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-In our series of monthly meetings for 2022, we extend from our year-long series dedicated to the writing and thought of Donna Haraway “Thick Present: Donna Haraway and the Arts” with a programme of monthly reading circles, engaging deeply with the trouble of our contemporary condition and testing out new methods for synthesis and action. Specifically we will  As with the foregoing series, we will explore historical and contemporary understandings of humanity, nature, non-humanity and technology. We will read aloud together from pertinent texts, summon, express and engage with our responses together. Finally we will explore the power of art and fiction to help us provisionally synthesize some of what we are learning into new narratives which fortify and nurture our work.  +In our series of monthly meetings for 2022, we extend from our year-long series dedicated to the writing and thought of Donna Haraway “Thick Present: Donna Haraway and the Arts” with a programme of monthly reading circles, engaging deeply with the trouble of our contemporary condition and testing out new methods for synthesis and action. Specifically, as with the foregoing series, we will explore historical and contemporary understandings of humanity, nature, non-humanity and technology. We will read aloud together from pertinent texts, summon, express and engage with our responses together. Finally we will explore the power of art and fiction to help us provisionally synthesize some of what we are learning into new narratives which fortify and nurture our work.  
  
 **Carrier Bag Theory and Practice** **Carrier Bag Theory and Practice**
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-  * 1. Ergo-Feminism I: More Work for Mother- Ruth Schwarz  Feb. 27+  * [[1_ergo_feminism_more_work_mother_ruth_schwarz|1. Ergo-Feminism I: More Work for Mother- Ruth Schwarz]]  Feb. 27
   * Technological advance has always been accompanied with utopian promises for the emancipation of humanity from drudgery. Ruth Schwarz shows that though the demands on women have transformed through recent history, they by no means have become fewer or less arduous.    * Technological advance has always been accompanied with utopian promises for the emancipation of humanity from drudgery. Ruth Schwarz shows that though the demands on women have transformed through recent history, they by no means have become fewer or less arduous. 
  
-  * 2. Ergo-feminism II - Silvia Federici+  * [[2_ergo_feminism_ii_silvia_federici|2. Ergo-feminism II - Silvia Federici]]
   * - Federici’s key contribution to Marx’s critique of political economy is to introduce the concept of reproductive labour, meaning all the (usually unpaid) labour which is required to reproduce the capacity of the worker to work. This includes domestic labour in the home, including care work, responsibility for the bulk of which conventionally falls on women.    * - Federici’s key contribution to Marx’s critique of political economy is to introduce the concept of reproductive labour, meaning all the (usually unpaid) labour which is required to reproduce the capacity of the worker to work. This includes domestic labour in the home, including care work, responsibility for the bulk of which conventionally falls on women. 
  
-  * 3. Ergo-feminism III - The Captive Maternal - Joy James+  * [[3_ergo_feminism_iii_joy_james|3. Ergo-feminism III - The Captive Maternal - Joy James]]
   * - Joy James examines the maternal strategies to protect and support their children under conditions of extreme oppression where there are few prospects for success, emancipation, or even survival.    * - Joy James examines the maternal strategies to protect and support their children under conditions of extreme oppression where there are few prospects for success, emancipation, or even survival. 
  
-  * 4. Synthesis I: Xenogenesis -  Octavia Butler +  * [[4_ergo_feminism_iv_octavia_butler|4. Synthesis I: Xenogenesis -  Octavia Butler]] 
   * - On the edge of being human, when human being is barely bearable, Butler’s science fiction allows her to encounter the persistence of racism, colonialism and patriarchy in a highly technologized world with uncommon intimacy and emotional power.    * - On the edge of being human, when human being is barely bearable, Butler’s science fiction allows her to encounter the persistence of racism, colonialism and patriarchy in a highly technologized world with uncommon intimacy and emotional power. 
  
-  * 5. Dialectical Ecology I:  Health - Stacy Alaimo+  * [[5_dialectical_ecology_i_stacy_alaimo|5. Dialectical Ecology I:  Health - Stacy Alaimo]]
   * Modern human life is entangled with and interpenetrated by technologies. Alaimo examines this new hybrid experience in all its complexity, especially with regard to medicine and new notions of health and disability.    * Modern human life is entangled with and interpenetrated by technologies. Alaimo examines this new hybrid experience in all its complexity, especially with regard to medicine and new notions of health and disability. 
    
-  * 6. Dialectical Ecology II:  the Value of Nature - Stefania Barca+  * [[6_dialectical_ecology_ii_stefania_barca|6. Dialectical Ecology II:  the Value of Nature - Stefania Barca]]
   * Barca’s proposal to integrate the “Work of Nature” into the Theory of Value as argued by Marx, is profound and ambitious.  Her analysis grapples intensively with the concerns of Federici, Haraway and Vivero de Castro and provides bracing new syntheses   * Barca’s proposal to integrate the “Work of Nature” into the Theory of Value as argued by Marx, is profound and ambitious.  Her analysis grapples intensively with the concerns of Federici, Haraway and Vivero de Castro and provides bracing new syntheses
    
-  * 7. Dialectical Ecology III: Biosocialism - Donna Haraway+  * [[7_dialectical_ecology_iii_donna_haraway|7. Dialectical Ecology III: Biosocialism - Donna Haraway]]
   * From the Manifesto for Cyborgs to “Staying with the Trouble” Danna Haraway has expanded her explicitly socialist commitments to include all of life. Informed by Margulis’ symbiogenesis theory, Haraway attempts to trace out what a new (post-) humanist / humusimt politics might mean.   * From the Manifesto for Cyborgs to “Staying with the Trouble” Danna Haraway has expanded her explicitly socialist commitments to include all of life. Informed by Margulis’ symbiogenesis theory, Haraway attempts to trace out what a new (post-) humanist / humusimt politics might mean.
    
-  * 8. Synthesis II:  The Destruction of Reason - Gyorgy Lukacs+  * [[8_synthesis_ii_destruction_reason_gyorgy_lukacs|8. Synthesis II:  The Destruction of Reason - Gyorgy Lukacs]]
   * Rosa Luxemburgs warned that modernity will either progress to socialism or collapse into barbarism, is often repeated today. But what happens when elements of the struggle for socialism are reappropriated for Fascism.  In “the Destruction of Reason”, Lukacs discusses how many of the insights of Marxism, denatured of their revolutionary commitment become weapons for reaction. In the face of the deligitimisation of reason and a romantic return to mysticism and belief, he affirms a critical commitment to reason.    * Rosa Luxemburgs warned that modernity will either progress to socialism or collapse into barbarism, is often repeated today. But what happens when elements of the struggle for socialism are reappropriated for Fascism.  In “the Destruction of Reason”, Lukacs discusses how many of the insights of Marxism, denatured of their revolutionary commitment become weapons for reaction. In the face of the deligitimisation of reason and a romantic return to mysticism and belief, he affirms a critical commitment to reason. 
    
-  * 9 Parapolitics I: Teaching to Transgress- bell hooks+  * [[9_parapolitics_teaching_transgress_bell_hooks|9 Parapolitics I: Teaching to Transgress- bell hooks]]
   * - hooks is known as a poet, but some of her most important work is in rethinking education for a rapidly changing world, where social conventions are being radically disrupted.  Over her long academic career, hooks developed a practice she called “engaged pedagogy” which allows students to help each other meaningfully integrate critiques of class, race and sexuality into their studies.   * - hooks is known as a poet, but some of her most important work is in rethinking education for a rapidly changing world, where social conventions are being radically disrupted.  Over her long academic career, hooks developed a practice she called “engaged pedagogy” which allows students to help each other meaningfully integrate critiques of class, race and sexuality into their studies.
    
-  * 10  Parapolitics II: Sojourn for Justice - Claudia Jones+  * [[10_parapolitics_ii_sojourn_justice_claudia_jones|10  Parapolitics II: Sojourn for Justice - Claudia Jones]]
   * - Journalist and activist,  Jones argued that the emancipation of Black women required attending to how they were synergistically “triply oppressed”, economically, racially and sexually, so that any emancipatory struggle  could not be directed only to one facet but must simultaneously attend to all three oppressions and their interplay to succeed. This became one of the foundational theories which became known as intersectionality.    * - Journalist and activist,  Jones argued that the emancipation of Black women required attending to how they were synergistically “triply oppressed”, economically, racially and sexually, so that any emancipatory struggle  could not be directed only to one facet but must simultaneously attend to all three oppressions and their interplay to succeed. This became one of the foundational theories which became known as intersectionality. 
    
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   * - Jane Addams was a philosopher, political reformer and pioneer of social work. Addams was know for her utopian “Hull House”,  a place which provided unprecedented opportunities for social interaction among citizens of various classes and backgrounds. Hull House challenged standardised education and developed innovative methods to help participants develop independent critical thinking and expression.    * - Jane Addams was a philosopher, political reformer and pioneer of social work. Addams was know for her utopian “Hull House”,  a place which provided unprecedented opportunities for social interaction among citizens of various classes and backgrounds. Hull House challenged standardised education and developed innovative methods to help participants develop independent critical thinking and expression. 
    
-  * 12. Synthesis III: : Re-enchantment of Humanism - Sylvia Wynter +  * [[12_synthesis_iii_re_enchantment_humanism_sylvia_wynter|12. Synthesis III: : Re-enchantment of Humanism - Sylvia Wynter]] 
   * Wynter radically rethinks humanism, decrying what she calls bourgeois mono-humanism and decolonizing it with Fanon to produce a dynamic humanism re-enchanted with its own always renegotiated contingency.  Deeply concerned with technological and scientific advance, Wynter confronts the specialising and standardizing tendency of homo oeconomicus with the story-telling and meaning-making homo narrans.   * Wynter radically rethinks humanism, decrying what she calls bourgeois mono-humanism and decolonizing it with Fanon to produce a dynamic humanism re-enchanted with its own always renegotiated contingency.  Deeply concerned with technological and scientific advance, Wynter confronts the specialising and standardizing tendency of homo oeconomicus with the story-telling and meaning-making homo narrans.
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