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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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Hi,

Come by The Public School tomorrow evening from 6-9 to check out our new space:

951 Chung King Rd
Los Angeles, CA 90012


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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”

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