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made a note: "new music for a new age" begins Sunday at 3pm!
Part listening party, part discussion, new music for a new age will focus on experimental music created by prominent figures of experimental religion and the new age in America starting around 1940. Facilitated by Adam Overton, here is a schedule of what will be covered over the 4 weeks.
week 1 - eden abhez: nature boy and nat king cole; art & religiosity
week 2 - the music of zen - john cage & alan watts
week 3 - beyond jazz - the music of albert ayler and sun ra; the church of john coltrane
(co-facilitated by special guest, Steven L. Anderson)
week 4 - new religion and music in the 1960s - anton lavey & the source family
For more information and to sign up, go here: http://la.thepublicschool.org/class/2253
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made a note: About Wednesday's "Alter-Globalization" class...
Alter-Globalization meets on Wednesday night at 9pm... here are some notes about what we'll be discussing from Michael Wilson:
I think it would be great to discuss this article from Third Text on Wednesday: From Communism to Commons
This text is a conversation between David Riff and Dmitry Vilensky (Chto delat?), and they take up a lot of themes that have emerged in discussions among those involved in Beyond the UC Strikes over the past several months.
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There are not many people who, upon reaching positions of relative power and security, continue to fight for social justice with the same ferocity and determination as they did before there was something to lose. Professor Ricardo Dominguez is one of those rare examples and he is currently under attack from the University of California, ostensibly for a Virtual Sit-In during the March 4 system-wide walkout. Undoubtedly, it also stems from bang.lab's recent project, the Transborder Immigrant Tool, which has attracted death threats from Tea Bag conservatives.
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made a note: New Library Donations! (March 2010)
Tracts from The Tract House, courtesy of Lisa Anne Auerbach
X-TRA volumes 10-12, courtesy of X-TRA
Donated by Cybelle Tondu (for when we restart the Outdoor Chess Club!)
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We have eliminated all academic departments commonly found in our schools and universities (science, math, art, english, physical education, history, architecture, etc.) and replaced them with six emphases: building, eating, arranging, growing, playing, and curiosity. Whereas "cross-listed" classes have been atypical, every class in the new school for a socialist colony will combine two or more emphases.
A little more explanation about the terms -- building: having to do with structures of inhabitation, or more generally the combination of things into something new; eating: about the consumption of things; arranging: relating to the redistribution of things; growing: having to do with the relationship between things and their environment; playing: the production, destruction, or misuse of things; and curiosity: a space for the experience of not-knowing.
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proposed A school for a socialist colony
The Public School is participating in "An Exhibition of Proposals for a Socialist Colony" in Houston, presented by the artists run-space, Skydive. Our contribution will be 40 class proposals, much in the same spirit as the way the school works already. It is purely speculative, an exercise in desire and imagination, but maybe also a context in which to argue about utopias and overcoming capitalism.
This class would be a 2 hour workshop where we would produce the 40 (or more) proposals, alternating between discussing, making, sharing, and repeating. In addition to the exhibition, we will also print a small publication with the same material, using our fantastic new (to us) Risograph.
Everyone who participates will be credited equally in both the exhibition as well as the publication. If you can't make it on Saturday but wish you could, then you're encouraged to add proposals in the comments below!
6 people are interested
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made a note: Occupy Everything
made a note: Letter from Brian Holmes
Dear friends -
Greetings, this is just a note to say how much I'm looking forward to meet everyone who will participate in the upcoming sessions in Southern California. All those I've been in touch with seem to be taking it as a chance to reflect on the current political and economic situation and on the shocks affecting cultural and intellectual production - which is exactly the point. I'm committed to the project of self-organized seminars and also to critical insertions in institutional contexts, and I really appreciate the enthusiasm that has been put into preparing these events. Thanks in advance to everyone who has been organizing: Zen Dochterman, Cara Baldwin, Jason Smith, Sean Dockray, Liz Glynn, Solomon Bothwell, Christina Ulke, Marc Herbst, Robby Herbst, the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest and the Public School, as well as a number of others in various corners of the UC system.
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made a note: typography is back!
Sometimes a class proposal generates a lot of interest and then when it is finally offered, nobody registers for it. That's what happened almost two years ago when we first tried to offer typography.
Well we're excited to say that we've finally rescheduled the class to meet on 4 consecutive Sundays beginning January 24th. And this time it will definitely be happening, as it is already beginning to fill up! So if you want to register, you can do it at the class web page.
The class will be taught by Sean Deyoe to make you more typographically self-sufficient... there are rumors of bicycles, Risographs, and in situ signage typeface history.
more..is interested in Ranciere: The Emancipated Spectator
In this class, we will view and discuss cinema from around the world, mainly focusing on the discursive essay-film. We aim to catalyze a space in which to explore under-known histories that have been archived in film, with special attention paid to postwar liberation movements, such as the Tricontinentalist and Non-alignment projects (as seen in such films as Hour of the Furances and Videograms of a Revolution). How can these films help us perform an archeology of visions of futurity? What potentialities are still available to us in these visions, and what does our relationship to them reveal? What sorts of political imaginaries can film build? What is the state of the political avant-garde in film?