Dear all,

I hope, you are all doing well and that you are still interested in learning Arabic!

 

My name is Louloua. I'm from Egypt, Cairo. I study politics at the Potsdam University and I teach Classic Arabic at the SKB (Sprach- und Kulturbörse der TU berlin).

A friend of mine called Diego (interested in learning Arabic as well) encouraged me to give Arabic classes in the Public School Berlin. So here I am offering my services.

 

In order to organize it well I need to know from you the following:

1. Who is still interested in Arabic? (The larger the group is, the nicer is the atmosphere; better group dynamics according to my experience, language games are more fun in large groups)

2. What is your level in Arabic? (beginners, advanced,..)

3. What are your expextations? For example, do you want to learn slang (however it will be only the Egyptian slang) or classic Arabic? ...

 

Hello everybody, just wanted to send you some info about date and structure of the class. We start on both days (July 21 and July 22) at 3pm and end at about 7pm or later depending on the state of discussion and our endurance. Also, we could end the days with a bbq in the courtyard. Over the course of the two days, Claudia Becker and Rodrigo Novaes from the Vilém Flusser Archive as well as Paul Feigelfeld (Humboldt University Berlin, Institute for Media Theories) will guide us through readings of "The Crisis of Linearity", the unpublished essay "Imagination" and a chapter of Novaes’ recent English translation of a Portuguese version of the "Vampyroteuthis infernalis". The seminar will commence with a short screening of an interview with Vilém Flusser and a brief introduction to Flusser's life and work. Afterwards, the structure of the seminar is very simple: each of the short texts will be read out aloud and discussed along the way.

hello everybody, the flusser seminar will be held in collaboration with the flusser-archive of udk berlin and takes place on a weekend in the second half of july. The seminar will be facilitated by paul feigelfeld from hu berlin and claudia becker as well as rodrigo novaes from flusser-archive. the class will take place over the course of 2-days. On the first day we will read more well known texts of flusser and on the second day dig into his rarer work from the flusser-archive. the main language will be english but the class is supposed to be sort of bilingual so everybody is welcome to comment, question, talk in german, we will figure out the communication out together! the readings will be announced via the class notes soon. fiona

As promised, here are links to some general resources on Hegel and Marx: http://marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/index.htm http://marxists.org/archive/marx/index.htm happy reading.

Here's the link to Toscano's Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea:

http://aaaaarg.org/text/23938/fanaticism-uses-idea

 

 

hello there, tomorrow will be a lecture of flusser's Vampyroteuthis invernalis! at 3pm The Center for Endless Progress Berthelsdorfer Str 10 Berlin, Germany best fiona

I had unfortunately forgotten I would be out of town this weekend when we were scheduling classes, so I am looking forward to hearing some notes on how to proceed and what the 19th will look like, and will still be happy to contribute and supply readings as we go on, esp. if we decide to present on somewhat differing topics that we'll try to bring together in the "end." Bis bald!

dear all, in our last meeting we talked about the term of extraterritoriality in order to discuss possibilities how to act outside the art system. i would be happy to continue this in the final discussion of the class! we should decide the reading within the next days to give everybody enough time to prepare the next meeting on saturday, march 12. we could for example read a text by pascal gielen, which is dealing with the art scene as highly functional social-organizational form. you find the text here: http://aaaaarg.org/text/6715/art-scene-ideal-production-unit-economic-exploitation or http://www.mediafire.com/?zyiomwjmwmj what do you think? looking forward fiona

Hello Everybody,

This the final reading list for the class. We will focus on two texts during the class:

1. On making-visible strategies in the sciences:
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, "Making Visible. visualization in the sciences - and in exhibitions?" MPIWG preprint #399, pp. 9-22 (http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/Preprints/P399.PDF)

2. Chapter 6 on 'Abstract Machines' from 'A Thousand Machines' by Gerald Raunig, pgs. 100 - 108, (http://theanxiousprop.org/Case4_Texts/Raunig_1kMachines_Ch6.pdf)

 

 

We leave these links as references that might be of interest (We will post a text by Husserl on the origin of geometry in the next day or so):