Pressing forward with our discussions on the Spanish Civil War. This week it’s Chs. 5 & 6 of Ranzato and episodes 5 & 6 of the Granada doc. See you Tuesday!

Continuing our discussion of the Spanish Civil War next week by reading Chs. 3 and 4 of Ranzato and Episodes 3 and 4 of the Granada documentary.

Next week, we’ll kick off a four week exploration of anarchist struggles in the Spanish Civil War with Lawrence Jarach facilitating our discussions. For our first session, please read the first two chapters of Gabriele Ranzato’s The Spanish Civil War (pp. 8-49) and watch the first two episodes of the Granada documentary of the same name. Hope to see you there!

Tuesday we’ll watch a lecture Giorgio Agamben delivered at the European Graduate School in 2011. “The Archeology of Commandment” will be up for discussion.

Late post this week. We’ll look at part of Elias Canetti’s Crowds and Power; to wit, the section “The Command” on pp. 303-333.

Next week, we’re looking at Elisabeth Lenk’s Introduction to Fourier’s Theory of the Four Movements and the General Destinies (pp. 197-224). Thanks to Lee for the scan.

We’ll continue our Fourierist thread next week with the first part of Lee’s translation of Eduardo Subirats’ Utopia and Subversion – part 1, “Fourier or The World as Voluptuousness”. Archive has been giving me issues this week so if you have issues downloading, email birdsoffire [at] riseup [dot] net and I’ll bounce it to you.

Finishing up Fourier’s The World War of Small Pastries on Tuesday: pp. (52-end). See you then.

Next week we’re reading The World War of Small Pastries by Charles Fourier. We’ll discuss pp. 5-52, stopping at “Announcement of the Arrival of the Crusaders”.

I’m assembling an essay on queer death, which has as one of its illuminating points Georges Bataille’s notion of “the community of those who have no community” — the impossibility of presence except as revealed through the death’s intimacy. So I look forward to hearing your thoughts on a remarkable though ephemeral text which treats this incommunicable remainder: Maurice Blanchot’s The Unavowable Community. Let’s consider its first section, “The Negative Community” (pp. 1-26) on Tuesday. Thanks in advance for your indulgence.