Our weekly Coffee Breaks are a great way to meet Platypus members and fellow travelers, and to get to know the Platypus project. It’s an opportunity to discuss issues raised in the latest issue of the Platypus Review, consider the state of the Left, and just hang out with people who have similar political interests.
Spring 2014 Coffee Breaks
Loyola University: Wednesdays | 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Damen Student Center, Room 123
6511 North Sheridan Road
Contact: luc@platypus1917.org
School of the Art Institute of Chicago: Thursdays | 4:30 – 5:30 pm
Cosi 116 South Michigan Avenue
Contact: saic@platypus1917.org
University of Chicago: Tuesdays | 4:30 – 5:30 pm
Harper Cafe University Hall, 601 South Morgan Street
Contact: uic@platypus1917.org
This four week reading group will examine and contextualize the history and potential future of sexual politics through an discussion of the struggle for sexual emancipation in the epoch of capitalism.
[Click on titles for PDFs of readings]Introductory Teach-in: “Is Feminism Left?”
Loyola University — Monday, February 10 @ 7 PM
Cuneo Hall | Room 203
School of the Art Institute — Tuesday, February 11th @ 5 PM
112 S Michigan Ave | Room 919
University of Illinois at Chicago — Wednesday, February 5th @ 7 PM
Student Center East | Room 610
Juliet Mitchell — “Women: The longest revolution” (1966)
Loyola University — Wednesday, February 12 @ 5:30 PM
Dumbach Hall | Room 238
School of the Art Institute — Tuesday, February 18th @ 4:30 PM
112 S Michigan Ave | Room 919
University of Illinois at Chicago — Wednesday, February 5th @ 7 PM
Student Center East | Room 610
John D’Emilio — “Capitalism and gay identity” (1983)
Loyola University — Wednesday, February 26 @ 5:30 PM
Dumbach Hall | Room 238
School of the Art Institute — Tuesday, February 25
112 S Michigan Ave | Room 919
University of Illinois at Chicago — Wednesday, February 19th @ 7 PM
Student Center East Room 610
Theodor W. Adorno — “Sexual taboos and the law today” (1963)
Loyola University — Wednesday, March 12 @ 5:30 PM
Dumbach Hall | Room 238
School of the Art Institute — Tuesday, March 11th @ 4:30 PM
112 S Michigan Ave | Room 919
University of Illinois at Chicago — Wednesday, March 5th @ 7 PM
Student Center East Room 610
Clara Zetkin and Vladimir Lenin — “An interview on the woman question” (1920)
Loyola University — Wednesday, March 26th @ 5:30 PM
Dumbach Hall | Room 238
School of the Art Institute — Tuesday, March 25th @ 4:30 PM
112 S Michigan Ave | Room 919
University of Illinois at Chicago — Wednesday, March 19th @ 7 PM
Student Center East Room 610
Taking advantage of the January break in our primary reading group schedule, we will hold a discussion of the recent Hannah Arendt biopic by the German New Wave director Margarethe von Trotta.
Saturday, January 18 from 1-4 PM
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
112 S. Michigan Ave
Room 920
Readings for discussion of the film:
* priority readings
* Hannah Arendt (2013) film DVD insert
* Hannah Arendt, Prologue to The Human Condition (Vita Activa) (1958)
* Martin Heidegger, “Only a god can still save us,” interview with Der Spiegel (1966)
Walter Benjamin, “To the planetarium,” One-Way Street (1928)
Theodor W. Adorno, “Reflections on class theory” (1942)
* Alan Ryan, “Dangerous Liaisons,” book review of Elzbieta Ettinger, Arendt and Heidegger (1996)
* Michael A. Musmanno, “Man with an unspotted conscience,” original New York Times book review of Arendt’sEichmann in Jerusalem(1963)
* Norman Podhoretz, “The perversity of brilliance” (contra Arendt on Eichmann) (1963)
* Max Horkheimer, "On the capture of Eichmann"
Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963)
