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  Dark Nights of the Universe et nox sicut dies illuminabitur A four-night theoretical exploration of mysticism in dialogue with "Du noir univers", a text by François Laruelle. April 26–29, 2012 at Recess Activities, 41 Grand Street, Ground Floor, New York, NY  Night I: Eugene Thacker – Remote: The Forgetting of the World Clodagh Emoe – Mystical Anarchism. Screening and discussion. Introduced by Simon Critchley. more..

On the May Day General StrikeAn evening of screening and open discussion about the May Day General Strike.more..

AIA CES: 2.5 LUs/2.5 HSW When: 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4 Where: The Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place 
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Familiarity with these materials is recommended for all courses: • Liber MMM • “Sympathetic Magic” • Twilight Alchemy Lab • Aunt Weed’s Rat Letter • Dandelomore..

  Culture and Action in Greenpoint, Jan 28 - Feb 27 Image by Erin Knutson more..

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  Facilitators: DSGN AGNC, DoTank:Brooklyn, BRUNO, 596 acres more..

Please join us to celebrate the publication of "FRENCH THEORY TODAY: AN INTRODUCTION TO POSSIBLE FUTURES" Sunday, December 4, 6pm 208 Bowery, 2nd floor  more..

Para-Academia | Session 6: Are Cyborg: Cyberstuff, Design, and the Great Body RemixFacilitated by Ethan Gould Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 8:00pm Observatory at Proteus Gowanus, 543 Union Street, Brooklyn more..

Please join us to celebrate the publication of"FRENCH THEORY TODAY: AN INTRODUCTION TO POSSIBLE FUTURES" Sunday, December 4, 7pm 208 Bowery, 2nd floor  more..

This Saturday, November 19 at 12:00pm | #whOWNSpace #UES #midtown #FiDi: Observe, Diagram, Intervene more..

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Inspired by conversations in and around Occupy Wall Street, I’d like to read some text about urbanism and talk about the with TPSNY and others at Occupy Wall Street. The premise (or the question) is that Capitalism is inherently associated with Urbanism, that the way cities are built and the way suburbs are created and the way natural resources are industrialized for urban spaces: the process is a material manifestation of how the Capitalism works.more..

Relative to the current debate over "close" versus "symptomatic" (New Historicist + psychoanalytic) reading strategies, Eileen Joy will outline a series of leading questions relative to what an inhuman or post/human “close reading” might look like, especially under the cross-disciplinary influence of the movements known as “speculative realism,” “object-oriented ontology,” “dark ecology,” “weird realism,” and “vibrant materialism&more..

This class will begin with a lesson followed by an open workshop. In the lesson we will demonstrate stitching signatures and folding and fitting covers using a custom jig; in the workshop we will transform stacks of printed pages into finished pamphlets. more..

  Introduction to Bizarro Fiction: Reading It, Understanding It, Writing It | Session 2  September 2, 2011 at 8:00pm at Observatory at Proteus Gowanus  Last Friday's pre-Irene session was a blast. This Friday, we invite you to join us for another round of Bizarro Fiction with Bradley Sands and Hollow Earth Society. If you missed the last session, not to worry—new participants are encouraged to attend.  Reading assigment: more..

Para-Academia & Theory Fiction | Session 4: Complicitous Continuums: The Horrors of the Cosmicist Earth, facilitated by Ben Woodard   Saturday, September 17 at 1:00pm at Observatory [You must enter through the blue front doors on Union Street. Push buzzer #1E.]  more..

Para-Academia & Theory Fiction | Session 3: Nabokov, Coincidence and Otherwordliness, facilitated by Steve Aubrey  Tuesday, August 23 at 8:00pm at Observatory  more..

Thanks to your generosity, we surpassed our initial goal and raised more than $35,000 to support the first year of programming for Triple Canopy, Light Industry and The Public School at 155 Freeman St., our new home. The additional funds will go toward lighting, painting, and perhaps best of all, new seating! more..

Introductory Sound Art/Electronic Music from Taeyoon Choi on Vimeo. This is a video from our final class.Mad props to Jackson (D.A.N) for curating and installing a dozen speakers and mixers. As well as the students who showed up with amazing sounds. The class is continuing, follow us in the mailing list to keep informed.    more..

This class will be a lecture / discussion led by Taeyoon Choi. more..

Hi We decided to give ourself about ten days to figure out March reading. One of the reading will be .... The Magna Carta Manifesto: Liberties and Commons for All http://aaaaarg.org/text/14537/magna-carta-manifesto-liberties-and-commons-all And (as suggested by Antonio. thanks :))  more..

This saturday 1pm at Eyebeam.  Colliding Sounds (Lead by Roddy Schrock) Intro. to the open source sound software SuperCollider. For any artist, sound or otherwise, that wants to learn basics of this sophisticated and free software, specifically in the context of how it can be used in installation environments (sound triggering, syncing, OSC communication) and live creative sample manipulation (buffers, buses, granular synthesis). Please bring your laptop and headphone  more..

Hi all. the following message is from Travis who will teach tomorrow's class. See you at Eyebeam 1pm.  We will have the class inside of conference room, which you can find toward your right side of the entrance.  Leave a comment here to show you are coming.      more..

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Next month's reading will be selected chapters from following books. We will decide upon specific chapter in the coming weeks. Until then, feel free to read and share thoughts. Aaaaarg.org is the primary archive used by the Public School.  If you are having difficulty signing in to aaaaarg.org archive, please let us know, we can share pdf in alternative method. Next meeting will be Feb 26th 2pm at NYPL Mulberry branch  Marx's ecology- materialism and nature more..

This is a blank page for Urban Foraging's reading/discussion for meeting 3. This page will be updated by January 12th.  It will happen Jan 29th 2pm at NY Public Library in Soho http://www.nypl.org/locations/mulberry-street MAIN READINGS: [PDF] Gessert, "The Rise of Ornamental Plants" ch 4, pp.33-40. Green Light: Toward an Art of Evolution, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2010. (NYPL Schwarzman) more..

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In order to give French Theory Today another life in another format, we're compiling and printing a pamphlet series, to include all five lectures, a transcription of each day's Q&A (or approximation thereof), class handouts (Stiegler glossary, Laruelle diagrams, + +), and entries by you, the class participants.more..

Two diagrams illustratring central concepts in the work of François Laruelle.   more..

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For this session of Disorganizing Sound, TPSNY invites you to DJ the final party at 177 Livingston St., perhaps drawing inspiration from previous sessions, whether that means Nyman or disco or Ayler.  Bring your own music, step up to the decks (and/or iPod) and help us say farewell, 177.more..

Saturday, October 30th: The last event at 177 Livingston, hosted by Triple Canopy, Light Industry and the Public School. A farewell to 177 Livingston, and a welcome to our future.     more..

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Disorganizing Sound: Twentieth Century Improvised Music and the Beyond | Session 4: Space and Body Sunday, October 24 at 4pm at 177 Livingston, Brooklyn No class limit; all are welcome to attend   more..

Disorganizing Sound: Twentieth Century Improvised Music and the Beyond | Session 2 has been scheduled for Sunday, September 19, 5:00 pm, at 177 Livingston; with Connie Crothers, Matana Roberts, and Andrea Parkins. No class limit; all are welcome to attend   more..

Disorganizing Sound: Twentieth Century Improvised Music and the Beyond | Session 3 has been scheduled for Thursday, September 30 at 7pm at 177 Livingston, Brooklyn No class limit; all are welcome to attend   more..

We are excited to announce the opening of THE PUBLIC SCHOOL BERLIN. On 18 September at 19:00 we will hold an event at Program (http://www.programonline.de/) called The Future of THE PUBLIC SCHOOL BERLIN.    more..

Texts + Textures: A Writing Workshop | Session 2: Mimi Zeiger/loud paper Sunday, August 22 at 1:00pm at Fort Greene Park | Meet at the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument (150ft fluted column at the top of the hill) In order to prepare for this session, please read the following: more..

There is nothing less passive than the act of fleeing...Day 3: Site Observation Exiting the Wall Street subway station, I am caught in the flow of tourists on foot that includes a Boy Scout troop in snake-like formation. Men in suits weave in and out. A young woman with an armful of folders and spiral notebooks clickety-clacks by me. It’s the latter part of rush hour so these are just stragglers heading home or heading out for a Friday night. more..

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This line from Tiqqun’s Introduction to Civil War keeps resonating in my mind: 3. Each body is affected by its form-of-life as if by a clinamen, a penchant, a leaning, an attraction, a taste. What a body leans toward also leans toward it. This goes for each and every situation. All inclinations are reciprocal.  more..

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The Urban Foraging Group would like to screen The Gleaners and I on either Saturday, August 21 at 6:30pm or Thursday, August 26 at 8:00/8:30pm. All who are interested in attending, please indicate (in the comments section) which date works for you. (Ava Chin can join us on Thursday evening so please consider that date. For newcomers, we’d love to have you meet her in person.) more..

There is nothing less passive than the act of fleeing...v2 (New York) Please join us as we respond to the Public School’s 13-day seminar "There is nothing less passive than the act of fleeing..." which took place in Berlin on July 4–18, 2010. We invite you to sketch, scheme and build new imaginaries at select sites in New York City for the next 6.5 days.   more..

Perhaps this was very precisely what being an emigrant meant: to see a sword where the sculptor, in all good faith, had thought he was putting a torch.... more..

There is nothing less passive than the act of fleeing... Deadlock: perpetual war, failing economies, the crumbling of education, capitalist realism, our environment in ruin, hostility everywhere. Resistance? Confrontation? Insurrection? Exodus: silence, autonomy, occupation, withdrawl, invisibility, friendship.  more..

The following are readings that may supplement Perec’s The Scene of A Flight and Kracauer’s Boredom. (Thank you, Paris, for your recommendations.) From Colors / Black by Paul La Farge Cabinet, Issue 36, Friendship, Winter 2009/10  more..

The Urban Foraging Group will be meeting in late July or sometime in August to screen the following film. If you’re interested in joining us, please sign up on the class page by clicking on “+I’m interested”. The Gleaners and I From Wikipedia: The Gleaners and I (French: Les glaneurs et la glaneuse) is a French documentary by Agnès Varda that features the practice of gleaning. It was screened out of competition at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. more..

The Job Application By Robert Walser Esteemed gentlemen, more..

The Italian/French legacy of the exodus, even if it no longer allows dreaming of a completely different outside, is not at all to be understood as harmless, individualist, or escapist-esoteric.more..

As Berlin completes 13 days of "There is nothing less passive than the act of fleeing...", momentum is gathering in New York to follow the same scheme: 13 days (or so) of open reading group meetings at meaningful sites throughout the city. With additions and substitutions to Berlin's reading list as we see fit. Taking place in August? Sign up ("I'm interested") to plan or to get news.more..

We have setup a mailing list for “There is nothing less passive than the act of fleeing.”Click here to signup.   This is a discussion list for The Public School project, “There is nothing less passive than the act of fleeing.”   ** What this list is for **   1. We will post any last minute details for or changes to meeting places here. 2. It will be the place for any follow-up discussion and some kind of daily summary. more..

Conversion Strategies: Temporary-Use and the Visual Arts | Session 1: Defining Temporary-UseThursday, June 24, 7pm at 177 Livingston   The first session of "Conversion Strategies" will attempt to define temporary-use through an examination of current and related practices. Participants will address the practical considerations of producing shows for such spaces, as well as other questions previously noted in the class proposal.   With presentations by:   more..

Itinerary (in a list). See also, on a map.  Fraunces Tavern  Stone Street  Museum of the American Indian  Collect Pond  Time Landscape  Minetta Street  2 Fifth Avenue  Minetta  Union Square  Zoo  Summit Rock & Tanner's Spring more..

Disorganizing Sound: Twentieth Century Improvised Music and the Beyond | Session 1 has been scheduled for Sunday, June 13, 5:00 pm at 177 Livingston, Brooklyn No class limit; all are welcome to attend   more..

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As noted in comments, we invite students, teachers, sympathizers to contribute to an annotated bibliography for The Page + Screen. Anything you want to see included, send to thepublicschoolny@gmail.com by May 10. The printed product will be available at the The Public School Party on May 22 and, until supplies run out, at an occasional bookstore on the Lower East Side.   more..

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Thanks so much to Karen and the attendees at the first session for a great discussion. Here are some of the themes, topics and questions that emerged—please feel free to add! Anne ### On replicable models for independent journalism Democracy Now! is a commercial-free program produced by a non-profit organization funded by individuals, foundations, and licensing fees. Is it realistic for other news organizations to follow this model? more..

Saturday, April 24, 12–4pm, Dexter Sinister at 38 Ludlow Street in Manhattan, taught by David Reinfurt.Class limit: 15. This session is now full. Email thepublicschoolny@gmail.com to add your name to the waiting list. All sessions of The Page + The Screen are FREE. Portable Document Formats more..

The Page + The Screen: Siting Text in the Early 21st Century and Beyond | Session 4 Sunday, April 11, 4 pm, at 177 Livingston; taught by Rick PrelingerAll sessions of The Page + The Screen are FREE.   more..

The Page + The Screen: Siting Text in the Early 21st Century and Beyond | Session 3 Tuesday, March 2, 7:15pm, at The Reanimation Library at 543 Union Street, Brooklyn; Class limit: 10 students; taught by Andrew BecconeAll sessions of The Page + The Screen are FREE. more..

The Page + The Screen: Siting Text in the Early 21st Century and Beyond | Session 2 Thursday, February 25, 7:30 pm, at 177 Livingston; taught by Bob Stein + Dan Visel All sessions of The Page + The Screen are FREE. more..

The Page + The Screen: Siting Text in the Early 21st Century and Beyond | Session 1 Sunday, February 21, 5 pm, at 177 Livingston; taught by Caleb Waldorf All sessions of The Page + The Screen are FREE. more..

Sirens Taken for Wonders (Panel Discussion) NOT (Siren Watch) will be held at: Van Alen Institute  30 West 22nd Street, 6th Floor  New York, NY 10010   Sirens Taken for Wonders (Siren-Watch) will be held at: Performa HUB  41 Cooper Square  New York, NY 10003   The correct address for The Public School for Rubbing is: BLANK SL8  641 8th Ave New York, NY 10014 more..

at Ten Days for Oppositional Architecture An Architektur Tuesday November 17, 2009 7:00-11:00pm Gair Building No 6, 81 Front Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201   Please join us at the Public School (for Architecture) New York Student Lounge.  A space that during the free period is a place for students to relax and socialize, the Student Lounge also represents a place for dissident elements to engage in oppositional discussion.   Ten Days for Oppositional Architecture more..

  Session Two of The Public School (for Architecture), in collaboration with Performa, as part of Performa09, the third visual art performance biennial, goes into the final week with:   Sirens Taken for Wonders (Siren Workshop) on Tuesday 11/17 at 11:00am  The Public School for Rubbing** is on Wednesday 11/18 at 1:00pm Stupid Rhino Tricks* is on Wednesday 11/18 at 6:30pm more..

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REPRESENTING THE SOCIAL CENTER MOVEMENT Class led by Alan W. Moore   Tuesday, October 20, 2009 4:00pm-6:00pm   Center for Architecture 536 Laguardia PlaceNY, NY 10012     more..

Session One of The Public School (for Architecture) begins this week - today, in fact! - with Finding Architecture on Tuesday afternoon at 4pm, Bigness, or the Problem of Scale on Friday, and two classes on Saturday: Ecology and Design NOW followed by The Public School (for Architecture).    All classes for Session 1 (unless otherwise noted) will be held at the Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place (between Bleecker and 3rd St.) more..

Please join us for the Public School (for Architecture) New York's inaugural Open House and launch of the Teachers Lounge at the Van Alen Institute. Through the duration of the fellowship term, the Teachers Lounge will serve as a resource for the Public School (for Architecture) faculty, and a meeting place for School participants to discuss classes, curricula, and related topics of interest.more..