Reading for Thursday 21:th - Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses

Text can be found here: http://rymdkoloni.se/ideology.pdf

January 17th: The Allure of Insurrection

The text for the next meeting is The Allure of Insurrection by Leonard Williams and Brad Thomson.
Available here. 
Meeting will take place at the Tempest library at 8pm.

6 December reading: Karen Barad

"'Subjects' and 'objects' do not preexist as such but are constituted through particular practices… in contrast to [Judith] Butler's more singular focus on the human body, the framework of agential realism does not limit its reassessment of the matter of bodies to the realm of the human. In fact, it calls for a critical examination of the practices by which the differential boundaries of the human and nonhuman are drawn, for these very same practices are always already implicated in particular materialisations"

Karen Barad is a theoretical physicist who applies concepts from physics to feminism & cultural studies. Follow link for a download of her article "Getting Real: Technoscientific Practices and the Materialisation of Reality" (1998):

http://www.mediafire.com/view/?ps4449nzw92qi6t

15th November reading: Nietzsche and Philosophy

                     "Into all abysses I still carry the blessings of my saying yes" (Zarathustra)

Following on from our discussion on nihilist politics in the last meeting we will be reading some sections from Nietzsche and Philosophy (1962) by Gille Deleuze:

Chapter 5 "The Overman: Against the Dialectic",  from section 9 "Nihilism and Transmutation: the focal point", until the end of that chapter (around 20 pages).
The book is available at aaaaarg.org.

This short text by Guerre au Paradis on nihilism in relation to anarchist movements would also be interesting to read alongside the Deleuze text:
http://stormheaven.wordpress.com/lifeasagamble/considerations-on-nihilism/

Reading for November 1st

 Identity in Crisis- from "Baedan: A journal of queer nihilism"

"Identities must be produced—produced as commodities and for commodities. Identification, that is, the process of re-creationism, is what produces these identities. Inherent in this production is a certain form of anti-identification that opposes itself to stable, essential, static and, ultimately, old-fashioned identity-forms in order to compel the production and marketing of new ones"


http://sfbay-anarchists.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/identity-in-crisis.pdf

Readings for October 4th

"Places to intervene in a system" by Donella H. Meadows, available here: http://www.developerdotstar.com/mag/articles/places_intervene_system.html

and

"Anarchism as a theory of organization" by Colin Ward, available here:
http://www.panarchy.org/ward/organization.1966.html

Texts were also sent out recently on the mailing list as pdfs.

Meeting at 8pm, Tempest Library.

Reading for the 20:th

Due to low turnup we are reading the same text as last time again for tomorrow, along with a presentation on some of the work of the groups in Stockholm and Oslo.