist realism, probably the whole book until next time (it's very short). Look at previous entry for pdf link.

Reading for wednesday April 7:th

Capitalist Realism (pdf), by Mark Fisher.
As far as you want but maybe we should focus on the first and second chapters for the first meeting, i find a lot of really nice material in this text.

Update: wednesday 7:th not 8:th as previously claimed in title.

Readings and audio for Wednesday 31st March

1. The rest of 'The Coming Insurrection' by The Invisible Commitee
http://tarnac9.wordpress.com/texts/the-coming-insurrection

2. Short article by Alberto Toscano on the case of the Tarnac 9: 'Criminalising Dissent' http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/jan/28/human-rights-tarnac-nine

3. Mark Fisher (K Punk) discussing some ideas from his book 'Capitalism Realism', available here:
http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2010/02/mark-fisher-nubureaucracy-and-capitalist-realism/

Reading for wednesday 24:th

The reading for next week is the first two parts (or circles as the book calls them) of 'The coming insurrection'.
The book can be accessed in its whole at this address
http://tarnac9.wordpress.com/texts/the-coming-insurrection

The TV anchor and concerned citizen Glenn Beck also offers some critical comments on this text, available at youtube!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKyi2qNskJc

Readings for Wednesday 17th March: Badiou vs Deleuze!

Gilles Deleuze, 'What is the Event' chapter, in The Fold.
Available at http://a.aaaarg.org.

And: Alain Badiou 'The Event in Deleuze'.
Available here: http://www.parrhesiajournal.org/parrhesia02/parrhesia02_badiou2.pdf