This week, we continue with Thomas Ligotti’s fascinating The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror. By popular demand, we’ll read half of the first chapter (“The Nightmare of Being”), pp.19-46.

Explorations of The Conspiracy against the Human Race (Ligotti)

INTRODUCTION: OF PESSIMISM AND PARADOX

and from Black Seed: Issue 6

THE PUPPET AND THE BOMB

This week, two pieces of ressentiment (says I): “The Future is a Scam” and Peter Wessel Zapffe’s “The Last Messiah”.

Two more on education this week: Emma Goldman’s “The Child and its Enemies” and Layla AbdelRahim’s “Education as the Domestication of Inner Space”.

Next week, two pieces on schools and freestyle schooling. “What do we learn in schools that couldn’t be learned elsewhere?”and one from the collection Anarchist Pedagogies — “Spaces of Learning: The Anarchist Free Skool”.

We never actually got around to discussing the second half of Having Little, Being Much, so Tuesday we’ll do that. “Eight: Detroit” (pp. 43) to the end.

Tomorrow, we will primarily go over this weekend’s BASTARD Conference. If we have some time, we’ll read a story out loud to each other. No need to do anything in advance, just show up!

We’ll finish reading Having Little, Being Much, going from ”Eight: Detroit” (pp. 43) to the end.

The BASTARD Conference is this Saturday. If you’re presenting, please drop by the study group so we can discuss some final logistics. And if you haven’t sent me your presentation description for the program, do so at once!

Next week we’ll start Lorraine Perlman’s memoir on the life of Fredy Perlman — Having Little, Being Much. We’ll go through roughly the first half of the book, stopping at “Eight: Detroit” on pp. 43.

BASTARD Conference is two weeks from this Saturday! Get me your final presentation descriptions as soon as you’re able! <3

We were set to read a few essays by Baudelaire tomorrow but Anika won’t be able to make it, so we’ll probably push that back til next week. Without any other prospects that come to mind, I’m going to put forward an essay by Foucault which came up in preparing my BASTARD presentation for this year. “The Subject and Power” begins on pp. 208.

A little more than two weeks til BASTARD. Would be nice if all presenters could make it the next three weeks so we can discuss some matters related to the event.