November & December 2024
Capitalism and the Death Drive by Byung-Chul Han, translated by Daniel Steuer. Polity, 2021.
The following sessions begin at 12:00 pm Eastern Time.
- November 2: “Capitalism and the Death Drive” + “Why Revolution Is Impossible Today”
- November 9: “The Total Exploitation of the Human Being” + “Inside the Digital Panopticon” + “Only What Is Dead Is Transparent”
- November 16: “Dataism and Nihilism” + “Torturous Emptiness”
- November 23: “Jumping Humans” + “Where Do the Refugees Come From?”
- November 30: “Where the Wild Things Are” + “Who Is a Refugee?”
- December 7: “Beauty Lies Yonder, in the Foreign” + “The Big Rush”
- December 14: “In Your Face” + “The End of Liberalism”
- December 21: “It Is Eros That Defeats Depression” + “Capitalism Dislikes Silence” + “COVID-19 Has Reduced Us to a ‘Society of Survival'” + “‘I Am Sorry, But These Are the Facts'”
January to March, 2025
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (1811)
- January 11. Volume 1, Chapters 1-18
- January 18. Volume 1, Chapters 19-22; Volume 2, Chapters 1-7
- January 25. Volume 2, Chapters 8-14; Volume 3, Chapters 1-3
- February 1. Volume 3, Chapters 4-14
Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud (1930)
- February 8. Chapters 1-4
- February 15. Chapters 5-8
The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are by Alva Noë (2023)
- February 22. Preface + Chapters 1-3
- March 1. Chapters 4
- March 8. Chapters 5-6
- March 15. Chapters 7-8
- March 22. Chapters 9-10
- March 29. Chapters 11-12
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