Next time, we’ll discuss two of James Baldwin’s interventions: “On Being White… and Other Lies” and his conversation with Margaret Mead, “A Rap on Race”, which exists as an audio recording on Youtube. See you soon.

I thought Pierre Clastres might have particular resonance after our last discussion. From his book of the same name, we’ll look at the concluding essay “Society Against the State” (pp. 189-218). See you soon.

Returning to an old favorite, never to be exhausted. Walter Benjamin’s “Theses on the Philosophy of History” (pp. 253-264) gets the business.

Next time, we’ll crack into some of the Fred Moten/Stefano Harney material. From The Undercommons, we’ll discuss chapter 6: “Fantasy in the Hold” (pp. 87-99), and from All Incomplete, chapter 1: “The Theft of Assembly” (pp. 13-20).

This week, a few selections from Jean Baudrillard’s The Transparency of Evil. We’ll read “The Hell of the Same”, “The Melodrama of Difference”, “Irreconcilability” (pp. 113-145), “The Declination of Wills”, and “The Object as Strange Attractor” (pp. 164-174). See you soon.