All of our programs, classes, and goings-on for the year
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ROSA Programming
Year 1
Lectures & Discussios: Saturdays, 10am @ Redbud Books
Our first year covers key movements, thinkers, and struggles of revolutionary history, mapping the global rise of capital from the European bourgeoisie’s seizure of political power to global attempts to overcome capitalism through present-day rebellions against white supremacist policing and state power.
To learn more and see the curriculum, visit our ROSA Year 1 page.
Materialism Reading Group
Thursdays, 7:30pm @ Redbud Books
A long-term, hybrid in-person and online reading group in memory of our beloved friend, Joshua Clover inspired by Joshua’s understanding of communism, and social transformation.
Our itinerary begins with Riot Strike Riot (Clover) and works backward through Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System (Arrighi and silver ), The Eclipse And Re-emergence Of The Communist Movement(Dauvé and Martin), The Arcana Of Reproduction (Fortunati, Trans Austin and Colantuono), Notes On Dialectics (James), Capital V I (Marx, Trans Reitter or Fowkes) and then returns to the present for The Future of Revolution (Bernes).
If people agree the group will be run as a discussion by rotating facilitators. It could last 18 months or so. We will begin Thursday, September 11 at 7:30.
To join and/or receive Zoom link to attend, please write to us at rosabloomington@proton.me and include “MATERIALISM” in the subject line.
Year 2
Lecture: Fridays, 6pm @ Redbud Books
Discussion: Fridays, 6pm @ The Overlook (611 W 12th St.)
Our second year provides an opportunity to dive deeper into the ideas and movements explored in the first year, examining historical revolutionary struggles with an emphasis on what the social theories immanent to each revolutionary movement have to teach us about the contemporary situation. We will also explore how the process by which parties to previous struggles arrived at their self-understandings helps us to come to our own understanding of how we will abolish the society we need to abolish. Finally, and most importantly, we will ask ourselves what skills we will need to develop in order to see this adventure through.
To learn more and see the curriculum, visit our ROSA Year 2 page.
“We are committed to the idea that study is what you do with other people. It’s talking and walking around with other people, working, dancing, suffering, some irreducible convergence of all three, held under the name of speculative practice.”
Fred Moten
Bloomington 