All-Bloomington Reading Group

Friday, April 20, 8:30pm

Wendell Berry, “In Distrust of Movements”

http://thegreenhorns.wordpress.com/essays/essay-in-distrust-of-movements-by-wendell-berry/

Wolfgang Streeck, “The Crises of Democratic Capitalism”

http://www.newleftreview.org/?view=2914

Friday, April 6, 8:30pm

Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire Of Louis Bonaparte, chapter 5 http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/ch05.htm

Eldridge Cleaver, “On Lumpen Ideology” http://www.anarchistpanther.net/others/other8.html

Franz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, “Grandeur and Weakness of Spontaneity” http://www.mediafire.com/?ty2umyyoly3

Also, “The Undesirables” by anonymous.

http://theanarchistlibrary.org/HTML/Anonymous__The_Undesirables.html

Friday, March 30 8:30pm

Michael Denning, “Wageless Life” in the New Left Review 66 (2010). 

Standing, “The Precariat and Basic Income”

http://ec.europa.eu/italia/documents/news/ue_e_societa_civile/forum_poverta_napoli_-_guy_standing.pdf 

Standing, “The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class”

Friday February 17 Reading

Graeber, Debt (last day)

AND

http://nplusonemag.com/raise-the-crime-rate

AND

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2012/01/30/120130crat_atlarge_gopnik

8:30pm, IMU

The debate that exploded the internet: Graeber versus Hedges on Black Bloc.

Meeting 3 supplementary reading

Jeffrey J. Williams, “Academic Freedom and Indentured Students”

http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/academe/2012/JF/Feat/will.htm

Meeting #3

We’re reading through chapter 6 of Graeber’s Debt for February 3. Same time, same place.

Meeting 2

David Graeber, Debt: The First Five Thousand Years (chapters 1-2, more if you’d like).

Friday, January 27, 8:30pm in the Union.

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