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COMMA READING GROUP, 2020-21: POSSIBLE FUTURES During the UCSB Covid Lockdown, COMMA continued with a full schedule of on-line Reading Group meetings. The year’s theme was POSSIBLE FUTURES. Here are the poster announcements for each of the meetings during the academic year 2020-21.

Friday, February 14th, 3:00-5:00 p.m. in the Sankey Room (South Hall 2623). Frantz Fanon, “Grandeur and Weakness of Spontaneity” from The Wretched of the Earthhttp://home.ku.edu.tr/~mbaker/CSHS503/FrantzFanon.pdf Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, “Preface, Life in Common” and selections from Part II, “Multitude” (pp. 99-115, 129-138, 189-190, and 211-219) from Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire: http://rebels-library.org/files/multitude.pdf Paolo Virno, “Introduction” […]

A COMMA Special Event! Friday, January 17th, 2:00-5:00 p.m. in the Fishbowl (South Hall 2635). Please join us for a screening of Bong Joon-Ho’s 2019 film Parasite. The film will be shown at 2:00 p.m., with discussion, food and refreshments to follow. Don’t miss this exciting event!

You are all invited to attend the third meeting of the COMMA Reading Group: Friday, November 8th, 3:00-5:00 p.m. in the Sankey Room (South Hall 2623). Please join our discussion of the following readings: From Friedrich Engels’s Dialectics of Nature:“Introduction”: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1883/don/ch01.htm“Dialectics”: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1883/don/ch02.htm“Basic Forms of Motion”: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1883/don/ch03.htm“The Measure of Motion–Work”: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1883/don/ch04.htm“The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man”: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1876/part-played-labour/index.htm