Platypus in NYC with chapters at New York University and The New School

Platypus in NYC
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 been, and what could it yet become? Meetings will be held every Saturday, from 1-4pm, at the New School. All are welcome.

WEEK 11: Saturday, November 21, 2009 @ 1:00pm

LOCATION: The New School 6 E. 16th St. rm 1008 New York, New York

“The realm of freedom is neither the voluntary submission to necessity, understanding its ‘laws’ in order to regulate it, nor its tempted voluntaristic subjugation. It is the possibility made available by the mass recognition beyond a given historical point of the temporalilty, the no-longer-necessity, of historical necessity.” (Postone)

• Martin Nicolaus, “The Unknown Marx” (1968)
• Postone, “Necessity, Labor, and Time” (1978)

Find the entire year’s syllabus here.

The Platypus Affiliated Society organizes reading groups, public fora, research, and journalism focused on problems and tasks inherited from the “Old” (1920s-30s), “New” (1960s-70s) and post-political (1980s-90s) Left, for the possibilities of emancipatory politics today.

http://platypus1917.org/

November 18, 2009 | Filed under Reading Group.

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The Platypus Affiliated Society, established in December 2006, organizes reading groups, public fora, research and journalism focused on problems and tasks inherited from the “Old” (1920s-30s), “New” (1960s-70s) and post-political (1980s-90s) Left for the possibilities of emancipatory politics today
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