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Are people interested in doing this early July? I would be up for facilitating this, maybe 2 -3 weeknight evenings a week. The reading list is pretty light, but super interesting.

I can't be in Berlin unfortunately, being too far away geographically, but I would be interested to find out how it goes at that end, if anyone's planning to do a brief report in the aftermath. Would be useful guide for others in their pedagogic attempts!

They are attempting a similar concept (but for them, it's the deinstitutionalized university) in Melbourne. A friend's involved in it

http://melbournefreeuniversity.org

Hi Everyone,

We're starting on Tuesday... still waiting for the readers to arrive, but in the meantime, let's use aaarg.

For the first meetings, let's start with

- INTRODUCTION TO CIVIL WAR (sections 3 and four - "Excerpts" in aarg) by TIQQUN

- Speculations on the Stationary State by Gopal Balakrishnan

The Tiqqun text is many pages, but not too dense.

See you Tuesday!
Liz

hello everyone,

this is a report back from the first la meeting. attendance was low but the discussion was still good. in case anyone was confused, we are in fact meeting in los angeles at the public school. for next week we will be reading the final section of 'introduction to civil war' (titled 'how is it to be done'), agamben's 'the friend', and condorelli and weizman's 'support, participation, and relationships to equity'. we will once again be meeting at 8pm on tuesday (the 20th) at the public school (951 chung king rd). :)

Hi.
Did decide readings for tomorrow's class will be;

POLITICS OF THE COMMON by MICHAEL HARDT
LIFE IN LIMBO by TURBULENCE EDITORS
ANIMAL SPIRITS: A BESTIARY OF THE COMMONS by MATTEO PASQUINELLI

Is this correct?
PASQUINELLI is about 200 pages. Can we focus on one section of it?
Any suggestion, Liz?

I also had hard time finding POLITICS OF THE COMMON by MICHAEL HARDT on AAAarg. So here is the link I found on line.

http://www.zcommunications.org/politics-of-the-common-by-michael-hardt

Hi everyone,

For tonight, let's focus on the Hardt, the Turbulence piece (specifically, Life in Limbo), and Chapter 11 from the Pasquellini. Sorry for any confusion! See you tonight.

-L

Oops - that's pages 72 - 91, Digitalism, chapter 2, in the Pasquellini.

great class tonight. heres the website i mentioned which releases public data from the us gov:
http://www.data.gov/

Hi. Sorry I had to leave early today… but did you guys decide what will be the readings for the next week???

getting the local news
info on kubidah kitchen (skype meal between pittsburgh and tehran):

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2010/07/cooking-up-...

http://www.kubidehkitchen.com/

http://sazmanab.com/

Hello, I am very seriously interested in coming to these, but I'm currently in the south of mexico for 2 weeks and will be back in august. When are the dates for meetings in august?

we have been meeting every tuesday night at 8pm. We usually cover one or two days worth of the berlin session's reading list per tuesday night. For example we are reading day7 for next tuesday. during august we won't be meeting at thepublicschool, instead we will be deciding locations week to week. next tuesday's location will be posted here shortly.

Does anybody have a digital source to download/buy the Pasquinelli? I noticed some people had it on their laptops...thanks!

@wildpony all the readings are listed and linked here: http://thepublicschool.org/thereisnothinglesspassive/thantheactoffleeing...

animal spirits is: http://aaaaarg.org/?q=text/5951/animal-spirits-bestiary-commons

so we are offering to meet in our studio next week if that seems like a good option: 970 north broadway #212 (mandarin plaza)... but definitely other more exotic locations would be cool as well... maybe meeting at some sort of commons? :)

Solomon,

I thought we are doing "THEORY OF THE QUASI-OBJECT by
MICHEL SERRES" next week…

yes thats right. i think we are doing that and day7.

OK. Thanks.

luke, i think we should use your space for this coming session and from there decide on future locations. we can think of using your studio as expropriating the private and turning it into the commons. :)

Hi everyone,

Readers for the class are finally arriving today. They will be available for $12 at tomorrow evenings' class in Luke and Sara's studio.

We are reading the Serres "Theory of the Quasi Object", and all of the reading from "Day 7":

Communique from an absent future - Research and Destroy

Prolegomena to Any Future Philosophy
Nathan Brown, Marija Cetinić, Gopal Balakrishnan, Aaron Benanav, Jasper Bernes, Chris Chen, Joshua Clover, Maya Gonzalez, Timothy Kreiner, Laura Martin, Jason Smith, Evan Calder Williams

Intellectuals and Power
Michel Foucault + Gilles Delueze

see you there!
Liz

great class tonight. thank you sarah and luke for letting us into (and out of) your studio.

just to recap: for next week we are reading the paulo virno text and we will be meeting at the chinatown gold line station at 8pm.

just to follow up on the discussion thread about bruno latour / actor-network-theory:

if anyone was up for reading and discussing a short text, i would suggest "from realpolitik to dingpolitik - or how to make things public" (found in bruno latour essay collection 1: http://aaaaarg.org/text/4110/bruno-latour-essay-collection-1)

for more extensive background reading, i would suggest "we have never been modern" and "reassembling the social" by bruno latour, and graham harman's "prince of networks", especially chapter 7 ("object-oriented philosophy").

Have you seen the new the text from the invisible comitee ? They distributed it during a recent strike in paris :

http://www.davduf.net/Tarnac-la-mise-au-point-du-Comite.html

There is also a new video "Et la guerre est à peine commencée..."

http://www.bloom0101.org
http://www.bloom0101.org/etlaguerre.html

hi everyone,

great class tonight - on the gold line no less!

for next week, please read

Joan Didion's "Slouching Toward Bethlehem" (excerpt)
Jacques Lacan "Analyticon"
Roland Barthes "Neutral"

All should be linked on aaarg via the main site for the Berline class.

Optional text: pick something Zapatista-related or otherwise which proposes an alternative to the theory of exodus.

Will post location / food info shortly.

x
Liz

comprehensive collection of writings by subcomandante marcos:

http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/mexico/marcos_index.html

Hi, there wasn't really a way to personally contact any of the D.A.N. members so here I am! My name is Sharon Yi and I wanted to write an article about the Public School in an LA-based art magazine. My email is yi.sharondipity@gmail.com. If I could be directed to the people who founded this and/or are heavily involved that would be great! Also, Sean Dockray, hopefully you will read this -- if you could email me as well I would love to speak with you! Thanks.

luke, could you recommend a particular essay or two?

sharon, if you haven't already gotten through i can email you sean's contact info. my email is ssbothwell@gmail.com

i found this animated gif and thought it was a perfect depiction of virno's friend/enemy sinusoid metaphor.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/Sumafasores.gif

Are we still doing a potluck/dinner meeting tomorrow evening?

My e-mail is: simone.drucker@gmail.com if somebody wants to contact me directly.

On the side of the reading, I've been holding up the Exodus Theory to themes in Star Trek Next Generation...

Are we still doing a potluck/dinner meeting tomorrow evening?

My e-mail is: simone.drucker@gmail.com if somebody wants to contact me directly.

On the side of the reading, I've been holding up the Exodus Theory to themes in Star Trek Next Generation...

hey everyone,

Yes, we're still on for dinner. Let's start at 7:30pm so we've got time for food and the pile of readings we've got ahead of us. I have got dinner covered, but if anyone else wants to bring salad and/or drinks, that would be great.

-Liz

Excellent class guys.

For next week, we are reading:

Day 10:
Quitting (Koch)
The Scene of Flight (Perec)

Day 11:
To Have Done w/ the Massacre of the Body (Guattari)
The Affectivist Manifesto (Brian Holmes)

We will meet at the Westin Bonaventure swimming pool and adjourn for drinks following in the revolving bar. Join us.

-L

Dear All,
It turns out I do have a class beginning next Tuesday evening. I'm hoping we can switch to Wednesday night for next week??

thanks,
Jordan

Wednesday, 8pm, Bonaventure pool?

Yes.

-L

Perfect. Hopefully for all others as well. Thanks, Jordan

sounds good to me.

sorry to throw a wrench into the schedule-- but i can never attend on a wednesday night...
would it be possible to meet on a monday or thursday?
S

Thursday is fine with me. Monday with difficulty. But please, since I threw the first wrench, whatever works best for everyone else.

Jordan

Let's say Thursday.

Bonaventure pool? Luke, wanna give better directions?

-Liz

wow, i think i might actually be able to make it on thurs.

but the link to quitting by koch seems to be bad. anyone have one that works?

Thursday, perfect. Thanks!

yay! found the link for the koch:

http://northeastwestsouth.net/quitting-conversation-alexander-koch-parad...

ok so thursday at eight at the bonaventure... most direct way to get to the pool level is to take one of the exterior staircases that are on the east (flower) and west (figueroa) sides of the building just north of 5th street all the way to the top.

alternatively, you can go through the main figueroa street entrance (between 4th and 5th streets) and take the nearest escalator up to the swimming pool level (level 4 i am pretty sure). take a right when getting off the elevator, follow signs for swimming pool if you see them. pass french kitchen, angry chef, etc and go to the outside through the double doors.

i guess we're going to try to meet in the swimming pool area, which is straight ahead. there is a short staircase on the left, and a low gate. reach over the gate casually and let yourself in with the handle. there are towels provided.

if this seems too sketchy, we can meet at one of the clusters of tables / chairs / umbrellas by the flower street side on the same level, or on the lawn...

so complicated!

Unfortunately, I can't make it tomorrow :( -Simone

If willing to travel to the West side next Thursday, I'm offering my house to meet. With barbecue, and nice places to sit around. Not very public though.

Jordan

hey guys - what are the readings that were decided on for this week? thank you!

i think we are doing all of day 12 and 13.

liz, we spoke early today about what day we should meet. i just realized i have classes starting this week on tuesday nights. however, thursday works fine for me. what about everyone else?

I will definitely be in town thursday and would love to come finally!

thurs works for me. what were the readings? claire fontaine + ...?

Are you guys doing this Thursday? I can't do the readings due to jet lag and general delirium, but I may be able to stop by and say hi.

Zen

Yes, Thursday, 8pm, at the Public School. Readings are Day 12 and 13:

Ready-Made Artist and Human Strike: A Few Clarifications
Claire Fontaine

Invisible Man (prologue)
Ralph Ellison

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there is some talk of having a barbeque - luke, do you still have a grill?

see you there!
Liz