Hi
Sorry for X-Postings.
We would like to invite you to our weekly reading group.
N.K.
Elsenstr. 52 2.HH 2Etage
12059 Berlin
http://nkprojekt.de
*NO-HOW: A critical series of embodied studies or, in other words–
putting ourselves on the line.*
*Reading Group 2016 | Wednesdays March 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, April 6, 13 &
20, 2016.
18:00-21:00*
This is a weekly meeting for those interested in understanding how we
are conditioned in different ways. If we consider the possibility of
actual transformation, first we need to understand ourselves in relation
to this world.
We will explore our own determination from different perspectives:
linguistically, socially, sexually, culturally, racially, economically,
historically, biologically, and more. We will also take into account
Berlin and the changes that is going through.
Launched by a group of musicians and artists, this experimental series
starts with a critical standpoint towards current culture and music in
particular, including the avant-garde, popular and obscure: does music
contain transformative qualities? Or is it just a soundtrack for our
fucked up times? Are extreme actions, improvisational approaches and
noise enough to dismantle our conditioned selves? Or do we need to
radically reconsider the critical potential of these practices? Can we
still say no to the unfairness of this world through cultural practices
or do we need something else altogether?
Each week a text will be proposed which should be read before attending.
The first part of the meeting will be discussion; here we will
collectively draw notes and create a ‘score’ to guide us through
‘embodied exercises’ in the second part of the meeting. We wish to learn
not only discursively, but through embodied practice, so we can
experientially understand what experience is. By collectively using
ourselves -including our bodies- as material for the exercises, we
attempt to understand our conditioning through action.
*/PREPARATORY SESSIONS/*/(to precede the coming ‘Perspectives’)/:
*2. März*: Some Remarks on Kant’s Theory of Experience by Wilfrid Sellars
*9. März*: Introduction to The Essence of Christianity from The Fiery
Brook by Ludwig Feuerbach AND Christianity and Heathenism chapter from
The Essence of Christianity by Ludwig Feuerbach
*16. März*: Feuerbach: Opposition of the Materialist and Idealist
Outlooks chapter from The German Ideology by Marx-Engels
*23. März*: Chapters 1-6 in Dialectics of Labour by Chris Arthur
*30. März*: Chapters 7-11 in Dialectics of Labour by Chris Arthur
*6. April*: The Doctrine of Being: Quantity, Quality & Measure in The
Encyclopedia of Logic by Hegel
*13. April*: §112-131 from chapter The Doctrine of Essence in The
Encyclopedia of Logic by Hegel
*20. April*: §132-159 from chapter The Doctrine of Essence in The
Encyclopedia of Logic by Hegel
*27. April*: Marx, Hegel and the Value-Form by Chris Arthur
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