Filed under: Milwaukee area, update | Tags: agamben, anarchy, barbarians, bleu marin, carl schmitt, CCC, civil war, clastres, communism, critical animal studies, critical theory, Deleuze and Guattari, derrida, discussion, negativity, nihilism, theory, tiqqun, violence, war
Weaving two seemingly divergent themes together through various conceptions of sovereignty, October will focus on the relationship and subsequent separation between humans and animals through the lens of domestication and civilization, while November will focus on questions of conflict – both as the fabric that maintains the present and the force that may tear it asunder.
1pm on Saturdays at the CCC (732 E Clarke St.)
October: Critical Animal Studies
2nd ‘The Snake’ by D.H. Lawrence (plain text)
9th ‘The Animal That Therefore I Am’ by Jacques Derrida (book)
16th ‘The Open’ by Giorgio Agamben (book)
23rd ‘On Behalf of the Barbarians’ by Bleu Marin (zine)
November: War, Violence and Enmity
6th ‘Theory of the Partisan’ by Carl Schmitt (zine)
13th ‘Introduction to Civil War’ by Tiqqun (book) zine version
20th ‘Nomadology: The War-Machine’ By D & G (zine)
27th ‘Archeology of Violence’ by Pierre Clastres (book)
This series is perhaps considerably less introductory than previous anarchist oriented and theory discussion series that we’ve attempted, though anyone who is interested is certainly welcome to participate. Most of the texts will be available for free to pick up beforehand from the CCC or can be found online to download (and linked to from this post and if made into zines will be added to the zine archive).
Many of the texts can be found here
Filed under: Milwaukee area | Tags: anarchy, books, CCC, discussion, fiction, milwaukee, riverwest
The discussion group formally known as the Summer Theory Discussion is taking a break to read some fiction.
All discussions are at 1pm at the CCC on Sundays.
Here are the dates and readings:
6th: ‘Giovanni’s Room’ by James Baldwin
13th: ‘By Night In Chile’ By Roberto Bolano
20th: ‘Invisible Cities’ by Italo Calvino
27th: ‘The Passion’ by Jeanette Winterson
(regretfully none of these readings are available for free online or at the CCC, but can be found most likely at a library)
Filed under: Milwaukee area | Tags: anarchist, CCC, discussion, milwaukee, new school, occupations, occupy everything, theory
The theme for this month coincides with a mounting wave of occupations and conflict about to hit California, New York and other areas.
2pm Sundays at the CCC (732 E Clarke St.)
Mar. 7th – Pick ax (movie screening)
Mar. 14th – The New School Occupation and Pre-occupied: the Logic of Occupation
Mar. 21th – 20 Thesis on the Subversion of the Metropolis
Mar. 28th – Nights of Rage (only available at the CCC)
Physical copies of the texts are available at the CCC for free.
(more supplementary readings will be posted soon, as well as updates on the developing situation regarding the occupations)
Filed under: Milwaukee area, update | Tags: CCC, communization, discussion, french, milwaukee, reading, supplementary, texts, the imaginary party, the invisible committee, tiqqun
Especially with these ideas it can be very helpful to have a more thorough preliminary reading of texts which have influenced the Invisible Committee / TIQQUN / the Imaginary Party and other things they’ve written. Introduction to Civil War is coming out in a few weeks, so maybe it’s a bit silly to have this on the list, but since it came out before Call or The Coming Insurrection it should hopefully offer some further insight into and give a more rounded understanding of the ideas. Some other good places to focus on as a start would be: Foucault’s History of Sexuality volume 1: the Introduction, The Coming Community (of which the title of TCI references) and Other texts by Giorgio Agamben.
If people have other suggestions please share them. Texts that specifically deal theoretically with communization would be helpful. The first issue of Endnotes is a good place to start for a general understanding of the idea and history, but this isn’t exactly the same place that the Invisible Committee is coming from.
Supplementary Readings:
–The Coming Insurrection by The Invisible Committee (book)
–Introduction to Civil War by TIQQUN (book)
–Invisible Politics: An Introduction to Contemporary Communization by John Cunningham
–Human Strike After Human Strike by Johann Kaspar (from Occupied London #4)
–Bring Out Your Dead by the Endnotes Collective
Filed under: Milwaukee area, update | Tags: anarchist, anarchy, armed struggle, autonomia, berlusconi, CCC, class, class struggle, communism, discussion, flier, insurrectionary, italy, milwaukee
January – Italian Insurrectionary
Jan. 3rd – Against Domestication
Jan. 10th – Armed Struggle in Italy and Armed Joy
Jan. 17th – More, Much More
Jan. 24th – The Undesirables
Jan. 31st – The Insurrectional Project
What is now described as insurrectionary anarchism largely developed as a response to an intense period of autonomous class conflict and clandestine armed struggle against the state and capitalism in the 1960s and 70s, and their subsequent repression and failures. This produced a questioning and rethinking of forms of organization, forms of struggle, etc, and also a theoretical and lived pratice of insurrectionary means.
Filed under: Milwaukee area | Tags: AAA, anarchy, anti-authoritarians anonymous, cell phones, discussion, Greece, I phone, milwaukee, resistance, resitance, social networking, technology, UWM
From the event description:
“Technologies of Resistance, a lecture and discussion on the ways social networking technology is being used by social uprisings and the surveillance opportunities such technology provides for the state.”
The event should be taking as an example the social uprising in Greece last December.
(look closely at the icons on the phone)
Filed under: Milwaukee area, update | Tags: 2pm, 732 e clarke st, anarchist, anarchy, anti-civ, CCC, civ, civilization, cream city collectives, desire, discussion, path, perlman, reading, what's the deal?, wisdom, wu ming
Filed under: Milwaukee area | Tags: 732, anarchist, anti-civ, CCC, commune-ism, communes, communism, discussion, french, IEF style, insurrectionary, italian, lines, milwaukee, money, the coming insurrection, winter
(This is a bit of a copy of the flier Liam made for the Social Justice or Social War event, but was made just to screw around with design)
Filed under: Milwaukee area, update | Tags: 732, anarchist, anarchy, at daggers drawn, communism, cream city collectives, discussion, earth first means social war, milwaukee, riverwest, study, sundays, winter, work community politics war
A clandestine hoard of miscreants and nerds is excited to announce the return of an anarchist discussion group, just in time for winter. As the frigid specter approaches, we recommend keeping warm with cozy anarchist literature, heated discussions of theory and praxis and copious amounts of tea. Each month until spring corresponds to a particular topic for discussion. With each approaching month, a more specific weekly schedule will be announced and all relevant texts will be made available at the Cream City Collectives and through the Burnt Bookmobile. November will begin as an exploration of hell-on-earth and some potential ways out. Discussions will be informed by the specified readings – thus reading the texts is encouraged (and fun), but not necessary. Everyone is welcome!
November – some fundamentals
Nov 8 – Work Community Politics War
A graphic guide to the banality of life in capitalist hell and constituting conflict willfully against it.
Nov 15 – The Reproduction of Daily Life
If you don’t have time to read Marx’s Capital, read this in only half an hour.
Nov 22 – At Daggers Drawn
You may have been wondering about what all this insurrectionary magnetic poetry floating around is all about…
Nov 29 – Earth First! Means Social War
This zine has been clinically proven to dispel all myths regarding green capitalism (formerly known as ethical consumerism).
All zines will be available on this website to download and print out.
Burnt Bookmobile 