this week in platypus. 8.29.16 - 9.4.16.
Robert Weitzer
this week in platypus:
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weekly 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!
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NYC Coffee Break
Tuesdays @ 6:00pm
Think Coffee
//73 8th Ave
Contact: vcs...@platypus1917.org
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This Week's Readings:
Week D. Radical bourgeois philosophy IV. Nietzsche (2): Asceticism of moderns | Aug. 29, 2016
+ Human, All Too Human: Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil (1999)
• Nietzsche, selection from On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense (1873)
• Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic (1887)
Next week's readings:
Week E. 1960s New Left I. Neo-Marxism | Sep. 5, 2016 U.S. Labor Day weekend
• Martin Nicolaus, “The unknown Marx” (1968)
+ Commodity form chart of terms
• Moishe Postone, “Necessity, labor, and time” (1978)
+ Postone, “History and helplessness: Mass mobilization and contemporary forms of anticapitalism” (2006)
+ Postone, “Theorizing the contemporary world: Brenner, Arrighi, Harvey” (2006)