This week we’ll discuss the first two chapters of W.E.B. Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction (“The Black Worker” and “The White Worker”). See you there.

A last taste of Dionysian glories next week, as we conclude The Birth of Tragedy and select a new direction hence. Section 20 through the conclusion are up for consideration. Anon, anon…

“A coterie of perennial nuisances persists, despite pleadings from the local citizenry, in discussing Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy. ‘Insularity has its virtue,’ one remarked.”

Sections 13-19 next time!

Pushing forward with The Birth of Tragedy, this week reading sections 6-12. See you soon!

Join us next week as we start Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy. We’ll read the preface and sections 1-5. Hope to see you there.

On Tuesday we will conclude our reading of Georges Bataille’s On Nietzsche by discussing the last two sections of the Diary. In the interest of not splitting sections in twain or spending an entire week on the “Epilogue”, this week’s reading will be a bit longer than the previous ones. Accordingly, please give yourself enough time to read about 40 pp. of this dense work.

Our reading begins at pp. 121 with “The Times (June-July 1944)” and ends on pp. 162 at the conclusion of “Epilogue (August 1944)”. Several appendices and the Memorandum remain for those who wish to continue engaging with this captivating text, but our collective journey through & with it ends this week.

More On Nietzsche, this week discussing the chapter “April-June 1944: The Position of Chance”.

Sorry about the late post this week, I plum forgot what with the book fair and all! Tonight we’ll continue to discuss Bataille’s On Nietzsche as we look at the first section of the Diary – “The ‘Teacup’, ‘Zen’, and the Beloved”.

Pushing forward with Georges Bataille’s On Nietzsche, we’ll look at Part 2 — “Summit and Decline”. Til then, stay fierce.

Next week we’re starting Georges Bataille’s On Nietzsche. We’ll ponder the Preface and Part 1: Mr. Nietzsche. See you then.