Date: January 5th 2009

1. Several new offerings!
2. Sorry about the broken emails
3. happy new year
4. New class proposals
5. Scheduled classes

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1. Several new offerings!
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There are several new classes being offered over the next couple of weeks, including the first of six by the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest; an Eve Sedgwick reading group; another fling with relational aesthetics; and the second meeting of the Marx class. We'll be having an event to officially open our (not so) new (anymore) space at 972B Chung King Road next weekend! Details soon.

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2. Sorry about the broken emails
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You may have noticed that the previous couple of emails were a little, um, redundant. Sorry about that! It won't happen again (hopefully).

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3. happy new year
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happy new year

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4. New class proposals
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non-commitment
http://thepublicschool.org/254/non-commitment/
I'm interested in thinking about this as a strategy. There are better words and parallel discussions, all of which we should raise. Some of the signposts for this topic might be Deleuze's comment to Negri that we need to create vacuoles of non-communication; the figures of the dilettante, the flaneur, the dandy, etc.; Barthes' strange book on The Neutral (I'm not even sure this is relevant, but it seems like it); the wonderful online [...]

building a band from the transistors up
http://thepublicschool.org/255/building-a-band-from-the-transistors-up/
My friend makes electric guitars and amplifiers and I'd love for him to teach a class where he could make us all appreciate transistors a little more by showing us how to build some awesome sounding instruments. That could be the end, but why stop there?

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5. Scheduled classes
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JAN 10 : Marx (1 meeting)
We will be reading the "Money" chapter for the second meeting of this class, watching David Harvey's video lecture on the subject, and then hopefully [...]

JAN 18 : Relational Aesthetics and Its Philosophy, Relationally (1 meeting)
This one-day course will discuss and engage with the various (specifically Deleuze & Guattari [D&G], Foucault, and Guattari) philosophical texts (all of them a chapter [...]

JAN 18 : Sedgwick: Touching Feeling (3 meetings)
This is a proposal for a reading group focused on Eve Sedgwick's Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (2003). Eve Sedgwick is often credited with birthing [...]

FEB 8 : Yo, Dick... Ad Feminem: When Ads Attack (1 meeting)
Whether it's through direct mail, radio commercials, towering billboards, or newspaper spots, cosmetic surgery advertisements, especially in Los Angeles, have become inescapable. These ads attack [...]