The PCPN reading group is back next week to kick off a discussion of Radical Democracy. You can find us at Yinz Coffee in Bloomfield (Liberty Ave), most Tuesday evenings 6:30-8:30pm.
Coming up:
- 04/16 – Pabst, Adrian. The Demons of Liberal Democracy, Introduction and Chapter 1
- Join us after the meeting ~8:30pm, at Nico’s Recovery Room, for some celebratory drinks after the end of the unit!
Pdfs of the readings can be found: HERE
Please bring either a digital or hard copy of the text with you to the discussion.
Time: 6:30pm-8:30pm
Location: Yinz Coffee, 4525 Liberty Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15224 (look for the nerds in the back)
SCHEDULE:
- 09/12 – Holloway, Travis. “Seven Procedures for a Democratic Future”
- 09/19 – Spinoza, Benedict. Tractatus Politicus, Preface, Chapters 1-5, 11
- 09/26 – Winstanley, Gerrard. “The True Levellers Standard Advanced”
- 10/03 – Paine, Thomas. The Rights of Man, Second Part, Chapters 3-4
- 10/10 – Marx, Karl. Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, Introduction and Part 2
- 10/17 – Dewey, John. “Creative Democracy – The Task Before Us”; The Public and Its Problems, Chapter 5
- 10/24 – Goldman, Emma. “The Individual, Society and the State”
- 10/31 – No Meeting, Happy Halloween!
- 11/07 – Ramnath, Maia. Decolonizing Anarchy, “Decolonization: The Highest Form of Anarchism”
- 11/14 – Students for a Democratic Society, “The Port Huron Statement”
- 11/21 – Newton, Huey P. “Revolutionary Intercommunalism”
- 11/28 – Gaddafi, Muammar. “The Solution of the Problem of Democracy: The Authority of the People” in The Green Book
- 12/05 – Walzer, Michael. “Philosophy and Democracy”
- 12/12 – Laclau, E. and Mouffe, C., “Hegemony and Radical Democracy” in Hegemony and Socialist Strategy: Towards a Radical Democratic Politics
- 12/19-01/02 – No Meetings, Happy Holidays!
- 01/09 – Fraser, Nancy. “Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy”
- 01/16 – Bookchin, Murray. “Communalism: The Democratic Dimension of Anarchism”
- 01/23 – Honneth, Axel and John M. M. Farrell. “Democracy as Reflexive Cooperation: John Dewey and the Theory of Democracy Today”
- 01/30 – Badiou, Alain. “Highly Speculative Reasoning on the Concept of Democracy” and “The Democratic Emblem”
- 02/06 – Derrida, Jacques. “The Last of the Rogue States: The Democracy to Come, Opening in Two Turns” in Rogues: Two Essays on Reason
- 02/13 – Hardt, Michael & Antonio Negri. Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire, 3.3 “Democracy of the Multitude”
- 02/20 – Rancière, Jacques. “From Victorious Democracy to Criminal Democracy” in The Hatred of Democracy
- 02/27 – Brown, Wendy. “We are all Democrats Now”
- 03/05 – Nancy, Jean-Luc. The Truth of Democracy
- 03/12 – Dean, Jodi. Democracy and other Neoliberal Fantasies, Chapter 3
- 03/19 – Öcalan, Abdulah. Democratic Confederalism
- 03/26 – Robbins, Jeff. Radical Democracy and Political Theology, Chapter 1 and Conclusion
- 04/02 – Crimethinc, From Democracy to Freedom
- 04/09 – Esposito, Roberto. “Postdemocracy and biopolitics”
- 04/16 – Pabst, Adrian. The Demons of Liberal Democracy, Introduction and Chapter 1
Pdfs of the readings can be found: HERE
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