Grief has something to do with air
Satellite images mean nothing to the human soul. They exist to distance you from me, my fellow kin. They have deliberately killed...
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Ernaux and de Beauvoir - Youth, Sex and Writing
This reading group begins in late July and assumes familiarity with Annie Ernaux’s writings. We will delve into Simone de Beauvoir’s The...
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An Apprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures – Reading Group 2
This reading group starts in July. After reading Lispector’s “The Book of Pleasures” and Deleuze’s “Coldness and Cruelty,” we meet to...
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Clarice Lispector Reading Group 1 - An Apprenticeship or the Book of Pleasures
This reading group is an extension of the first one. We have read Annie Ernaux’s A Girl’s Story and Simple Passion and Clarice...
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On the (Im)possibilities of Touch: Clarice Lispector and Annie Ernaux's Affective Reading Contracts
“Now I know: I’m alone. I and my freedom that I don’t know how to use. Great responsibility of solitude. Whoever isn’t lost doesn’t know...
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The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis - Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh's "The Nutmeg's Curse" dives deep into the dark waters of Dutch colonial history, unearthing the roots of modern ecological...
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Next Reading Groups
Spinoza and the Matter: This reading group will focus on Spinoza's Ethics and the nonhuman matter of the participants' choice. The dates...
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Re-visiting Jean-Paul Sartre’s “No Exit”: Hell is (not) Other People, Hell is an Event
Currently I am working on writing about and feeling hell. In meantime please enjoy The Garden of Earthly Delights by Jheronimus Bosch....
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The Great Derangement - Amitav Ghosh
‘The Great Derangement – Climate Change and the Unthinkable’ by Amitav Ghosh; University of Chicago Press, 2016 “Climate change-...
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Annie Ernaux & Clarice Lispector Reading Group *FULL*
The Annie Ernaux and Clarice Lispector Reading Group delves into themes of desire, passion, death, shame, and the affirmation of being...
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