Platypus in NYC with chapters at New York University and The New School
Reading Group
[2012] Intro to Platypus Reading Group
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Wednesdays @ 6:00 pm (NYU) Starting February 15, 2011 Kimmel Center, 7th floor lounge: 60 Washington Square South Contact: Pac Pobric (zpobric@gmail.com) 10 sessions of readings introducing the raison d’être of the Platypus project. (Please see the Platypus introductory readings part I before proceeding as follows.) • required / + recommended readings Essential background reading: • Leszek Kolakowski, “The Concept of [...]
History of Marxism Reading Group – Spring 2012
SATURDAYS, 1–4PM New School University New York (New School) Conference Room, 65 West 11th st. (Ground floor) SUNDAYS, 1–4PM New York University (NYU) Puck Building 295 Lafayette St. 4th floor Memorial Room I. What is the “Left?” — What is “Marxism?” • required / + recommended reading Week 12. Jan. 28–29, 2012 • Korsch, “Marxism and philosophy” (1923) + Marx, To [...]
NYC Summer 2011: Radical Bourgeois Philosophy
Rousseau | Kant | Hegel | Nietzsche | Smith | Marx Reading group and History of Humanity Film Screenings & Lectures Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution 1789–1848 [PDF] Recommended book purchasing list June 26 – August 21 New York University Puck Building 295 Lafayette St. 4th floor We will address the greater context for Marx and [...]
Introduction to revolutionary Marxism – Spring 2011
Reading group: Introduction to revolutionary Marxism Saturdays 1–4PM New York University (NYU) Puck Building 295 Lafayette St. 4th floor (classroom location TBA) • required / + recommended reading Recommended winter break readings: + Edmund Wilson, To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History (1940), Part II. Ch. (1–4,) 5–10, 12–16; [...]
Academic Year Reading Groups
Friends and Comrades – Aside from our three weekly coffee breaks (see below!), we’ll be hosting two Platypus reading groups which will serve as an introduction into the work of our organization. Focusing largely, although not exclusively, on content generated by the Platypus Review, the aim of these sessions is to provide attendees with a [...]
Platypus Reading List on Iran
Thank you to those of you who came out for yesterday’s teach-in. In light of the discussion, we thought we would share our reading list on Iran, including some of our own Platypus Review articles. David Greason, “Embracing Death: The Western Left and the Iranian Revolution 1978-83″ (2005)* Spartacist League, “Down with the Clerical Regime: [...]
Platypus Reading Group: week 11 [Saturday, 1:00pm]
Please join us for the eleventh meeting of the Platypus Reading group. We will begin with the problem of our contemporary political moment, the absence of the Left, and will continue to investigate the history of the Left over the course of the upcoming academic year in light of this problem: What has the Left [...]
Platypus Reading Group: Saturday, October 31, 1– 4pm
Please join us for the eighth meeting of the Platypus Reading group. We will begin with the problem of our contemporary political moment, the absence of the Left, and will continue to investigate the history of the Left over the course of the upcoming academic year in light of this problem: What has the Left [...]
NYC Platypus on Facebook
Because Chicago Platypus has got nuthin’ on us, and because the East coast is obviously so much better than the Mid-West! Here is our new Facebook group for NYC Chicago. New York, add us, love us, because we love NYC!
