This week we’re reading some of the graphic novel Transmetropolitan. It’s always a bit tricky making sure everyone has a comfortable way to view GNs. The link there will give you a pop-up version of the issue. I prefer to close the pop-up and just scroll down through the pages so I can zoom in. You can also download it as a .zip if you prefer and read it out of the browser. If for whatever reason none of those work for you, email me (birdsoffire [at] riseup[dot]net) and I’ll find you another format. Let’s go through the first six issues.

Next week, we’ll read Donna Haraway’s “A Cyborg Manifesto” and see if it takes us somewhere xeno. See ya soon.

We’ll read some more Walter Benjamin this week: “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (pp. 217-252). Good stuff.

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.

Finishing The Myth of Sisyphus tomorrow. Read from ‘The Absurd Man’ (p. 66) to the end. See ya there.

Ripping into a fun one this week: Tuesday will see us discuss the first half of Albert Camus’ The Myth of Sisyphus, stopping at “The Absurd Man” (p. 66). Remember to scroll down to ‘Download Options’ for the PDF. Adieu.