Great class and stimulating discussion!
This may not be met which much enthusiasm (perhaps even with scoffs) but I would love a class on time travel--how it's been portrayed in popular culture, the possibility of it from a physics standpoint (what would it take to actually travel in time and what vessel would such travel require, hot tub, tardis or otherwise?), and a general discussion of why humans are so fascinated by the notion.
This studio/class will use design and urban theory to critically study the design, ownership, and rules of Greenpoint's open spaces and infrastructure as part of the #whOWNSpace project. The lens for the studio will be on neighborhood power dynamics around space, focusing on the potential of open space to create democratic vitality.
Meet up: 155 Freeman St, Brooklyn
This Public School NYC studio/class will use design and urban theory to critically study the design, ownership, and rules of Greenpoint's open spaces and infrastructure as part of the #whOWNSpace project. The lens for the studio will be on neighborhood power dynamics around space, focusing on the potential of open space to create democratic vitality.
Got word this is approved and will be scheduled soon - who's ready?
Hello,
If there is anyone still interested in reading and discussing this book, let me know. I think that is it is timely material to hash out.
I live in Brooklyn and am willing to travel up to a 40 minute commute as a central location for other participants.
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think this sounds great- definitely a good idea to possibly compose a list of ways to structure the rotating teachers/ visiting lecturers during the first class depending on the interest level shown amongst the people who are in attendance. I feel this is an enormous amount of material to be covered. do love the veracity of it. wondering if it's a good idea to bring in the notion of "biopolitics, narrative and temporality" in regards to "attention." For example, Merav Amir has a great text on "Bio-Temporality and Social Regulation: the Emergence of the Biological Clock." Not sure if this becomes too wide in scope in combination with the theme at hand, or if it would help to mend some of the mentioned topics in the class proposal.
Here are a bunch of possible texts to read that came up in our initial discussions, or were leftovers from the old reading group. Please continue to add whatever other suggestions in the comments section. And bring ideas each time to the meetings, and we'll decide together where to go next, based on whatever everyone's feeling.
--The Ego and its Own - Max Stirner, 1845
--Solution of the Social Problem - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, 1848
--Revolutionary Government - Peter Kropotkin, 1880
--"We Scholars" - Friedrich Nietzsche, 1886: http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/Nietzsche/beyondgoodandevil6.htm
--The Will to Power - Friedrich Nietzsche, 1901
--The Social General Strike - Stephen Naft, 1905: http://www.mediafire.com/?t37d5nxsvshzdcr
--The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions - Rosa Luxemburg, 1906: http://www.marxists.org/archive/luxemburg/1906/mass-strike/index.htm
As information circulates more rapidly and more cheaply, it seems like we are told with increasing frequency and in an increasing number of places that our flourishing or floundering as subjects is dependent upon our attention—on the ways and manner in which we exert, regulate, and allocate it. Franco Berardi, for example, writing in a recent issue of e-flux Journal, argues that “in a semiocapitalist world the main commodity becomes attention,” describing an economy in which what we produce and consume are not so much durable goods but rather quantities (or qualities) of attention. An article in New York magazine asks if we are living through a “crisis of attention,” and then cites a study showing that people who frequently check their email have tested as less intelligent than people who are high on marijuana.
Dark Nights of the Universe
et nox sicut dies illuminabitur
April 26–29, 7pm
155 Freeman St, Brooklyn
A four-night theoretical exploration of mysticism in dialogue with Du noir univers, a short text by François Laruelle.
Night I: Eugene Thacker – Remote: The Forgetting of the World
Night II: Daniel Colucciello Barber - Whylessness: The Universe is Deaf and Blind
Clodagh Emoe, Mystical Anarchism. Screening and discussion.
Night III: Nicola Masciandaro – Secret: No Light Has Ever Seen the Black Universe
Night IV: Alexander Galloway – Rocket: Present at Every Point of the Remote