Occupied Coast Salish Territory (Vancouver)

Nihilist Reading Group: Its Core is the Negation

7:00pm
- 9:00pm
Thursday November 13 2014

Reading group zine:
By :Alejandro de Acosta
Its core is the negation

First Paragraph:::
I have always considered my inclination to anarchy to be irreducible to a politics. Anarchist commitments run deeper. They are more intimate, concerning supposedly personal or private matters; but they also overflow the instrumental realm of getting things done. Over time, I have shifted from thinking that anarchist commitments are more than a politics to thinking that they are something other than a politics. I continue to return to this latter formulation. It requires thinking things through, not just picking a team; it is more difficult to articulate and it is more troubling to our inherited common sense.[1] I do not think I am alone in this. It has occurred to some of us to register this feeling of otherness by calling our anarchist commitments an ethics. It has also occurred to some of us to call these commitments anti-political. I think these formulations are, for many of us, implicitly interlinked, though hardly interchangeable. What concerns me here in the main is the challenge of what it could mean to live out our commitments as an ethics—though I think the relevance of this thinking to anti-politics will be clarified as well.

Link:
http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alejandro-de-acosta-its-core-is-the-negation

Taking place on unceded and occupied Coast Salish Territory