5.7.12 - 5.14.12. this week in platypus. book chat with richard wolin. coffee breaks. reading groups

[Brian C Hioe]

tonight: book chat with richard wolin, on The Wind from the East

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NYU

Monday, May 7

7:00 pm

NYU Kimmel Student Center, Room 912

//60 Washington Square South

Free food.

Join us for a discussion with Richard Wolin, distinguished Professor of History at the City University of New York
Graduate Center, on his recent book The Wind from the East: French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution,
and the Legacy of the 1960s.

Contact: Jeremy Cohan 
//j.co...@nyu.edu

Website: http://newyork.platypus1917.org/event-book-chat-with-richard-wolin-author-of-the-wind-from-the-east/

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weekly meeting: coffee breaks

Platypus Coffee Breaks are the informal conversations about 

the meaning and future of the Left that Platypus hosts on a 

weekly basis. They are a great time to meet with members of

Platypus, fellow travelers, and allies of the group. It’s an opportunity
to discuss issues raised in the latest issue of the Platypus Review,
consider the state of the Left, and just hang out with people who have
similar political interests. Please join us! 
newyork.platypus1917.org

Please note: This week will be our last coffee break for the academic semester for both NYU

and the New School.  Stay tuned for an announcement of a summer NYC coffee break!

--------------------------------------------------- NYU Tuesdays  //5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Think Coffee  //248 Mercer St.  //between 3rd and 4th St. Contact: Jeremy Cohan //j.c...@nyu.edu

--------------------------------------------------- New School   Wednesdays //4:30 pm - 6:00 pm   Lang Café //65 West 11th Street   Contact: Alex Gleason //glea...@gmail.com

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weekly marxist reading group: introduction to revolutionary Marxism

for the full syllabus: http://newyork.platypus1917.org/platypus-history-of-marxism-readings-fallautumn-2011-%E2%80%93-winter-2012-syllabus/

Week 27. May 12–13, 2012

Please note that this is the last session of our reading group for the spring semester.

+ Adorno, “On Subject and Object” (1969)
• Adorno, “Marginalia to Theory and Praxis” (1969)
• Adorno, “Resignation” (1969)
+ Adorno and Herbert Marcuse, correspondence on the German New Left (1969)
+ Esther Leslie, Introduction to the 1969 Adorno-Marcuse correspondence (1999)
+ Adorno, “Late Capitalism or Industrial Society?” (AKA “Is Marx Obsolete?”) (1968)

--------------------------------------------------- NYU   Sundays //1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Puck Building, 4th Floor Memorial Room   //295 Lafayette St.  //the corner of Houston and Lafayette Contact: Jeremy Cohan  //j.co...@nyu.edu

--------------------------------------------------- New School   Saturdays //1:00 pm - 4:00 pm   Lang Café //65 West 11th Street   Contact: James Vaughn james....@yale.edu

 

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focused on problems and tasks inherited from the “Old”
(1920s-30s), “New” (1960s-70s) and post-political (1980s-90s)
Left for the possibilities of emancipatory politics today.

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