Heidegger’s essay “The Origin of the Work of Art” is a one-stop guide to everything most promising and most problematic in his thought — from the linguistic construction of meaning to the relationship of human and animal, from the most abstract reflections on the disclosure of Being to a troubling fascination with national identity — all compressed into a simple pair of peasant shoes! Earth and world, world and work, form and shoe – can these relations remain the same after mechanical reproducibility, after the world market, after extinction?
Join us Thursday 27 June, 4pm, at The Map Room.
Readings available upon request to intercept at gmail.
As always, we welcome event proposals and summer accommodates many sessions. Follow us on Facebook for frequent links and commentary.
On our calendar:
June 19: V21 Collective reading group “Equality”
June 21: Marxist Literary Group
July 22: V21 Collective reading group “The State”
July 29: InterCcECT reading session “Real Abstraction”
Aug 7: InterCcECT miniseminar “Political Sentences” with special guest Jan Mieszkowski
Aug 26: V21 Collective reading group “The Planet”
Join InterCcECT for a reading session Monday 21 January, 5pm-7pm. Red Lion Pub 2446 N Lincoln (Red, Brown, Purple Lines: Fullerton).
For almost a century, “Political Theology” has named a set of inquires into the secular ideologies that legitimate power and secure social cohesion. How should these inquiries adapt to the specificity of late late capitalism, and what light can their answers shed on the superglue sustaining the preposterous contradictions of the present?
August calls us to revisit and redirect 
