By Geert Lovink and Patrice Riemens
posted on 30 August, 2010
http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/geert/2010/08/30/ten-theses-on-wikileaks/
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“What do I think of Wikileaks? I think it would be a good idea!” (after Mahatma Gandhi’s famous quip on ‘Western Civilisation’)
On September 4-5, we will be discussing the Future of the Public School and continuing some of the conversations from The UC strikes and beyond and Continental Drift / Control Society / Metamorphosis. We're fortunate that Brian Holmes will be back in Los Angeles and proposed the class, which will "look at the cultural roots of the current university crisis, and in that light, to explore the role that experiments like The Public School could play in re-imagining education."
The destiny of social movements is to change the structure of human relations -- so be careful what you ask for! This class aims to look at the cultural roots of the current university crisis, and in that light, to explore the role that experiments like The Public School could play in re-imagining education. The class would be discussion based and the proposal can be expanded/completed/reoriented by other inputs. It's proposed for September 4-5, when I can visit LA.
i am putting out an open call for semiotext(e) reading group facilitators. each facilitator would focus on one book and follow some of the source material and references used in the book. the idea is to have at least one person well versed in each book's material to help keep the discussion moving.
here is a list of volunteers so far:
the coming insurrection - zen dochterman 9/18
the screwball asses - liz glynn 11/20
the violence of financial capitalism - sean dockray 10/2
introduction to civil war - jason smith 10/16
a thousand machines - claudia (missfirn) 11/13
the agony of power - Caleb Waldorf 10/30
please comment on this note if you wish to facilitate one of the remaining books. once we have six volunteers i will go ahead and schedule the class.
If anyone is curious about the concept of the master, and the language structure proposed in Lacan's riotous seminar, there's a good link indexing all the seminars' content here:
http://www.lacan.com/seminars1a.htm
See June 29, 1955 (book II), May 25th, 1955, June 15, 1955. The purloined letter is also iconic, if you're really into it.
The seminars are downloadable from aaarg.
I'm afraid I proposed the workshop in LA while it actually will be happening in Brussels!
But ofcourse you are very welcome to come to Brussels :D
Maybe somebody else can teach it in LA?
i would like to get this class scheduled if we can find someone interested in teaching. if you or someone you know would like to teach this class, please respond to this note or contact me.
“Let’s not throw away anything”
The participants of this workshop will make sculptures with seasonable vegetables, pulses and other edible things.
Afterwards we will dismantle the sculptures and cook them into a delicious dinner.
10 participants maximum!
a reading group for the strange and contradictory. possibilities include but are never limited to: alfred jarry, antonin artaud, daniel paul schreber, members of collège de 'pataphysique,' and radio alice.
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Topographies of Apprehension
A film leaves my body trembling and spent, my breathe short, but my thoughts calm. When something inhabits me like a film or text, the location in the subterranean sites of my apprehension are often already habitat to the elements of memory and meaning. The process of experience is not then merely a reception of vessels of certain values