Comments on: Book Suggestions

By: mike d

mike d — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 01:46:00 +0000

(reply to nymaa-reading list serve post)

i have been wanting to attend this reading group since it started but end up working every time. sunday afternoons would work for me.

and if you can get david g or sylvia f to come ask them to provide some background materials to distribute so we can discuss what they’ve been working on and want to discuss. i just read an essay by dg
http://www.metamute.org/en/content/debt_the_first_five_thousand_years
about historical cycles between credit and cash based economies and sf has this discussion of the idea of precarious work:
http://auto_sol.tao.ca/node/3074

By: lauren

lauren — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:33:25 +0000

i’d love to read, in a group:

caliban and the witch: women, the body and primitive accumulation
by, sylvia federici

http://www.akpress.org/2004/items/calibanandthewitch

By: steve

steve — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:32:37 +0000

Richard Kempton- “PROVO: Amersterdam’s Anarchist Revolt “

By: wakeupanddream

wakeupanddream — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:45:07 +0000

Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 21:29:52 +0000

Barbara Epstein- Political Protest and Cultural Revolution: Nonviolent Direct Action in the 1970s and 1980s

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 03:14:18 +0000

This seems like a good book to start of with: Rudolf Rocker-Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice! I Also like the idea of reading 48 laws of power too! Maybe the ideas in that book can be spun to help anarchists , but if not it may help us realize how easliy we are manipulated and give some ideas on how to change it?

By: steve

steve — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:19:13 +0000

“Dream: Re-imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy” by Stephen Duncombe

“Woman on the Edge of Time” by Marge Piercy
anarcha-feminist utopian novel

By: N

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:46:15 +0000

I’ve been reading the books for the past couple of months but haven’t been able to attend. I would love to have the opportunity to discuss “Infinitely Demanding” by Simon Critchley. It may be a challenging work in some respects but definitely worth it. Also:

Anarchy Alive by Uri Gordon
The Fiction of a Thinkable World by Michael Steinberg
The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord (if it hasn’t been discussed already)

I hope to come next time.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:06:45 +0000

Infinitely Demanding. Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance by Simon Critchley

(sorry if has already been read)

By: wakeupanddream

wakeupanddream — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 12:45:27 +0000

some suggestions from last month’s meeting:

Machiavelli- The Prince
Robert Greene– 48 Laws of Power (This is a bestseller about the sleazy arts of domination, manipulation, and exploitation– might be interesting to read this or The Prince in reverse, as a sort of lesson in anti-power, and as a springboard for discussion about breaking down and defending against these forms of domination in our lives and organizations…