Reading Group: McLuhan on Media and Television

28 Oct

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READING GROUP:

PCPN is back this fall with, DIGITAL MACHINICS, a unit on modern technology and its effect of human self-understanding. Don’t miss our meetings most Tuesday evenings (7:00pm) at the Bloomfield Crazy Mocha.

This week:

  • 10/29 – McLuhan, Marshall. “The Medium is the Message” and “Television” in Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man

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: 7:00pm-9:00pm
Location: Bloomfield Crazy Mocha (4525 Liberty Ave).

As a reminder, even though we have moved to thematic groups, there is no expectation that people participate in every week, so even if you can’t commit to the whole section, you are still more than welcome to join us when you can.

OTHER EVENTS THIS WEEK:

OTHER NEWS:

LOOKING AHEAD:

Upcoming in DIGITAL MACHINICS

Pdfs of the readings can be found: HERE

  • 10/29 – McLuhan, Marshall. “The Medium is the Message” and “Television” in Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
  • 11/05 – Lacan, Jacques. “VI: Freud, Hegel and the Machine” in Seminar II: The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis (1954-1955).
  • 11/12 – Guattari, Felix. “Signifying Faciality, Diagrammatic Faciality” in Machinic Unconscious.
  • 11/19 – De Landa, Manuel. “Collision Course” in War in the Age of Intelligent Machines
  • 11/26 – Lazzarato, Maurizio. “Signifying Semiologies and Asignifying Semiotics
    in Production and in the Production of Subjectivity” in Signs and Machines.
  • 12/03 – Bifo. “Info-labor and ‘precarization’.”
  • 12/10 – Han, Byung-Chul. TBD.
  • 12/17 – Serres, Michel. Thumbelina, excerpt TBD.

 

Reading Group: Chun on Race and/as Technology

21 Oct

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READING GROUP:

PCPN is back this fall with, DIGITAL MACHINICS, a unit on modern technology and its effect of human self-understanding. Don’t miss our meetings most Tuesday evenings (7:00pm) at the Bloomfield Crazy Mocha.

This week:

  • 10/22 – Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong. “Race and/as Technology or How to Do Things to Race” in Race After the Internet.

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: 7:00pm-9:00pm
Location: Bloomfield Crazy Mocha (4525 Liberty Ave).

As a reminder, even though we have moved to thematic groups, there is no expectation that people participate in every week, so even if you can’t commit to the whole section, you are still more than welcome to join us when you can.

OTHER EVENTS THIS WEEK:

OTHER NEWS:

LOOKING AHEAD:

Upcoming in DIGITAL MACHINICS

Pdfs of the readings can be found: HERE

  • 10/22 – Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong. “Race and/as Technology or How to Do Things to Race” in Race After the Internet.
  • 10/29 – McLuhan, Marshall. “The Medium is the Message” and “Television” in Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
  • 11/05 – Lacan, Jacques. “VI: Freud, Hegel and the Machine” in Seminar II: The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis (1954-1955).
  • 11/12 – Guattari, Felix. “Signifying Faciality, Diagrammatic Faciality” in Machinic Unconscious.
  • 11/19 – De Landa, Manuel. “Collision Course” in War in the Age of Intelligent Machines
  • 11/26 – Lazzarato, Maurizio. “Signifying Semiologies and Asignifying Semiotics
    in Production and in the Production of Subjectivity” in Signs and Machines.
  • 12/03 – Bifo. “Info-labor and ‘precarization’.”
  • 12/10 – Han, Byung-Chul. TBD.
  • 12/17 – Serres, Michel. Thumbelina, excerpt TBD.

 

Reading Group: Marcuse on Modern Technology

14 Oct

Image result for marcuse memeREADING GROUP:

PCPN is back this fall with, DIGITAL MACHINICS, a unit on modern technology and its effect of human self-understanding. Don’t miss our meetings most Tuesday evenings (7:00pm) at the Bloomfield Crazy Mocha.

This week:

  • 10/15 – Marcuse, Herbert. “Some Social Implications of Modern Technology”

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: 7:00pm-9:00pm
Location: Bloomfield Crazy Mocha (4525 Liberty Ave).

As a reminder, even though we have moved to thematic groups, there is no expectation that people participate in every week, so even if you can’t commit to the whole section, you are still more than welcome to join us when you can.

OTHER EVENTS THIS WEEK:

OTHER NEWS:

LOOKING AHEAD:

Upcoming in DIGITAL MACHINICS

Pdfs of the readings can be found: HERE

  • 10/15 – Marcuse, Herbert. “Some Social Implications of Modern Technology”
  • 10/22 – Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong. “Race and/as Technology or How to Do Things to Race” in Race After the Internet.
  • 10/29 – McLuhan, Marshall. “The Medium is the Message” and “Television” in Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
  • 11/05 – Lacan, Jacques. “VI: Freud, Hegel and the Machine” in Seminar II: The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis (1954-1955).
  • 11/12 – Guattari, Felix. “Signifying Faciality, Diagrammatic Faciality” in Machinic Unconscious.
  • 11/19 – De Landa, Manuel. “Collision Course” in War in the Age of Intelligent Machines
  • 11/26 – Lazzarato, Maurizio. “Signifying Semiologies and Asignifying Semiotics
    in Production and in the Production of Subjectivity” in Signs and Machines.
  • 12/03 – Bifo. “Info-labor and ‘precarization’.”
  • 12/10 – Han, Byung-Chul. TBD.
  • 12/17 – Serres, Michel. Thumbelina, excerpt TBD.

 

Reading Group: Heidegger on Technology

7 Oct

READING GROUP:

PCPN is back this fall with, DIGITAL MACHINICS, a unit on modern technology and its effect of human self-understanding. Don’t miss our meetings most Tuesday evenings (7:00pm) at the Bloomfield Crazy Mocha.

This week:

  • 10/08 – Heidegger, Martin. “The Question Concerning Technology”

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: 7:00pm-9:00pm
Location: Bloomfield Crazy Mocha (4525 Liberty Ave).

As a reminder, even though we have moved to thematic groups, there is no expectation that people participate in every week, so even if you can’t commit to the whole section, you are still more than welcome to join us when you can.

OTHER EVENTS THIS WEEK:

OTHER NEWS:

LOOKING AHEAD:

Upcoming in DIGITAL MACHINICS

Pdfs of the readings can be found: HERE

  • 10/08 – Heidegger, Martin. “The Question Concerning Technology”
  • 10/15 – Marcuse, Herbert. “Some Social Implications of Modern Technology”
  • 10/22 – Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong. “Race and/as Technology or How to Do Things to Race” in Race After the Internet.
  • 10/29 – McLuhan, Marshall. “The Medium is the Message” and “Television” in Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
  • 11/05 – Lacan, Jacques. “VI: Freud, Hegel and the Machine” in Seminar II: The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis (1954-1955).
  • 11/12 – Guattari, Felix. “Signifying Faciality, Diagrammatic Faciality” in Machinic Unconscious.
  • 11/19 – De Landa, Manuel. “Collision Course” in War in the Age of Intelligent Machines
  • 11/26 – Lazzarato, Maurizio. “Signifying Semiologies and Asignifying Semiotics
    in Production and in the Production of Subjectivity” in Signs and Machines.
  • 12/03 – Bifo. “Info-labor and ‘precarization’.”
  • 12/10 – Han, Byung-Chul. TBD.
  • 12/17 – Serres, Michel. Thumbelina, excerpt TBD.

 

Reading Group: Ihde on Husserl and Technology

28 Sep

READING GROUP:

PCPN is back this fall with, DIGITAL MACHINICS. Don’t miss our meetings most Tuesday evenings (7:00pm) at the Bloomfield Crazy Mocha.

This week:

  • 10/01 – Ihde, Don. “Where are Husserl’s Technologies?” in Husserl’s Missing Technologies.

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: 7:00pm-9:00pm
Location: Bloomfield Crazy Mocha (4525 Liberty Ave).

As a reminder, even though we have moved to thematic groups, there is no expectation that people participate in every week, so even if you can’t commit to the whole section, you are still more than welcome to join us when you can.

OTHER EVENTS THIS WEEK:

OTHER NEWS:

LOOKING AHEAD:

Upcoming in DIGITAL MACHINICS

Pdfs of the readings can be found: HERE

  • 10/01 – Ihde, Don. “Where are Husserl’s Technologies?” in Husserl’s Missing Technologies.
  • 10/08 – Heidegger, Martin. “The Question Concerning Technology”
  • 10/15 – Marcuse, Herbert. “Some Social Implications of Modern Technology”
  • 10/22 – Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong. “Race and/as Technology or How to Do Things to Race” in Race After the Internet.
  • 10/29 – Lacan, Jacques. “VI: Freud, Hegel and the Machine” in Seminar II: The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis (1954-1955).
  • 11/05 – Guattari, Felix. “Signifying Faciality, Diagrammatic Faciality” in Machinic Unconscious.
  • 11/12 – Lazzarato, Maurizio. Signs and Machines, excerpt TBD.
  • 11/19 – Bifo. “Info-labor and ‘precarization’.”
  • 11/26 – Han, Byung-Chul. TBD.
  • 12/03 – Virilio, Paul. TBD.
  • 12/10 – Serres, Michel. Thumbelina, excerpt TBD.

 

Reading Group: Esposito on Community

18 Aug

READING GROUP:

PCPN is back this summer with, GIFT // DEBT // DEATH. Don’t miss our meetings most Tuesday evenings (7:00pm) at the Bloomfield Crazy Mocha.

This week:

  • 08/20 – Roberto Esposito, “Introduction: Nothing in Common” in Communitas

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: 7:00pm-9:00pm
Location: Bloomfield Crazy Mocha (4525 Liberty Ave).

As a reminder, even though we have moved to thematic groups, there is no expectation that people participate in every week, so even if you can’t commit to the whole section, you are still more than welcome to join us when you can.

OTHER EVENTS THIS WEEK:

OTHER NEWS:

LOOKING AHEAD:

Upcoming in GIFT // DEBT // DEATH

Pdfs of the readings can be found: HERE

  • 08/20 – Roberto Esposito, “Introduction: Nothing in Common” in Communitas

 

Reading Group: Blanchot on Community

11 Aug

READING GROUP:

PCPN is back this summer with, GIFT // DEBT // DEATH. Don’t miss our meetings most Tuesday evenings (7:00pm) at the Bloomfield Crazy Mocha.

This week:

  • 08/13 – Maurice Blanchot, “The Negative Community” in The Unavowable Community

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: 7:00pm-9:00pm
Location: Bloomfield Crazy Mocha (4525 Liberty Ave).

As a reminder, even though we have moved to thematic groups, there is no expectation that people participate in every week, so even if you can’t commit to the whole section, you are still more than welcome to join us when you can.

OTHER EVENTS THIS WEEK:

OTHER NEWS:

LOOKING AHEAD:

Upcoming in GIFT // DEBT // DEATH

Pdfs of the readings can be found: HERE

  • 08/13 – Maurice Blanchot, “The Negative Community” in The Unavowable Community
  • 08/20 – Roberto Esposito, “Introduction: Nothing in Common” in Communitas

 

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