COMMA READING GROUP, 2020-21: POSSIBLE FUTURES
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.
Winter 2020 COMMA Lecture Series, Post-doctoral Fellow Jesse Miller, Friday, February 28th
You are all invited to attend a talk by Jesse Miller, this year’s Postdoctoral Fellow of Literature and Medical Humanities, entitled “Troping the Literary Clinic: Metaphors for Reading in a Therapeutic Culture”.
Friday, February 28th, 3:00-5:00 p.m. in the Sankey Room (South Hall 2623).
Discussion and refreshment to follow. Please join us to support the outstanding work of our English department’s postdoctoral fellow!
Winter 2020 COMMA Reading Group Meets Friday, February 14th
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” from A Grammar of the Multitude: http://www.sduk.us/afterwork/virno_a_grammar_of_the.pdf
Winter 2020 COMMA Reading Group Meets Friday, January 31st
Friday, January 31st, 3:00-5:00 p.m. in the Sankey Room (South Hall 2623).
Please join our discussion of the following readings:
Peter Stallybrass, “Marx and Heterogeneity: Thinking the Lumpenproletariat”
Hal Draper, “The Lumpen-class Versus the Proletariat”
