Enlightenment Hearts
Enlightenment Hearts is a group of reading enthusiasts who meet once a week to read and discuss an essay of their interest. The idea of reading together is that we can help each other to better understand the text. Each member is asked to read the text prior to the meeting and at the meeting we will read the text out loud allowing anyone the possibility to interrupt the reading to comment or ask questions. No one is an expert but together we will straighten out the question marks. Remember, one does not have to understand everything in the text, or the author, beforehand in order to come along, enough just to have read it through once.
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PURPLE 14.02.2012 Enlightenment Hearts reads: ‘Psychadelics in the Age of Intelligent Machines’ by: Terence McKenna
BLUE 07.02.2012 Enlightenment Hearts reads: ‘Populism and the Empowering Circulation of Myths’ by: Yves Citton
GREEN 31.01.2012 Enlightenment Hearts reads a chapter from: ‘Human Condition’ (Action) by: Hanna Arendt
YELLOW 24.01.2012 Enlightenment Hearts reads: ‘Art Without Work’ by: Anton Vidokle
ORANGE 17.01.2012 Enlightenment Hearts reads:’Feminist Engagement with Matter’ by: Myra J. Hird
RED 10.01.2012 Enlightenment Hearts reads: ‘Ecology of Practice and Technology of Belonging’ by: Isabelle Stengers—————————————————–Season 3 (Pasta Season)—————————————————–
06.12.2011 Enlightenment Hearts seasonal final!!! Deconstruction of a pasta season, Jacques Derrida film from 2003 to be screened and a cut up session of texts read in the season.
22.11.2011 Enlightenment Hearts reads: ‘Stanzas’ chapters 7,8 and 9 by: Georgio Agamben
09.11.2011 Enlightenment Hearts reads: ‘Potentiality’ by: Georgio Agamben
18.10.2011 + 25.10.2011 Enlightenment Hearts reads: ‘The Great Caliban -The Struggle Against the Rebel Body’ by: Silvia Federici (2005)
11.10.2011 Enlightenment Hearts reads: ‘Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspectives’, pp. 575–599, 1988 by: Donna Haraway
04.10.2011 Enlightenment Hearts reads: ‘Inspiration’ by: Peter Sloterdijk
20.09.2011 Enlightenment Hearts reads: ‘What Is an Apparatus?’ by: Giorgio Agamben
14.09.2011 Enlightenment Hearts reads: ‘Is it Possible to Reconstruct the Research Process – Sociology of a Brain Peptide’ by: Bruno Latour
31.08.2011 Enlightenment Hearts reads: ‘The Good of Work’ by: Liam Gillick—————————————————–Season 2 (Pina Colada Season)—————————————————–
19.07.2011 Enlightenment Hearts reads: ‘Politics of Affects – Transversal Conviviality’ by: Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez
19.07.2011 Enlightenment Hearts reads: ‘What is an author’ by: Michelle Foucault
12.07.2011 Enlightenment Hearts reads: ‘Politics and passions the stakes of democracy’ by: Chantal Mouffe
05.07.2011 Enlightenment Hearts reads a chapter from: ‘For space’ (Slices through space) by: Doreen Massey
14.06.2011 Enlightenment Hearts reads a chapter from: ‘Are prisons obsolete?’ (Imprisonment and Reform) by: Angela Davis
07.06.2011 Enlightenment Hearts reads: ‘Smuggling -An Embodied criticality’ by: Irit Rogoff
31.05.2011 Enlightenment Hearts reads a chapter from: ‘Fish Story’ by: Allan Sekula
16.05.2011 Enlightenment Hearts reads a chapter from: ‘The Visible & The Invisible’ pp. 130-55 in the 1968 translation by: Merleau Ponty
10.05.2011 Enlightenment Hearts reads a chapter from: ‘The Practice Of Everyday Life’ by: Michel de Certeau
03.05.2011 Enlightenment Hearts reads a chapter from: ‘Invisible Cities’ by: Italo Calvino
26.04.2011 Enlightenment Hearts reads a chapter from: ‘Regulating Aversion’ (Tolerance As a Discourse of Depoliticization) by: Wendy Brown
12.04.2011 Enlightenment Hearts reads: ‘The Scene of a Flight’ by: Georges Perec
05.04.2011 Enlightenment Hearts reads: ‘Pierre Menard’ by: Jorge Luis Borges—————————————————–Season 1 (Soup Season)—————————————————–
29.03.2011 Enlightenment Hearts reads: ‘Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory’ by: Judith Butler
22.03.2011 Enlightenment Hearts reads the conclusion from: ‘Difference Repetition’ by: Gilles Deleuze
15.03.2011 Enlightenment Hearts reads a chapter from: ‘Difference Repetition’ by: Gilles Deleuze
08.03.2011 Enlightenment Hearts reads a chapter from: ‘Architecture from the outside’ (The Great Caliban
The Struggle Against the Rebel Body) by: Elizabeth Grosz
01.03.2011 Enlightenment Hearts reads two chapter from: ‘The Telephone Book’ (The Televisual Metaphysics and Derrida to Freud) by: Avital Ronell
22.02.2011 Enlightenment Hearts reads: ‘Mirror Stage, as formative of the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience’ by: Jacques Lacan
15.02.2011 Enlightenment Hearts reads: ‘Specific Objects’ by Donald Judd
08.02.2011 Enlightenment Hearts reads: ‘The Primacy of Perception and Its Philosophical Consequences’ by: Maurice Merleau-Ponty
01.02.2011 Enlightenment Hearts reads: A chapter from the book ‘Violence’ by: Slavoj Zizek
25.01.2011 Enlightenment Hearts reads: ‘Immaterial Labour’ by: Maurizio Lazzarato
18.01.2011 Enlightenment Hearts reads: A chapter from ‘Being and Time’ by Martin Heidegger
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*****SEASONAL 3 FINAL*****
Music and fun, spilled glögg and some nuts on the floor. Slippery surface, cold face and a bit of bumbs on the road—–advent is here! and Enlightenment hearts are finishing off theseason a session of deconstruction..
The last supper will be served, it will be yet again PASTA!
This was not the regular Enlightenment meeting rather a practical pyssel-deconstruction-session. All we read was put into action while the film of Derrida was flickering in the background. Text were brought and made into philosophy-origami-decoration.. It was beautiful and as Valerie Solanas would put it. CUT EM UP!
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Season 2 (Pina Colada Season)
“Enlightenment Hearts, Cooking Compendium issue#2 Melted Ice-cream, why is there sand in my Pina Colada?” is the compendium for the summer period 2011.
It has been put together by E-Hearts members and contains the essay read while sun tanning. Each contribution is accomplished with a suitable drink as well as notes, therefore functioning as a notebook of this period. A note is the in between text, the unconscious text, the private text that one does not show and or the text that ketches ones thoughts for the larger text, a support structure.
“Enlightenment Hearts, Cooking Compendium issue#2 Melted Ice-cream, why is there sand in my Pina Colada?” is a chance to relive the memories of ice cream, discursive politics and swimming in sea!
In other words: don’t drink and drive! drink and read!
Enjoy.
Drinks:
1. Lime Zirma
2. Juniper-Beer
3. Seaweed (Sekula version)
4. Embodied Vodka
5. Equality Drink
6. Toddy ala Cognac Kürbis
7. Shandy (Shandygaff)
“Drink with care”
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Season 1 (Soup Season)
Download:
Enlightenment Hearts, Cooking Compendium#1 -its a soup!
Please note that the file is 17 mb large. In order to download: right click/ctrl click (mac) and choose “download linked file”. Alternative view the pdf online.
Recipes:
1. Potaje de Garbanzos – a chickpea stew or soup
2. Immaterial Curried Lentil Soup- No Work, No Soul, No Soup
3. Zuppa di Patate, Zucchini, e Menta
4. Potato Leek Perception
5. Thai Coconut Curry Lentil Soup c/o Healthy Living Blog
6. Verdens Beste Suppe (Som Er En Kremet Gulrotsuppe)
7. Authentic French Onion Soup Courtesy of Julia Child
8. Green Pea Soup
9. Sweet Potato Carrot Soup
10. I would like some carrots with my ginger
11. Butternut Squash soup
“Receipts and essays in a mixed bowl.”
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