Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Network

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:

• 03/26 – Robbins, Jeff. Radical Democracy and Political Theology, Chapter 1 and Conclusion

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

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:

• 03/19 – Öcalan, Abdulah. Democratic Confederalism

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

The organisers warmly invite you to participate in the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center at Duquesne University’s 42nd Annual Phenomenology Symposium “Entanglement and Style: Philosophy and the Fantasy of AI” with Prof. Alva Noë of the University of California at Berkeley on April 18 and 19, 2024.

The recent rise of ChatGPT offers only the latest example of how human life is becoming ever more intertwined with Artificial Intelligence (AI). The Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center’s 2024 Symposium thus seeks to critically investigate the new ways of thinking, feeling, and acting made possible by AI. What possibilities of lived experience emerge with AI? Does AI enrich or diminish our engagement with ourselves, others, and the world? How does reality itself appear differently within a horizon permeated by AI? In this new AI-saturated lifeworld, do we become more human, less human, or differently human?

To help us reflect on these questions and others, Prof. Noë, the author of The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are (Princeton, 2023), as well as Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2009) and several other books on the nature of mind, art, AI, and the philosophy of baseball—will help us investigate the relationship of human experience to AI today.

Learn more and register here.

https://www.duq.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/simon-silverman-phenomenology-center/index.php

The schedule is as follows.

• April 18th at 2 pm, Seminar on The Entanglement Ch. 6 “The Aesthetic Predicament”
• April 19th at 10 am, Seminar on The Entanglement Ch. 4 “Styles of Seeing”
• April 19th at 3 pm, Public Lecture on “Making Meaning, Finding Style: AI’s Challenge”

The organisers hope you can join them either in person or online. Attendance at the seminar is free of charge. Please contact the organisers at phenomenology@duq.edu with any questions, and please feel free to circulate this invitation to anyone you think might be interested.

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:

• 03/12 – Dean, Jodi. Democracy and other Neoliberal Fantasies, Chapter 3

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

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:

• 03/12 – Dean, Jodi. Democracy and other Neoliberal Fantasies, Chapter 3

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

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:

• 03/05 – Nancy, Jean-Luc. The Truth of Democracy

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

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:

• 03/05 – Nancy, Jean-Luc. The Truth of Democracy

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

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:

• 02/27 – Brown, Wendy. “We are all Democrats Now”

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

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:

• 02/27 – Brown, Wendy. “We are all Democrats Now”

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

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:

• 02/20 – Rancière, Jacques. “From Victorious Democracy to Criminal Democracy” in The Hatred of Democracy

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