Chicago Saturdays 1–4PM School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) 112 S. Michigan Ave. room 920 Facebook invitation: http://www.facebook.com/events/339098822822962/ • required / + recommended reading Film screening: May 2012 • Last Party 2000 (2001) Week 1. May 26, 2012 Marx and democracy • Dick Howard, selections from The Specter of Democracy (2002) + Howard, [...]
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Platypus summer 2012: Trotsky and Trotskyism
Boston, Chicago, Halifax, New York, Philadelphia, and Toronto Saturdays 1–4PM School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) 112 S. Michigan Ave. room 920 2–5PM New School University New York (New School) Lang Café, Eugene Lang Building 65 W. 11th St. ground floor (enter at 66 W. 12th St.) conference room New York University (NYU) [...]
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Platypus primary Marxist reading group Winter–Spring 2012
II. Introduction to revolutionary Marxism Chicago, Frankfurt, London, New York, and Thessaloniki Saturdays 1–4PM School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) 112 S. Michigan Ave. room 920 New School University New York (New School) Lang Café, Eugene Lang Building 65 W. 11th St. ground floor (enter at 66 W. 12th St.) University of Chicago [...]
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Platypus history of Marxism readings Fall/Autumn 2011 – Winter 2012 syllabus
I. What is the “Left?” — What is “Marxism?” Chicago (School of the Art Institute of Chicago and University of Chicago) and New York City (New School University and New York University) Chicago Facebook invitation: http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=186447294761195 Saturdays 1–4PM Starting Sat. Sept. 10: School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) 112 S. Michigan Ave. room [...]
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Platypus summer 2011: Radical bourgeois philosophy
Platypus Marxist reading group June 25 – August 21 Saturdays 1–4PM at: School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) 112 S. Michigan Ave. room 920 Sundays 1–4PM at: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 77 Massachusetts Ave., Bldg. 5 room 232 Cambridge Center City Philadelphia Good Karma Cafe 928 Pine St. (between 9th and 10th [...]
April 23rd, 2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Platypus introductory readings II
A second series of 10 sessions introducing the raison d’être of the Platypus project.
January 16th, 2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Platypus primary Marxist reading group Winter–Spring 2011
II. Introduction to revolutionary Marxism Saturdays 1–4PM School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) 112 S. Michigan Ave. room 920 University of Chicago (UChicago) The Reynolds Club 2nd floor South Lounge 5706 S. University Ave. New York University (NYU) Puck Building 295 Lafayette St. 4th floor Memorial Room • required / + recommended reading [...]
December 9th, 2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Platypus primary Marxist reading group Fall/Autumn 2010 – Winter 2011
I. What is the “Left?” — What is “Marxism?” Saturdays 1–4PM School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) 112 S. Michigan Ave. room 920 University of Chicago (UChicago) The Reynolds Club 2nd floor South Lounge 5706 S. University Ave. • required / + recommended reading A. Sept. 11, 2010 (SAIC only) • Moishe Postone, [...]
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Platypus NYC summer 2010: Marx and Marxism
Platypus Marxist reading group June 13 – August 22, 2010 Sundays 1–4PM at: New School University 25 E. 13th St. room 502 Please e-mail Pac Pobric at zpobric@gmail.com with any questions. Marx and Marxism Marx and Engels at work together Readings pp. from Robert C. Tucker, ed., Marx-Engels Reader (Norton 2nd ed., 1978) (* at [...]
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