redmay schedule: there must be some way out of here
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Red May 2025 Schedule
There must be some way out of here
https://www.redmayseattle.org/
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Some Way Out of Here?
Friday, May 9, 11:00 AM PDT
@YouTube
Michael McCarthy, Jasper Bernes, Jodi Dean, Alberto Toscano, Camila Vergara, Philip Wohlstetter (mod)
Beacon Cinema: The Encampments (2025)
dir: Michael T. Workman &
Kei Pritsker
Sunday, May 11, 5:00 PM
Cybernetic Circulation Complex: Big Tech & Planetary Crisis
Tuesday, May 13, 2:00 PM PDT
@YouTube
Nick Dyer-Witheford, Alessandra Mularoni, Nick Srnicek, Kyle Kubler (mod)
Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire
Friday, May 16, 2:00 PM PDT
@YouTube
Sarah Jaffe, Nica Siegel
Delmore Schwartz: Marxism & the Modernist Poet
Saturday, May 17, 11:00 AM PDT @YouTube
Alan Wald, David Lau, Roy Skodnick, Philip Wohlstetter (mod)
Beacon Cinema: Why It Happened Here
Sunday, May 18, 5:00 PM
(Film showing with discussion)
(This is an In-person event)
David Shields, Tommy Swenson, Philip Wohlstetter
The West and the Rest: Capital & Power in a Multipolar World
Tuesday, May 20, 2:00 PM PDT
@YouTube
Sandro Mezzadra, Brett Neilson, Kyle Kubler (mod)
Citizen Marx: Republicanism & Formation of Marx’s Thought
Wednesday, May 21, 11:00 AM PDT @YouTube
Bruno Leipold, Camila Vergara, Michael Hardt, Alyssa Battistoni
American Constitutional Collapse
Thursday, May 22, 11:00 AM PDT
@YouTube
Aziz Rana, Michael Hardt, Camila Vergara, Philip Wohlstetter (mod)
TERFs
Enemy Feminisms: , Policewomen & Girlbosses
Sunday, May 25, 7:00 PM PDT
@Elliott Bay Books
(This is an In-person event)
Sophie Lewis, Emi Koyama (mod)
Beacon Cinema: Fragment of an Empire (1929)
dir: Fridrikh Ermler
Monday, May 26, 7:30 PM
De-reification and Art Now
Tuesday, May 27, 2:00 PM PDT @YouTube
Jaleh Mansoor, Matt Browning, Anita Chari, Minh Nguyen (mod)
Fake Work: How I Began to Suspect, Capitalism Was a Joke
Wednesday, May 28, 2:00 PM PDT @YouTube
Leigh Claire la Berge, Jason Read, Madeline Lane-McKinley, Sarah Jaffe
Whatever Happened to Revolution?
Thursday, May 29, 7:00 PM PDT @TownHall
(This is an In-person event)
Jasper Bernes, Colleen Lye, Nikhil Pal Singh, Idris Robinson
What Just Happened, America?
Friday, May 30 5:00 PM PDT
@Vermillion
Colleen Lye, Idris Robinson, Michael Hardt, Jamie Merchant, Kathi Weeks, Jasper Bernes, Nikhil Pal Singh
Endgame: Economic Nationalism & Global Decline
Saturday, May 31, 12:30 PM PDT
@Elliott Bay Books
(This is an In-person event)
Jamie Merchant, Nikhil Pal Singh (mod)
The Future of Revolution
Saturday, May 31, 2:00 PM PDT @Elliott Bay Books
(This is an In-person event)
Jasper Bernes, Idris Robinson (mod)
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I just started reading this today and I’m already liking the critique of the new Left and folk politics at the beginning.
#universalincome #NickSrnicek #AlexWilliams #postcapitalism #FolkPolitics
Nick Dyer-Witheford on biocommunism, "a communism emerging from the catastrophes capital now inflicts throughout the bios, the realm of life itself". Future Histories International Find all English episodes of Future Histories here: https://futurehistori...
Is There Any Point to Protesting?
... In “Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work” (Verso), a book published in 2015, then updated and reissued this past year for reasons likely to be clear to anyone who has opened a newspaper, Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams question the power of marches, protests, and other acts of what they call “folk politics.” These methods, they say, are more habit than solution. Protest is too fleeting. It ignores the structural nature of problems in a modern world. “The folk-political injunction is to reduce complexity down to a human scale,” they write. This impulse promotes authenticity-mongering, reasoning through individual stories (also a journalistic tic), and a general inability to think systemically about change. In the immediate sense, a movement such as Occupy wilted because police in riot gear chased protesters out of their spaces. But, really, the authors insist, its methods sank it from the start by channelling the righteous sentiments of those involved over the mechanisms of real progress....
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08/21/is-there-any-point-to-protesting
#NickSrnicek #AlexWilliams #InventingTheFuture #PostCapitalism #PoliticalProtest #PoliticalChange
Book Review: Inventing the Future
Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams’ illuminating and radical new book Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work is as ambitious and global as its title implies. It looks at the political left’s ‘emancipatory visions’ to date with the notion of technology as a liberating tool. It notes the changes brought about in democracy through the internet and social media giving voice to individuals around the world, but still maintains that this democracy is ‘in disrepair’. ...
http://www.thestateofthearts.co.uk/features/book-review-inventing-the-future/
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