- A Conversation of Care with Keith Hart
- AptArt Exhibition on Carnival and War
- Museum of Care x Real Democracy Movement
- Bullshit Jobs: A Reading Group
- Ongoing Reading Groups and talks
SELF IN THE WORLD: A CONVERSATION WITH KEITH HART
Self in the World: Connecting Life’s Extremes, Berghahn Books, 2022
We embark on two life journeys—one out into the world, the other inward to the self. Society is mysterious to us because it dwells inside us, mostly inaccessible to thought. Writing brings the two into a mutual understanding that we can share. Lived society may become exposed to introspection in this way. Fragments of experience could then be combined into a whole, a world as singular as the self. There are as many worlds as individual journeys. If there is only one world out there, each of us changes it whenever we move.
Join us as eminent anthropologist Keith Hart (credited with coining the terms ‘informal economy’ and ‘human economy’) as we move the world together, connecting life’s extremes in an exploratory conversation about the present, the past, a future composed of other worlds within our reach.
APT ART EXHIBITION ON CARNIVAL AND WAR
The second APT ART exhibition will focus on the relationship between Carnival and War. The world is changing too quickly and catastrophically. A dialogue-exhibition, a work in progress that should stretch over several months, this exhibition is a tool for collective discussion of what’s happening. Kick-off is scheduled for Friday 20th October 20:00 (London Time).
The previous exhibition, organised by the Museum of Care and the Museum of Unrest and curated by Clive Russell (This Ain’t Rock’n’Roll) and John Phillips (Paddington Printshop), explored ‘50 Years of Protest Posters in the UK’ (see picture above).
MUSEUM OF CARE X REAL DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT: THE STATE WE’RE IN
A collaboration between the Museum of Care and the Real Democracy Movement is taking place in the Collectivity Room of the Museum of Care. This project follows on the heels of a presentation by the International Friends of Ilyenkov in the Collectivity Room (A Talk on Ewald Vasilyevich Ilyenkov ‘Personality and Collective,’ April 27 2023) and will consist of at least two discussion sessions (it’s a work in progress).
The first discussion session, on 26th October 20:00 (London Time), is The State We’re In (Part 1): What is the State? Across the world people often try to use the powers they have been granted by the state to bring about social change. And sometimes they strive to go beyond the state to create autonomous enclaves. In this session facilitated by Corinna Lotz, Paul Feldman will discuss what is the contemporary state. A brief summary of some of David Graeber’s writings on the state will be given by one of Museum of Care’s members.
The second discussion session, on 23th November 20:00 (London Time), will be The State We’re In (Part 2): Social Progress in Chile With or Without the State? In this session, facilitated by Fiona Harrington, Fernando Quintana will discuss recent attempts to replace the Chilean constitution, originally imposed during the 1973 military coup in which General Augusto Pinochet replaced Chile’s first socialist president, Salvadore Allende. One of Museum of Care’s members will summarise some of David Graeber’s ideas of democracy and ask why did occupy refuse to respond to the demand to make demands?
BULLSHIT JOBS: A READING GROUP
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, Simon & Schuster, 2018
Is your job killing you? Do you feel the crush of spiritual violence when at work? Are you a duct-taper, box-ticker, taskmaster, flunky, or goon? Join us. Bullshit Jobs: A Reading Group, where your humanity will be restored. Curated by Steven Bachelor.
The series, starting on Thursday 16th November, will take place online on every third Thursday of the month as follows:
- 16 November 2023
- 21 December 2023
- 18 January 2024
- 15 February 2024
- 21 March 2024
- 18 April 2024
- 16 May 2024
ONGOING READING GROUPS
The Bhaskar reading group continues this month with its ninth session on Thursday 12th October 20:00 (London Time), while the third reading group session on Michael Hudson’s The Collapse of Antiquity will take place on Thursday 2nd November 20:00 (London Time).
It’s not too late to join one or both of these reading groups!
