Fridays As In Murder: Women, Violence & Genre Formulas
Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue, BrooklynDrawing upon the potentials of film noir’s formula of restlessness, dread, and discontent within social corruption, women novelists wrote of threats to the domestic sphere and American society emerging as the global hegemon. Women writers explored crime and violence resulting from the racism and class exploitation while some male authors began writing of more complicated women.
Fridays As In Murder: Women, Violence & Genre Formulas
Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue, BrooklynDrawing upon the potentials of film noir’s formula of restlessness, dread, and discontent within social corruption, women novelists wrote of threats to the domestic sphere and American society emerging as the global hegemon. Women writers explored crime and violence resulting from the racism and class exploitation while some male authors began writing of more complicated women.
Fridays As In Murder: Women, Violence & Genre Formulas
Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue, BrooklynDrawing upon the potentials of film noir’s formula of restlessness, dread, and discontent within social corruption, women novelists wrote of threats to the domestic sphere and American society emerging as the global hegemon. Women writers explored crime and violence resulting from the racism and class exploitation while some male authors began writing of more complicated women.
Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYFrom the book: “...a potential tendency for capital in searching to maximise its monetary profit to be drawn to invest in areas that produce no value or surplus value at all. Taken to extremes, either of these tendencies could be fatal to the reproduction of capital. In combination, and the contemporary evidence is that both trends are discernible, they could be catastrophic” (Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason, David Harvey, Oxford University Press, p.105).
Fridays As In Murder: Women, Violence & Genre Formulas
Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue, BrooklynDrawing upon the potentials of film noir’s formula of restlessness, dread, and discontent within social corruption, women novelists wrote of threats to the domestic sphere and American society emerging as the global hegemon. Women writers explored crime and violence resulting from the racism and class exploitation while some male authors began writing of more complicated women.
Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYFrom the book: “...a potential tendency for capital in searching to maximise its monetary profit to be drawn to invest in areas that produce no value or surplus value at all. Taken to extremes, either of these tendencies could be fatal to the reproduction of capital. In combination, and the contemporary evidence is that both trends are discernible, they could be catastrophic” (Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason, David Harvey, Oxford University Press, p.105).
Fridays As In Murder: Women, Violence & Genre Formulas
Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue, BrooklynDrawing upon the potentials of film noir’s formula of restlessness, dread, and discontent within social corruption, women novelists wrote of threats to the domestic sphere and American society emerging as the global hegemon. Women writers explored crime and violence resulting from the racism and class exploitation while some male authors began writing of more complicated women.
Fridays As In Murder: Women, Violence & Genre Formulas
Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue, BrooklynDrawing upon the potentials of film noir’s formula of restlessness, dread, and discontent within social corruption, women novelists wrote of threats to the domestic sphere and American society emerging as the global hegemon. Women writers explored crime and violence resulting from the racism and class exploitation while some male authors began writing of more complicated women.
A People’s History of the World
Orchard Street, Newark, NJ classroom Orchard Street, Newark, NJ, United StatesConvened by Branden Rippey Downtown Newark on Orchard Street Using A People’s History of the World by Chris Harman, this course will study the broad trends in the history of our world, from early human civilization to today. We will complete the book during this term, covering events from 1750 through our present day. The ... Read more
Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYFrom the book: “...a potential tendency for capital in searching to maximise its monetary profit to be drawn to invest in areas that produce no value or surplus value at all. Taken to extremes, either of these tendencies could be fatal to the reproduction of capital. In combination, and the contemporary evidence is that both trends are discernible, they could be catastrophic” (Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason, David Harvey, Oxford University Press, p.105).
Architecture of Doom
Jefferson Market Library 425 6th Avenue, New York, NYFree Film showing of Architecture of Doom at the Jefferson Market Library in Greenwich Village Architecture of Doom 119 minutes, color and b/w, 1991 MEP in Libraries Jefferson Market Library in the Village 425 6th Avenue Saturday, January 20, 2:30PM with discussion to follow Never before seen footage of Hitler's "Degenerate Art" Exhibition, an experiment ... Read more
A People’s History of the World
Orchard Street, Newark, NJ classroom Orchard Street, Newark, NJ, United StatesConvened by Branden Rippey Downtown Newark on Orchard Street Using A People’s History of the World by Chris Harman, this course will study the broad trends in the history of our world, from early human civilization to today. We will complete the book during this term, covering events from 1750 through our present day. The ... Read more
Degenerate!: Art and the State
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NY...we travel to postwar America, where the elites also held that art should fulfill an ideological (if not overtly political) function, but were politically compelled to denigrate both Nazi and now Soviet control over culture. The CIA worked alongside corporations to install “corporate” non-partisan, inoffensive art that celebrated the individual (i.e. capitalist and not communist) and denigrated anything containing possible, even hinted at, socialist leanings. Abstraction, particularly Abstract Expressionism became their rallying cry.
Revolution in China: 1911-1949
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYOf 20th-century revolutions, the upheaval in China that culminated in the declaration in 1949 of the People’s Republic was arguably just as significant as the Russian Revolution of 1917. Beginning this January, the Revolutions Reading Group undertakes an in-depth study of that 40-year struggle, from the overthrow of the monarchy in 1911 to the victory of the Communist Party after World War II.
Manuals On Organizing, Version 1
On-Line via Zoom You will receive Zoom link by email before the event., NYThis group will read over the next period a number of books on raising consciousness, organization and various methods and theories on how to develop a strong anti-capitalist movement.