10/21: 10/28: “We are thinking that we read the chapter in the book called Magic Death”. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/o/ohp/13106496.0001.001/1:9/–realist-magic-objects-ontology-causality?rgn=div1;view=fulltext
Meta discussion 10/14
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Reading for 10/7
Please read the last four chapters of The Freeze-Frame Revolution: Birnam Wood, User Friendly, Dinosaur Day, and I Found my Eight Note. That will be pages 64-116. Potential Things to Consider Relationships. Defining them. What is the difference between a friend, a lover, a coworker, a comrade, a collaborator, an associate, a roommate, and an acquaintance?… Continue reading Reading for 10/7
Reading for 9/30
PDF: The Freeze-Frame Revolution Please read four chapters: Back When We, Occasional Demons, and Meltdown, Undertow. These are pages 13-62. The Freeze-Frame Revolution is the first full length book that this particular incarnation of this group will read together. It is a fiction novel, and the first half is mostly story set-up and world building,… Continue reading Reading for 9/30
Reading for 9/23
This week, we’re reading two selections from a work of the late French philosopher Michel Serres. Michel Serres – Animal Spirits & The Five Senses Supplemental listening material:
Reading for 9/16
Henri Bergson – The Possible and the Real
Reading for 9/9
Linkola, Part I Linkola, Part II
Reading for 9/2
We’re gonna try something a little different this week. We have for you a TV interview and an excerpt from a podcast conversation. Also included are additional materials referenced in these clips. But reading these is completely optional for anyone who wants to dig deeper. How does the State conceptualize the genesis of its enemies?… Continue reading Reading for 9/2
Reading for 8/26
From the introduction to the second issue (isiw.noblogs.org): Does insurrectionary anarchism mean the conscious intensification of attack by individuals and groups? Or is it the generalization of revolt its tools and skills-to every part of society? Are these two mutually exclusive? What is the point of the named group? Does this merely invite repression? Does… Continue reading Reading for 8/26
Reading for 8/19
“Anchoring, according to [Peter Wessel] Zapffe, is the ‘fixation of points within, or construction of walls around, the liquid fray of consciousness’. The anchoring mechanism provides individuals a value or an ideal that allows them to focus their attentions in a consistent manner…Zapffe also applied the anchoring principle to society, and stated ‘God, the Church,… Continue reading Reading for 8/19