Friday, 4 January 2022

20:00 (08:00 pm) - Greetings, Salutations, Invocation w/David

21:00 (09:00 pm) - Evening Schedule and Community Shart Outs

Quick review of the evening schedule followed by whomever would like to do a shart out about…

22:00 (10:00 pm) - A Guided Tour of the Twilight Zone w/Prof. Jon

23:00 (11:00 pm) - Twilight Zone Double Feature w/Prof. Jon

Saturday, 5 January 2022

00:00 (00:00 am) - R. D. Laing Knots Reading and Discussion Plus Painting Show and Tell w/Char Truce

Bring art supplies if you want to draw or paint along.

01:00 (01:00 am) - Last Chance for Recycled News for Andy Brown w/Rodrigo Saldaña Zárate

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Morning Session⌗

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10:00 (10:00 am) - Reading: The Great Class War 1914-1918 w/Falco

This weeks' reading, chapter 12: The End of Politics

11:00 (11:00 am) - More Marxist Something, Something w/Prof. Ann Li

Read latest on DailyKos, other reading materials can be found on the Discord under #files and #marxism channels.

Afternoon Session⌗

12:00 (12:00 pm) - Hammer and Sickle w/Andy, DPA, Falco and Sarah

On hammer this week: carving sunflowers, petting porcupines. As always you’re fixit/buildit/hackit/designit quandaries/solutions take precedence! AND outside the shop today, I chanced upon a svelte woodchuck, fresh from his hibernation diet retreat beneath the shop, who reminded me that Sickle (garden talk) must also emerge from it’s winter slumber to greet the spring!

13:00 (01:00 pm) - More Hammer and Sickle

14:00 (02:00 pm) - FU Left Book Union: The Crying of Lot 49

I will be doing a series of readings leading up to the Feb 5 discussion of The Crying of Lot 49. Today I will start reading the essay Pynchon, JFK and the CIA: Magic Eye Views of The Crying of Lot 49.

16:00 (04:00 pm) - Joe in Norway Attempts to Slay a Dragon

An eggplant (aubergine) dragon that is. In an attempt to take his wok skills up a notch, Joe will attempt to slay the famed Eggplant Dragon as the incredible Chef Wang demonstrates here. To make things even more challenging he’ll make it outdoors in the sleet and snow, weather permitting of course.

Evening Session⌗

17:00 (05:00 pm) - Ukraine, Jan 6, T***p, book banning, a talk by the historian Heather Cox Richardson w/Saul Youssef

18:00 (06:00 pm) - What the hell is going on in Hungary, part 2 w/Anna Lakatos

19:00 (07:00 pm) - Course: Jewish and Muslim Parables and Philosophical Fictions w/Prof. Adnan Husain

Read more information about the course.

Session 3: Abraham/Ibrahim - Reason and Revelation in Scripture, Parables, Commentary and Interpretation.

Adamson, p. 3-76, 91-97, 113-139

Al Farabi, “The Attainment of Happiness,” Al-Farabi’s Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle, tr. Muhsin Mahdi (NY: MacMillan, 1962), p. 41-50 (section 4).

Avicenna (Ibn Sina), On the Soul: The Floating Man, various excerpts (c. 1020-1037).

Al-Samaw’al al-Maghribi, Silencing the Jews, ed. Tr. M. Perlmann, Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research 32 (1964), p. 74-88. (autobiographical conversion narrative)

Syllabus and reading materials can be found in the #files Discord channel.

20:30 (08:30 pm) - The Wind Down with David Feldman

Note: all times are EST.

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