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I had forgotten that we (Sean Dockray, Jason Smith and Matteo Pasquinelli) published an edited version of the text we presented at UCIRA’s “Future Tense: Alternative Arts and Economies in the University” conference held in San Diego, California on November 18, 2010 in the first issue of …ment.

I was reminded because …ment is doing an event this Wednesday, the 29th of June, in Neuköln that looks great.

Here is a link to their first issue.

Here is info about our contribution:

There is Nothing Less Passive than the Act of Fleeing
What follows is a condensed and edited version of a text for a panel that was presented at UCIRA’s “Future Tense: Alternative Arts and Economies in the University” conference held in San Diego, California on November 18, 2010. The panel shared the same name as a 13-day itinerant seminar in Berlin organized by Dockray, Waldorf, and Fiona Whitton earlier that year, in July. The seminar began with an excerpt from Tiqqun’s Introduction to Civil War, which was co-translated into English by Smith; and later read a chapter from Pasquinelli’s Animal Spirits: A Bestiary of the Commons. Both authors have also participated in meetings at The Public School in Los Angeles and Berlin.Both the panel and the seminar developed out of longer conversations at The Public School in Los Angeles, which began in late 2007 under Telic Arts Exchange. The Public School is a school with no curriculum, where classes are proposed and organized by the public.

The text is available here.

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Heading to Berlin in a week. Looking forward to all of this:

Computational Design Strategies taught by Chandler McWilliams and Naoko Miyano
Soviet Cinema facilitated by Dennis
Independence Day facilitated by me?
Situationist Jogging ran by Fabagit
Hegel, by way of Marx facilitated by Aaron
Flusser Lesegruppe facilitated by Claudia Becker, Rodrigo Maltez-Novaes (both of the Flusser Archive) and Paul Feigelfeld

 

 

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Just returned from Medellín, where The Public School will be participating in MDE11 in the Fall. Here are some pics…more soon about our project…

Biblioteca de espana, Santo Domingo - 33
Platohedro - 1
The Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín - 19 Centro Cultural Moravia. Medellín. - 14
NODO. Moravia, Medellín - 01
The Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín - 31

More photos can be found here.

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We (Cara Baldwin, Ken Ehrlich, Michael Wilson) recently relaunched Occupy Everything and held a session at TPS to inaugurate the event as part of the Practicalities of Revolt class (with Ken, Michael and myself). The initial goal for the redesign was simply to make the site more legible and easy to navigate. The other ideas were to develop an open-editorial system (think the TPS methodology, but replace classes with texts) and to develop a resource section of the website. The open-editorial system is forthcoming, but we did develop and initial framework for comrades to upload resources and save them to their own lists. This is still very raw at the moment, but sometime soon will become a bit more robust to work with.

Stay tuned.

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We are excited to announce the opening of THE PUBLIC SCHOOL BERLIN. On 18 September at 19:00 we will hold an event at Program called The Future of THE PUBLIC SCHOOL BERLIN.

Earlier this summer THE PUBLIC SCHOOL organized a 13-day seminar in Berlin, There is nothing less passive than the act of fleeing… The seminar, meeting each day at a different location in Berlin, took the form of an open reading group, where the texts discussed each day resonated with the site selected. Please visit the project web site for more information on our activities and discussion topics: http://thepublicschool.org/thereisnothinglesspassive/thantheactoffleeing.html

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THE PUBLIC SCHOOL is a school with no curriculum. At the moment, it operates as follows: first, classes are proposed by the public (I want to learn this or I want to teach this); then, people have the opportunity to sign up for the classes (I also want to learn that); finally, when enough people have expressed interest, the school finds a facilitator and offers the class to those who signed up.

THE PUBLIC SCHOOL is not accredited, it does not give out degrees, and it has no affiliation with the public school system. It is a framework that supports autodidactic activities, operating under the assumption that everything is in everything.

THE PUBLIC SCHOOL was started in 2007 in Los Angeles by Telic Arts Exchange.

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There will be several things that take place at The Future of THE PUBLIC SCHOOL BERLIN:

1. A committee member of the THE PUBLIC SCHOOL LOS ANGELES will briefly discuss its history and how it operates.

2. We will have a discussion about how the school could work here and what shape(s) it could take.

3. We will create class proposals.

4. We will talk some more!

Please join us to find out more about the school and find ways that you can participate, including joining the committee (D.A.N.) to help run the school here.

If you have questions please get in touch. Also, please sign up for an account here and afterwards try proposing some classes. To see the activities happening at the other schools, please visit here.

Look forward to seeing you all this weekend!

WHAT: The Future of THE PUBLIC SCHOOL BERLIN
WHERE: PROGRAM, Invalidenstrasse 115
WHEN: 18 SEPTEMBER 19:00 HR


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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,PhiladelphiaNew YorkBrusselsParisSan JuanHelsinki)

Organized by Sean Dockray, Caleb Waldorf and Fiona Whitton

Here for more…

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