In March We Remember

Thoughts About Peace in a Time of War

New York City, March 8, 2006

An event of contemporary concert music, poetry readings, and visual images, with showcases of several independent publishers including Seven Stories Press, The New Press, Akashic Books, Verso Books, and Autonomedia.

Participant artists include composers Frederic Rzewski, Elias Tanenbaum, composer/performers Kristin Norderval and Philip Wharton in collaboration with Ensemble π, led by pianist Idith Meshulam.

Poetry readings by Charles Bernstein, Carolee Schneemann and Peter Lamborn Wilson.

Visual images selected from the archives of the art critic David Levi Strauss.

The event is made possible by the support of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Edward T. Cone Foundation, and Cooper Union.

Anonymous writes:

First General Assembly of New York Metro Anarchist Alliance

New York City, March 4, 2006

Calling all anarchists, anti-authoritarians, grass-roots anti-capitalists, and fellow travellers!

The New York Metro Alliance of Anarchists is holding its very first General Assembly and you're invited.

Time: Saturday, March 4th, 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Place: Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center (107 Suffolk Street, corner of Rivington Street), second floor.

NYMAA is a new anarchist organization that has been formed in response to the isolation, stagnation, and frustration felt by many anarchists and anti-authoritarians who live in the New York metropolitan area. We feel that in order for anarchism to truly spread and take root, anarchists need to band together for the purpose of initiating and nurturing a wide range of revolutionary projects. Our aim is to build a genuine culture of liberation and resistance that will ultimately be capable of rejecting the brutality of authoritarianism and domination.

As our organization is still in its infancy, the main function of this first General Assembly will be to bring people together in the same room in order to propose and begin concrete, coordinated anarchist activity through the formation of project-based working groups and geographically-based local unions. There will be ample time allotted for both casual socializing and facilitated discussion. Food and drink, as well as childcare, will be provided.

You can read more about NYMAA and familiarize yourself with its basic organizational structure (we strongly encourage this) at: http://www.anarco-nyc.net/nymaa.html

Proposals and other agenda items for the General Assembly are welcome. Please e-mail them along with any RSVPs (especially if you're bringing kids) to: nycfed-owner@lists.riseup.net

If you're unable to attend this General Assembly, we will be holding another one on April 8, so keep your eyes peeled for that announcement.

"Young Marx's Theory of Revolution"

Michael Lowy

New York City, Feb. 24, 2006

Marxist Theory Colloquium at NYU

Place: (due to continuing strike at NYU) UAW Local 2179 (not the same union hall as in the Fall) 400 Lafayette Street (one block east of Broadway, between Astor Place and 4th Street nearer to 4th Street), 4th Floor Conf. Room NYC - l0003.

[#6 to Astor Pl.; R/W to 8th St.; B, D, F, V to B'way–Lafayette]

Date/Time — Friday, Feb. 24th — 4:00 pm

Seaker — Michael Lowy

Research Director in Sociology at the National Center of ScientificResearch (CNRS), Paris, France; one of France’s and probably one of the world’s most important Marxist scholars and thinkers; author of numerous books, several of which have been translated into English, including Theory of Revolution in the Young Marx; Lukacs, From Romanticism to Revolution, and On Changing the World: Essays in Political Philosophy From Karl Marx to Walter Benjamin.

TOPIC: “Young Marx’s Theory of Revolution”

JTC writes:

"Writing the Future\Reading the Self"

Horst Hutter

New York City, Feb. 11, 2006

The Nietzsche Circle with the support of Mercy Manhattan College presents

"Writing the Future\Reading the Self"
A Talk by Horst Hutter

to celebrate the release of his new work,Shaping the Future: Nietzsche’s New Regimes of the Soul

Moderted by Rachel Sotos, New School University


At this event, Horst Hutter will explore Nietzsche’s usage and advocacy of reading and writing as ascetic techniques of self-shaping. Mr. Hutter argues that Nietzsche did not consider writing to be the same as philosophy, but that reading and writing were instruments of philosophy. Philosophy itself is a striving for wisdom and for self-transformation to which reading and writing are important but not the only means.


Nietzsche is identified as a late heir of a long tradition of writing the self, in which the formation of personal identities involved references to interpretations of texts authoritative within the tradition. He was raised within a worldview based on a religion of the book. He was trained within the Christian religion of the book to become an exegetical mediator between textual authority and the shaping of personal identities. However, he came to experience Christian identity, both in himself and in his culture, as a structure that was disintegrating into decadence and nihilism. He diagnosed this process of disintegration as a general malaise of which his own dis-ease was a symptom and focal point. Understanding himself as a decadent, he also understood himself as possessing within himself the means for overcoming decadence and thus to move toward the “great health”. In his effort to heal himself and to become the philosophical therapist of his culture, he saw that convalescence required first a deconstruction of old modes of self and identity, to be followed secondly by envisioning new forms of selfhood. This required an attack on those historical figures that he perceived to be at the origin of the Christian written self, namely Jesus and St. Paul, as well as Socrates and Plato. His war for a new healing culture thus required a dislodging of these figures as founding icons of decadent Socratism and decadent Christianity.


Nietzsche’s problem was that he had to become his own Plato to his own Socrates, as well as, and to a lesser extent, his own evangelist to his own Jesus. He had to recover the orality that lay at the origin of a powerful tradition of writing. Moreover, he had to do this in writing. This in turn required him to develop new styles of writing in which the author Nietzsche would imitate and supplant the authority of St. Paul and of Plato. His aphoristic books are meant to move beyond the Platonic dialogues, and his Zarathustra is the “fifth gospel” meant to replace St. Paul and the evangelists. Thereby he hoped to initiate a new authoritative tradition in which books had to carry readers beyond all books. Free spirited disciples of Nietzsche are exhorted to use his books to deconstruct themselves and then to move toward new versions of selfhood beyond books. Reading Nietzsche then is to move toward an explicit affirmation of oneself in amor fati, based on an implicit No to one’s slavish features.

Saturday, February 11th at 7 PM
Mercy Manhattan College

66 W 35th St, Rm. 704 (near Broadway)

Admission: $5

http://nietzschecircle.com"