Chicago, New York Saturdays 1–4PM CST School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) 112 S. Michigan Ave. room 920 Sundays 2–5PM EST New School University Eugene Lang College 65 W. 11th St. room 258 Summer 2013 Art and politics • required / + recommended reading Required preliminary reading • Chris Cutrone, “The relevance of [...]
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Platypus primary Marxist reading group Summer 2013: Late capitalism
Chicago, New York Saturdays 1–4PM CST School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) 112 S. Michigan Ave. room 920 Sundays 2–5PM EST New School University Eugene Lang College 65 W. 11th St. room 258 Summer 2013 Late capitalism • required / + recommended reading Week 1. | Jun. 22–23, 2013 • Moishe Postone, “Contemporary [...]
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Platypus primary Marxist reading group Winter–Spring 2013
II. Introduction to revolutionary Marxism Boston, Chicago, Frankfurt, Graz, London, New York, Thessaloniki, Toronto Saturdays 1–4PM CST School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) 112 S. Michigan Ave. room 920 University of Chicago (UChicago) Reynolds Club 5706 S. University Ave. 2nd floor South Lounge Chicago Platypus Facebook invitation: http://www.facebook.com/events/179540438855464/ Saturdays 2–5PM EST Harvard University [...]
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Platypus primary Marxist reading group Summer and Fall/Autumn 2012 – Winter 2013
Boston, Chicago, London, New York, Toronto Saturdays 1–4PM CST School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) 112 S. Michigan Ave. room 920 University of Chicago (UChicago) Reynolds Club 5706 S. University Ave. 2nd floor South Lounge* (* 10/6, 10/13 and 11/3 UChicago meetings in basement conference room 019) Chicago Platypus Facebook invitation: http://www.facebook.com/events/140497572752262/ Saturdays [...]
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Platypus summer 2012: Democracy and Marxism
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
The Russian Revolution, which Lenin held up as the torch-light of emancipation for the world proletariat, is being run into national socialist channels. . . . “The Russian proletariat,” said Lenin, “cannot single-handed bring the socialist revolution to a victorious conclusion. But it can give the Russian revolution a mighty impetus such as would create [...]
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Short course in Platypus
Week 1 • epigraphs on modern history and freedom by Louis Menand (on Marx and Engels) and Karl Marx, on “becoming” (from the Grundrisse, 1857–58) • Max Horkheimer, “The little man and the philosophy of freedom” (pp. 50–52 from selections from Dämmerung, 1926–31) Week 2 • Chris Cutrone, “Capital in history” (2008) + Capital in [...]
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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 [...]
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