Each Sunday at 4pm, a short text is read and discussed. An introduction is given before the reading, so no prior knowledge or pre-reading is needed. This club is open to everybody regardless of "education" or "experience".

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Current Text: George Bataille’s “The Accursed Share”

Past weeks:

Thomas Moynihan: Spinal Catastrophism (2019)

Georges Bataille: The Accursed Share (1949)

David Graeber: Debt: The First 5000 Years (2011)

Byung Chul Han: The Expulsion of the Other (2016)

Frederic Jameson: Metacommentary (1971).

Simone Weil: Prerequisite to Dignity of Labour (1941).

Emily Hodges: ‘The Playfulness of Aesthetic Experience’ (2023).

Fred Moten, Stefano Harney: ‘The University and the Undercommons: Seven Theses’ (2004).

Sylvia Wynter's 'Unsettling the coloniality of being'. (2003).

Immanuel Kant’s ‘The Transcendental Doctrine of Elements, First Part: The Transcendental Aesthetic’ (1781).

Immanuel Kant’s ‘Introduction to the Critique of Pure Reason’ (1781).

Guyer & Wood’s Introduction to Immanuel Kant’s ‘Critique of Pure Reason’. (1998)

Yukio Mishima’s ‘Sun & Steel’. (1968).

Hito Steyerl's 'A Thing Like You and Me.' (2010).

Walter Benjamin’s ‘Romanticism: An Undelivered Address to Students’ (1913).