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SUMMARY:Reading Science Fiction Politically
DESCRIPTION:The Science and Visionary Fiction reading group reconvenes April 15 for a new Spring season. Watch this space for coming reading selections and use the website contact page for questions and suggestions. \n*     *     * \nJoin us this winter to read five landmark\, award-winning novels\, and novellas using science fiction to shine a sharp light on social and political conditions today. Our authors fluidly extrapolate from capitalism today for encounters with the climate crisis\, artificial intelligence\, gender\, relationships\, race and class. Each has science with the science supporting envisioning and speculation about a just way forward and the obstacles in getting there. \nOur group reads each book in sequence split over two to four weeks. Our discussions expand from themes in the fiction to critical topics of today’s struggles–war\, elections\, climate\, and more. Whether you have read a lot of classic science fiction\, join us if you read fiction passionately and enjoy talking about it\, sharing reviews and multimedia\, and using reading and writing fiction to deepen our political commitments. \nWinter selections (still in formation!) \n\nDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? By Philp K Dick (start here)\nTranslation State\, by Ann Leckie\nNetwork Effect\, by Martha Wells\nThis Is How You Lose the Time War\, by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone\nThe Deep\, by Rivers Solomon\n\nInquire if you’d like to register for some and not all books. \nConvened by Steve Backman\, long-time explorer of the visionary side of science fiction and part of the MEP exec team
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-science-fiction-politically-a-winter-reading-group/
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Science Fiction,Visionary Fiction
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SUMMARY:Hegel for Radicals: The Science of Logic II
DESCRIPTION:The MEP’s recurring series Hegel for Radicals continues this winter with our reading of Part II of Hegel’s magnum opus\, The Science of Logic. Over 12 weeks we will cover Books 2 and 3\, Essence and the Concept. The first session on January 27 will be a review of Book I\, Being\, to help new students catch up. \nFamiliarity with this work greatly aids any reading of Marx’s Capital. Alex Steinberg will guide participants past the legendary obstacles to understanding this unsurpassed presentation of dialectics. Its depth and systematic structure is without parallel in any other of Hegel’s works. \nThese sessions bring out what is living in Hegel for those who want to change the world. No prior experience with Hegel or attendance at previous classes is expected or required. Our goal is to make Hegel’s dialectic less mysterious as we go along and try to tease out the revolutionary implications in his thought and its significance for our time. \nAlex Steinberg is the facilitator of Hegel for Radicals. He is an independent scholar who has taught and published on topics such as the philosophy of Heidegger and Nazism\, Marxism and humanism\, Hegel’s philosophy of history and Hegel’s Phenomenology at various alternative educational institutions. Alex was a Conference Presenter at the First International Conference on Trotsky in Havana\, Cuba. he has been also involved with the governance of WBAI radio in New York and its parent organization\, Pacifica\, most recently as the Chair of the Pacifica National Board from 2020-2021.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/hegel-for-radicals-the-science-of-logic-ii/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Hegelianism,Marx and Hegel,Marxist Method,Modernity,Multi-session Classes,Philosophy,Science and Method,Spinoza
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SUMMARY:Reading Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks - Spring 2024
DESCRIPTION:In this ongoing weekly reading group\, we continue to read and learn from Gramsci’s Selections from the Prison Notebooks.  Led by Piruz Alemi\, we explore key themes and concepts related to politics and civil society\, including race\, class and gender\, religion\, linguistic and other methods of analysis\, critical theory\, mass media\, the arts and cinema\, hegemony\, and subaltern studies. Reading with a “Gramscian Past and Present” approach\, we consider how intellectuals and organizers discover new\, transformative methods and languages for the struggles of today. \nThroughout these sessions\, we connect our own cultures and life experiences with contemporary struggles including the unfolding in the Woman\, Life\, Freedom movement in Iran. \nParticipation in previous sessions is not a requirement; all are welcome.
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/reading-antonio-gramscis-prison-notebooks-winter-2024/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Reading Group
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SUMMARY:Reading Science Fiction Politically - Spring 2024 Season
DESCRIPTION:The Science and Visionary Fiction reading group meets weekly to read and discuss science\, visionary and speculative fiction that bears on politics\, the environment\, and the struggle for a better future for all. We focus on the concept of visionary fiction\, emerging from Octavia Butler’s writings and beautifully articulated ten years ago by Walidah Imarisha\, “To Build a Future Without Police and Prisons\, We Have to Imagine It First.”  \nWhile far from earthbound\, and while not immune from reexamining the past or imagining\, we do so to stay with the present\, and with paths forward that do need new envisioning and imagining. \nThis year\, our selections have explored how artificial and nonhuman intelligence heighten both contradictions and possibilities. In the best of contemporary science fiction (and science fiction-adjacent) writing\, conflicts over these issues illustrate the larger dimensions of social conflict today. \nTo start the spring season\, we will read Ray Nayler’s 2022 novel\, The Mountain in the Sea. Nayler’s novel encompasses these themes–nonhuman (octopus) intelligence\, artificial intelligence\, climate justice and capitalist disregard for the earth\, all in intensely human terms. \nJoin in now to help select the additional titles to add to our current list. \n 
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/scienceandvisionaryfictionspring24/
CATEGORIES:Artificial Intelligence AI,Science Fiction
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SUMMARY:If We Burn: Mass Protest and Political Strategy for the 21st Century
DESCRIPTION:What can the last fifteen years of worldwide mass protests teach us about strategy and organization for socialism? Street protests and organizing from Seattle WTO to Occupy and on to George Floyd Black Lives Matter demonstrated new tactics\, new generations of activists\, and new lessons about the future. Likewise\, worldwide protests from the Arab Spring to Latin America\, Europe\, and Hong Kong also struck hard and have brought many important lessons. Join us for reading and discussion probing three connected themes: \n\nMass street protest since Occupy. We will analyze the rich legacy of largely leaderless mass mobilizations as well as new labor struggles\, locally and globally\, over the last fifteen years.\nCrowdsourcing the Revolution: Digital possibilities\, real-world limitations in networked movements. How has digital communications media changed the organizing landscape since the Arab Spring? A critical assessment of the politics and practicalities of digital networking and communication for effective political strategies.\nFrom mass mobilization to accumulating power against capitalism: new long-term strategy for socialism. What remains important and what has changed in connecting strategy and organization?\n\nReadings will include selections from newly published analyses of and theoretical reflection on recent struggles in the United States and globally: \nIf We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution\, by Vincent Bevins (PublicAffairsBooks)\nTwitter and Tear Gas:  The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest\, by Zeynap Tufekci (Yale)\nCommunism and Strategy: Rethinking Political Mediations\, by Isabelle Garo (Verso)\nNeither Vertical nor Horizontal: A Theory of Political Organization\, by Rodrigo Nunes (Verso) \nBringing direct experience from Brazil\, France\, Turkey\, and the United States\, these authors invite reconsideration of political and organizational strategy in light of the worldwide extent of recent struggles. We will make this a new\, collaborative exercise and add related readings\, multimedia\, and possibly guest talks suggested by participants in the reading group. \nTuesdays\, at 6:30 pm EST; Winter series ends April 30; RSVP for information about coming Spring series.\nPhotos: Occupy Wall Street\, 1 year later (credit Glenn Halog: 2012); Black Lives Matter (credit: Taymaz Valley 2020) \nConvened by Steve Backman and Rebecca Minnich
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/if-we-burn-political-strategy-for-21st-century/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Organizing,Political Strategy,Reading Group
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