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TPS Berlin Mailing List
We have setup a mailing list for “There is nothing less passive than the act of fleeing.” Click here to signup.
This is a discussion list for The Public School project, “There is nothing less passive than the act of fleeing.”
** What this list is for **
1. We will post any last minute details for or changes to meeting places here.
2. It will be the place for any follow-up discussion and some kind of daily summary.
3. A place where anyone else anywhere (including people at various Public Schools who are reading along or running parallel sessions) to participate as much as you want to – send responses, questions, provocations, photos, demands, etc.
Although it is entirely possible that this list will be a wasteland, with one message every day explaining exactly where to go and at what time, it is equally likely that the list will be hyper-active, bombarding your email inbox for the next several weeks. That will be part of the fun. When the project is over this list will be closed.
To send a message to everyone on the list, you can reply directly to this message or just send an email to fleeing@thepublicschool.org. If someone wants to be added to this discussion list, then just send us their address.
** What’s next **
-We are meeting this Sunday, 4 July at INSEL DER JUGEND IN TREPTOWER PARK. We will meet at 17:00 at the bridge and cross it together over to the island. Here is a link on the google map for the events: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=111162172991000092690.0004882558b261f0fd61d&ll=52.503266,13.40435&spn=0.134796,0.301437&z=12&iwloc=000489d578c05f9d5c020
-The readers are in Germany, but have not yet arrived, and may not before Sunday. Our first text is INTRODUCTION TO CIVIL WAR (sections 3 and four) by TIQQUN. It can be found here: http://aaaaarg.org/node/14607/download
or here: http://www.mediafire.com/?gnzwvgmu2ig
We will let you know when the readers arrive and where they can be picked up.
-Finally, in case you haven’t gone to the project web page recently, we’ve updated the locations and the google map: http://thepublicschool.org/thereisnothinglesspassive/thantheactoffleeing.html
Look forward to seeing and/or hearing from you!
Sean, Caleb, Fiona
Tags Berlin, Class, education, map, occupation, performance, reading, seminar, The Public School, workshops
Tags Class, education, exodus, Insurrection, neo-liberalism, occupation, reading, resistance, Revolution, seminar, The Public School, war
There is nothing less passive than the act of fleeing…
Deadlock: perpetual war, failing economies, the crumbling of education, capitalist realism, our environment in ruin, hostility everywhere.
Resistance? Confrontation? Insurrection?
Exodus: silence, autonomy, occupation, withdrawl, invisibility, friendship.
The Public School is organizing a 13-day seminar, meeting each day at a different location in Berlin. This seminar takes the form of an open reading group, where the texts discussed each day resonate with the site selected. On 18 July The Public School and The Office will host an event to be held at Salon Populaire. The day will unfold as a series of participatory conversations and workshops.
Please join us in Berlin or at The Public School to sketch, scheme and build new imaginaries. (Los Angeles,Philadelphia, New York, Brussels, Paris, San Juan, Helsinki)
Organized by Sean Dockray, Caleb Waldorf and Fiona Whitton
Tags Class, cultural capital, pedagogy, pragmatism, The Public School
This weekend at The Public School
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Tags "Radical", Class, Insurrection, Revolution, The Public School
The Coming Insurrection
Tomorrow The Public School will be offering a one day course on The Coming Insurrection, taught by Jason Smith, one of the translators and editors of the english edition. Please come if you can!
About the book:
The Coming Insurrection is an eloquent call to arms arising from the recent waves of social contestation in France and Europe. Written by the anonymous Invisible Committee in the vein of Guy Debord—and with comparable elegance—it has been proclaimed a manual for terrorism by the French government (who recently arrested its alleged authors). One of its members more adequately described the group as “the name given to a collective voice bent on denouncing contemporary cynicism and reality.” The Coming Insurrection is a strategic prescription for an emergent war-machine to “spread anarchy and live communism.”?Written in the wake of the riots that erupted throughout the Paris suburbs in the fall of 2005 and presaging more recent riots and general strikes in France and Greece, The Coming Insurrection articulates a rejection of the official Left and its reformist agenda, aligning itself instead with the younger, wilder forms of resistance that have emerged in Europe around recent struggles against immigration control and the “war on terror.”?Hot-wired to the movement of ‘77 in Italy, its preferred historical reference point, The Coming Insurrection formulates an ethics that takes as its starting point theft, sabotage, the refusal to work, and the elaboration of collective, self-organized forms-of-life. It is a philosophical statement that addresses the growing number of those—in France, in the United States, and elsewhere—who refuse the idea that theory, politics, and life are separate realms.