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“There was a time before police, and there will be a time after.” by DeLesslin George-Warren On May 25, we will be discussing Andrew Johnson’s ‘Bureaucrats with guns: Or, how we can abolish the police if we just stop believing in them‘. The reading group will be led and moderated by Steve Bachelor. Register […]
MATERIAL PHOTOGRAPHIES READING GROUP
The Material Photographies Research Group meets regularly online to explore critical thinking/making around the photograph in its multiple forms and dynamic manifestations—to welcome new ways of thinking and celebrate the increasingly complex photosphere we inhabit. 24 May 2023 at 12.30 pm – 1.30 pm (GMT). We will be reading/watching the following (texts attached): Jacques Rancière’s essay “Is […]
FIGHT CLUB IN THE ART ENCOUNTERS BIENNIAL 2023
Fight Club installation by Nika Dubrovsky was invited to participate in the Art Encounters Biennial 2023 that will take place in Timisoara, Romania between 19 May – 16 July. The installation was created as a follow-up of the Fight Club theatrical performance and assembly first shown at HKW, Berlin 2022. Fight Club project is a series of theatrical dialogues designed […]
DEBT IN DISCUSSION WITH MICHAEL HUDSON
Our reading group on “Debt: The First 5,000 Years” has been meeting twice a month since October and is now coming to an end with two final meetings left. On May 18, the Museum of Care invited an economist Michael Hudson to talk about debt and many other subjects we’ve explored throughout the reading group. […]
ROY BHASKAR’S ‘ENLIGHTENED COMMON SENSE’ AND ‘FROM SCIENCE TO EMANCIPATION’ – READING GROUP PART 7
You can access the text here This session we will start reading Chapter 5 of Enlightened Common Sense. Register
MASTODON ASSEMBLY
Unlike other Mastodon servers, my idea is to try to leave the rules as open as possible and have ongoing discussions about them. I see our Mastodon server as an online laboratory for creating and recreating social relationships. We invite everyone to join us for this discussion. We hope it will lead to ongoing conversation, that would […]
DEBT: THE FIRST 5,000 YEARS BY DAVID GRAEBER – READING GROUP PART 12
Led and moderated by Steven Bachelor
PIRATE ENLIGHTENMENT DISCUSSION
In April 2023, we start a series of discussions and round tables online and offline and hope to continue them throughout the year. We invited friends of David Graeber, historians, anthropologists, artists, and activists to hold online meetings in which to talk about one of the topics covered in ‘Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia’. […]
ANOTHER ART WORLD, PART 1: ART COMMUNISM AND ARTIFICIAL SCARCITY
We will read Another Art World, Part 1: Art Communism and Artificial Scarcity by David Graeber and Nika Dubrovsky The idea for this reading group came from a question Max Puchalsky asked while reading Walter Benjamin’s text The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Max Puchalsky: I was also thinking about Another Art World, […]
BETWEEN FASCISM AND COMMUNISM: THE AESTHETICIZATION OF POLITICS AND THE POLITICIZATION OF ART
This is a follow-up of the reading group on Walter Benjamin’s text The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. We ran out of time to read Timothy O’Leary’s text Fat, Felt and Fascism: The Case of Joseph Beuys. This discussion will include the essay by Boris Groys On art activism, which makes reference both […]
DEBT: THE FIRST 5,000 YEARS BY DAVID GRAEBER – READING GROUP PART 11
Led and moderated by Steven Bachelor
ROY BHASKAR’S ‘ENLIGHTENED COMMON SENSE’ AND ‘FROM SCIENCE TO EMANCIPATION’ – READING GROUP PART 6
You can access the text here