Part 1
Reading and analysis and strategy discussion. This session took place on 12/05/06.
Part 2 - Occupy Everything! [scheduling]
A continuation of the UC Strikes and Beyond discussion. There seems to be a lot of energy for these discussions, so lets keep them going! We just scratched the surface of a discussion on what we might do collectively, so lets start there next time.
Perhaps we should do this twice more and continue the trajectory of half theory discussion and half organizing discussion...
Communiques and texts continue to pour out daily as situations unfold, such as the Irvine occupation of the library where the administration changed their policies in response to only an announcement of an occupation:
http://studentactivism.net/2009/12/04/uc-irvine-library/
Some of the issues brought up today that we should follow up on: future workshops at tent cities, the public school going on strike, critiques of the occupation strategy and other possible actions, exiting the university, the end of liberal humanism...
We still have yet to get very far with a discussion of how to branch out of the UC system.
fashion and style, the solidification of both mundane and extraordinary social performances.
A handshake, a hug, the kiss on the cheek, the kiss on the lips and the cheek.
Punk rock attitude and the clothes to match.
This class looks at theory and examples of the way in which our cultures create specific relational aesthetics based on the ways we dress.
1 class, maybe two.
Reading, intelligent discussion.
Our Tomorrow Emotions Today (collectively, with trust in trust)
The goal of this fifth class is to identify emotional hot flashes associated with collective economies of the future. The first hour of the class will consist of a guided discussion around lessons learned from collective experiences and then a design charrette with the goal of productively visualizing these flash points into working, manipulative concepts.
The first half of the class will be a guided conversation with the goal of sharing experiences of several collectives from around the LA area whose cultural or art production implicitly or explicitly aims to create new economic models (list in process).
We expect the themes at play to include stasis and change (the building of internal balance and the affect of positive growth outside from outside the collective) trust (working on trust within the collective and building trust from participants external to the collective... we're building economies here) and (for a lack of a better word) strange attractors (those pop moments and synchronic events that create massive change, and/or growth in the collective project).
(Note) This event is done in conjuntion with FOCA LA's Performing Economies exhibition curated by Elana Mann. http://www.focala.org/event_detail.php?id=284
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Suggested Readings:
Its a light reading month.
Browse the following article by Rebecca Zorach of Chicago's Feeltank collective around the emotional economies of performance.
http://joaap.org/6/another/zorach.html
We may dig into Michael Albert's Parecon
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About the series
The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest will be teaching one class a month for six months. The classes will focus on subject matter that went into our sixth issue. Classes will be held on the third Sunday of every month starting January 2008. First class was held by Robby Herbst, 2nd Act by Marc Herbst, Act 3 will be held by Christina Ulke.
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About issue 6 of the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest
In this time of political transition the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest offers a portrait of creative and critical ideas driving at the grassroots. 8 years of failed and erratic leadership underlies this new issue of the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest. In three essential acts of contemporary analysis, an
This would be a three day course based on experiencing and dissecting the interplay between boredom (understood here not to be the lack of excitment but more mundane reality), communicating what is known over lengths of time, and occassionally acting. The class would mix experiential practice (yoga and dance), reading, and conversation.
Readings may include D&G's difference and repitition, something by George Lakoff, Jason Del Gandio, and who knows, studs terkel (?????)
This class would be an experiment in the making of knowledge.