Category Archives: Reading Groups

After a too long interval powered by too good things, InterCcECT reconvenes! Chicago winter has hardly transpired – one of many burning signs that we’re already living the unevenly distributed collapse of the ecosphere. What does the Marxan corpus uniquely offer to the explosion of ecotheory in para- or non-marxist idioms in recent years? Find out with Kohei Saito’s Marx in the Anthropocene! We’ll read the intro and chapter one (and optionally the rest of part one) for Thursday 30 March, 4pm, Map Room.

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Often the simplest questions are the most theoretically fruitful. Alenka Zupančič’s What is Sex? works as both an introduction to psychoanalysis and an expert tour of its distance from competing (anti)philosophies. Join us for a special reading session led by Lakshmi Padmanabhan, on the new school holiday 8 November. We’ll read the intro, chapter 1, and chapter 4, and meet at 4pm at The Red Lion (Red Line: Fullerton).

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How do we get out of this place? Why is geography the home discipline for one of the most powerful theorists of abolition? What do we build instead? Join us to discuss Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s new essay collection Abolition Geography. We’ll read the editor’s intro and chapter 1, and aspire to chapter 2.

Thursday 4 August

4pm

Moody’s Pub (Red Line: Thorndale)

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Also mark your calendars now for an event with special guest Alex Galloway, Tuesday 27 September!

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Successive viral waves, unrelenting loss, and the cumulative strain of semester 5 at Pandemic University have discombobulated InterCcECT too much in recent months, but it is now time to resuscitate! The authoritarian surge warrants more fighting, and also some more thinking. Join us for a discussion of Lauren Berlant’s *America, “Fat,” The Fetus* and all things bodily, genderly, nationcraftly – and mourningly. We’ll meet Monday 13 June, 4pm, outdoors at Pilot Project (Blue Line: Western). And fire up your summer reading lists, as we’ll be making plans for many future sessions.

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It seems the circumstances might allow us to reconvene in person! And what better way to honor haptic social idea-making than readings in wild thought, reason unbound, conceptuality on the move? University of Chicago press just put out a new translation of Claude Levi-Strauss’s La Pensée Sauvage, the magisterial study of intellection outside disciplines and beyond the west-east divide. We’ll read the first chapter, “The Science of the Concrete,” see if anybody remembers how to do a reading group, and air desires for collective summer endeavors with this or other works.

Join us for Wild Thought Thursday 27 May, 4pm. Since venues are operating with constraints about groups, we’ll meet at our Bucktown salon, outdoors among the wildflowers. Contact us for the reading and address.

We continue with Rose for next time. Chapter 4 “The Division of Labor and Illusion,” meeting Weds 30 Dec, 4pm CST.

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Continuing our march through Rose, chapter 3 this time. Weds 16 Dec, 4pm CST.

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Though Anthony Giddens is dubious, we’ll continue with Gillian Rose’s Hegel Contra Sociology (chapter 2) Thursday 10 December, 4pm CST.

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