A way of looking back at the occupations…

June 17, 2013 § Leave a Comment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next Sunday, June 23, we’ll be discussing some of the texts that use communization language before and during Occupy:

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1.Communique from an Absent Future  (or various reading and printing options )

2. We Are the Crisis

3. What Are We to Do? (Endnotes, in Communization and its Discotheques)

4. The Coming Occupation (Joshua Clover, in We Are Many)

Recent Anarchist Theory: A Two-Day Miniconference

June 10, 2013 § Leave a Comment

Conference

Austin Anarchist Study Group presents:
A Two-Day mini conference on Recent Anarchist Theory!

Each day will feature two informal talks followed by questions and discussion.
Relevant literature will be available via 1882 Distro.

The talks will begin at 7pm sharp.
MonkeyWrench Books
110 E. North Loop 78751

Day 1: Saturday, June 29th

  • On Questions and Answers: Some Thoughts on How to Do Ideas
  • Tent City, Tent Tent City: Houselessness and Confrontation in Austin, TX
  • Liquidating Existence: Identity, Violence, and the Future

Day 2: Saturday, July 6th

  • Tiqqun’s New Names for Alienation: Bloom and Young-Girl
  • False Community and the Trap of Procedure: Exploring Critiques of the Accountability Process

Click here for Facebook event. Please share/invite friends.

Gender Anarky

June 10, 2013 § Leave a Comment

The readings for next week’s meeting, 16 June,  are the selected writings of Gender Anarky, a small collective of queer anarchists in prison.

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An imposed version of the zine can be found here: 
http://zinelibrary.info/files/genderanarkyzineupdate_imposed.pdf
.  Also see their website, 
http://genderanarky.wordpress.com/
, which contains more pieces for discussion.

The Book Fair Is This Weekend!

June 4, 2013 § Leave a Comment

Austin Anarchist Micro Book Fair

Join us for the second Austin Anarchist Micro Book Fair!

Share the Facebook Event:

http://www.facebook.com/events/117407418463157/

More Info:

http://amicrobookfair.wordpress.com

Toward the Queerest Insurrection

June 3, 2013 § Leave a Comment

Next Sunday, 9 June, we’ll be discussing “Towards the Queerest Insurrection”
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pdf for online reading: 
http://zinelibrary.info/files/Queerest%20Final_0.pdf

Various formats: 
http://archive.org/details/TowardTheQueerestInsurrection

Reminder… this a short but sweet reading because we’ll be giving away copies at the micro book fair the day before, in hopes of attracting folks to the study group. So you could also wait til Saturday night and grab a copy to take home and read in bed.

Queer Potpourri

May 27, 2013 § Leave a Comment

Sunday, June 2, we’ll continue the month of queer anarchist selections by reading recently published writings by some troublemakers…

610px-Bosch,_Hieronymus_-_The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights,_right_panel_-_Detail_Bird-headed_monster_or_The_Prince_of_Hell_-_close-up_head_(lower_right)Preliminary Notes on Modes of Reproduction by gender mutiny (pp. 26-32)

Bash Back is Dead, Bash Back Forever by Teagan Eanelli

(these two also in Queer Ultraviolence)

Identity in Crisis (from Baedan)

The Screwball Asses

May 20, 2013 § Leave a Comment

Sunday, May 26, for the first of four meetings to discuss queer anarchist theory,we’ll be reading The Screwball Asses by Guy Hocquenghem.

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Text is here:


https://anonfiles.com/file/5fd2b98c668418d509f174b271ecba52

Some info:

http://semiotexte.com/?page_id=54

A review with some insights and some gossip:

http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2011/thorstad210411.html

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