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

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Film Screening: The Cradle Will Rock
Film Screening: The Cradle Will Rock

The Platypus New York Chapter presents: The Cradle Will Rock (1999), a film screening and discussion Friday, December 11th, 6:00 pm-9:00 pm The New School, 66 W. 12th St., rm. 404. There will be a short discussion following the film. If you wish to attend and are not a student at the New School, please [...]

Screening: Monday, November 23, 7:30 pm @ The Brecht Forum
Screening: Monday, November 23, 7:30 pm @ The Brecht Forum

Red Channels and the Platypus Affiliated Society present: The Poverty of Student Life, a film screening and discussion Monday, November 23, 7:30 pm – 10:30 pm @ The Brecht Forum, 451 West Street San Francisco State: On Strike – Newsreel, 1969, 25 minutes Community Control – Newsreel, 1969, 50 minutes TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 75 minutes [...]

Film screening: Examined Life [ October 3rd, 7:30pm @ Union Docs ]

Film screening: Examined Life
Saturday, October 3 – 7:30pm @ Union Docs [322 Union Ave, Brooklyn NY ]
Platypus NY Chapter head, Chris Mansour, will be introducing the film. Discussion with Filmmaker and Stephen Duncombe to follow the screening.

In EXAMINED LIFE (2008, 87 minutes, Canada, DVD), filmmaker Astra Taylor accompanies some of today’s most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas.

What is Platypus?
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