Monday⌗

24 November

8 pm - The Funny Hour

Bring your stand up and funny videos where the whole community participates.

Tuesday⌗

25 November

7-8:30 pm - The Red Hour

Join the us for a short story discussion. See #the-red-hour Discord channel for more information.

This week’s reading: The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex by Tobias Buckell

8:30 pm - Good News Everyone! w/Prof. Jon

Wednesday⌗

26 November

6 pm - Weekly Marx Office Hour(s) w/Ann Li

Reading: The Law of the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall

Join us for a daily topical conversation about cultural and political economic research subjects plus discussion about scholarly articles posted to the Discord.

(8:30 pm - Spirituality and Activism w/Texas Tom (separate Zoom)

Thursday⌗

27 November

5 pm - CinemaTAC: The Last Waltz w/Bruce

7 pm - Bring the News w/Whomever Brings It

If you come across an article or bit of news that you feel the group would find interesting read it aloud (or ask someone to) and open the floor to discussion.

9 pm - “Texas Tom” Webber’s Night Owl Roost (separate Zoom)

Friday⌗

28 November

3 pm - Office Hours w/Professor Adnan Husain

Office Hours 16-Haunting Futures: Big Tech and Resistance w/Syed Mustafa Ali

In this age of the machines and the oppression of the AI and algorithms, how can the human survive and even thrive? Dr. Syed Mustafa Ali, a radical computer scientist and decolonial scholar at the Open University-UK, joins us in Office Hours to provide anti-capitalist/anti-imperialist analysis of the racial regimes and colonizing constructs of Big Tech and the conceptual possibilities for resistance. Mustafa will illuminate how the spectres of Marx, Ludd and those “Other"ed haunt the big tech future while big tech futures haunt our present by attempting to foreclose alternative futures. This is the tech struggle of our time. Do we need a “Butlerian jihad”? Does science fiction, like Frank Herbert’s Dune series, point to Islamicate possibilities for resistance against the colonizing of big tech? What resources must we draw upon in political economy, political ecology and political theology? This is going to be a superb opportunity to engage key questions of the past, present and future. Join us!

To prepare, check out Dr. Syed Mustafa Ali’s fascinating recent article “A Butlerian Hauntology” in ReOrient, Journal of Critical Muslim Studies.

Professor Adnan A. Husain discusses a wide range of topics, hosts conversations and interviews guests, ranging from history, religion, left politics and thought, global affairs, especially on the Middle East and Islamic World, Sufism and Spirituality, Islamophobia and other forms of racism and religious bigotry, and even some culture, music, literature, and art.

7 pm - The After Hours Show S03E27

On tonight’s show:

8:30 pm - Open Dialogue

Due to the holiday, the rest of the evening is free-form.

A Guided Tour of Rod Serling’s Night Gallery w/Prof. Jon

CinemaTAC: Poker Face w/Travis

Saturday⌗

29 November

6:45 pm - Saturday Night Theatre: Anatomy of a Murder w/Susanna

I’ve got a gorgeous Blu-ray print of 1959 “Anatomy of a Murder” with James Stewart, George C. Scott, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara. Courtroom drama and major Oscar Contender. Introduction by Robert Osborne

9 pm - Bring the Music

Bring tunes you want to share, check #music Discord channel for this week’s theme.

Sunday⌗

30 November

2 pm - Art Attack Zoom Group w/Texas Tom (separate Zoom)

2 pm - Course: Oligarchy w/Class Unity

“The history of all hitherto existing societies,” Marx once wrote, “is the history of class struggle.” What if the central political form of our time is not democracy — the rule of the majority of people — but oligarchy — the rule of the few? This course examines the idea and structure of oligarchic power in theory, in history, and in contemporary practice. We’ll read political theorists and social scientists who have analyzed how wealth, status, and institutional control concentrate in the hands of a small elite even within ostensibly democratic societies. Core readings include Michael Parenti’s Democracy for the Few, G. William Domhoff’s Who Rules America?, and a selection of historical documents. We will trace how “national” concerns are invoked to justify decisions that primarily benefit dominant classes and will ask whether oligarchy today operates more through persuasion than coercion. We will also compare classical notions of aristocracy and plutocracy to modern networks of corporate, bureaucratic, and intelligence power.

5 pm - A Star Trek:The Next Generation Watch Party & Discussion w/Prof. Jon

? pm - Sunday Soul Social (Following Star Trek) w/Lane

This week: RIP Jimmy Cliff night.

Note: all times in ET.

Registration⌗

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