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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
Messianic Time
This Saturday at The Public School:
The aim of these classes is to get an insight into the messianic, but most of all, to discuss the relevance of the term today. Why is there a comeback with regards to the discussion of religion/religions today? What is the legacy of Christianity or its strange alliance with other religions?
1) Please read Walter Benjamin’s “Theses on the Philosophy of History” and find all relevant citations on Messianic. Benjamin’s text is going to serve as a “backdrop” if we can imagine it so, to all that will follow, so it is good if we always keep his basic concepts in mind.
2) Eduardo Cadava’s essay gives a good insight to Benjamin’s “Jeztzeit” or “now-time”
We will discuss relationships between non-linear time, photographic time and the time of tele-technics (see Derrida Faith and Knowledge, p. 48-55)
3) Reading Agamben, The time that remains, Chapter 1& particularly 4:
Why does Agamben chose the term Messiah as opposed to Jesus (Iesous)
4) Also see the Appendix, Letter to the Romans, translation: St. Paul’s text is widely available in the Bible, as it forms part of the New Testament.
We are briefly going to discuss the figure of St. Paul and the overall structure of the Letter. Consider the term Apostle Paul instead of Saint Paul.
5) History/prophecy: why messiah instead of prophet. Who can be a prophet today? What are the terms of historicity :
Particularly Derrida, Faith and Knowledge, p. 55 ” there where a certain concept of history itself becomes innappropriate” …let us refer first to the “messianic” and to “chora”