September 21st: Why Marx Was Right

We'll be reading Eagleton's Why Marx Was Right. Should make for a spirited discussion.

17th August: Civilisations and it's Disconents

For the next meeting we're reading Freud's Civilisations and it's Disconents and Explaining Violence in South Africa: Some psychoanalytic considerations.

Habermas: A Very Short Introduction

Next book is Habermas: A Very Short Introduction on 20th July at Candid Arts Trust Cafe in Angel.

Just to keep the blog up to date other recent books have included Sennet's The Corrosion Of Character and The Great Stagflation.

Next meeting: Wikileaks, 16th of March

Thanks to everyone who put some effort into Judith Butler and participated in what turned out to be quite a spirited discussion.

For the next meeting we decided we'd like to do something a bit different and thought wikileaks would make an interesting topic.

The plan was to find a few articles around the issues of wikileaks as a current phenomena, arguments around transparency and power (one of Assange's arguments is that the more power a group wields the more transparent it needs to be) and effects the leaks are having, particularly in places like Tunisia and Egypt.

So far Zizek and Piliger have been put forward, and they'll be a some other reading selected too.

All That's Solid Melts into Air

For the next meeting we agreed to read All That's Solid Melts into Air by Marshal Berman. Tha plan is to read at least the first three parts (Goethe, Marx and Baudelaire), and to meet on the 12th January. Hopefully see you there.

Wednesday the 24th November: Red Plenty

Just in case it wasn't obvious, this blog is only irregularly updated - best to email and join the mailing list to keep up-to-date. After reading The Shock Doctrine, The Blank Slate and sections of The Origins Of Totalitarianism over the summer we're now starting on Francis Spufford's Red Plenty.

There's a free sample and a review by Steven Rose.

June 30: The Enigma Of Capital

Sorry for the lack of updates. We read The Fragile Absolute last month and this month we're reading David Harvey's The Enigma Of Capital.