To honor the spooky season people from PhilAnon are watching a documentary on the 90's Norwegian Black Metal Scene, called Until the Light Takes Us. The documentary is not any more of a music documentary than it is a true crime documentary so even if you have absolutely zero interest in extreme music genres you will definitely get something out of watching it. Besides just being an intriguing and bizarre story, the film does actually offer food for the philosophical mind regarding aesthetics, politics, religion and more. A content warning is in order: the film is about racists who burn down churches and these people are interviewed. Murder and suicide are also discussed in the film. 

Anyway, at 7 tonight we will be watching it in that building that looks like a movie theater just across from commons in the first lecture hall on the left when you enter the building. 

Thanks

Phil

Phil

We have meetings every Wednesday at 230 in PAHB 229. We are gonna talk about something spooky this week. Lieutenant Dan will provide further details later in the week.

Sincerely Yours

Phil

Thomas

Our good friend, Vanessa Capuano, has reserved Philosophers Anonymous a meeting space in PAHB 229 on Wednesdays at 2:30 because she is rad. Also, If any fellow students want to join the discord this is a link. The first meeting will be on August 31st.

Thanks again Vanessa

Tom

Hello friends

At the first meeting we'll be discussing what we want the future of PhilAnon to be.

We will be sharing our current philosophical and broader intellectual interests. 

We'll be brainstorming potential events and topics of discussion. 

We'll be discussing how to publicize the group and broaden the group's presence on campus.

Hello 

We will be looking at a short interview with Milton Friedman about libertarianism, followed by a brief history of Chile under the Pinochet dictatorship, and then watching a short lecture by Werner Bonefeld about the German ordoliberal economists of the 1920's and 1930's, Adam Smith and the relationship between the state and the free economy. This should take about an hour and then we have another hour to discuss what we've looked at until we fight or fall asleep.

Thomas 

Thanks to everyone for attending Wednesday's meeting to discuss our individual plans for the future. This upcoming Wednesday, Claire, our resident Gender and Women's Studies major, will be guiding us through a presentation on gender and its relation to ones personal identity and self-understanding. I am super grateful to Claire for volunteering her expertise on this topic in the midst of the apocalypse of finals week. Don't panic everyone. We shall all emerge from this nightmare no matter how mutilated and numb we will be on the other side. 

Horns be with you

Thomas

I want to thank everybody that helped in some way with Daniel's event, Matthew, Lucero, Cameron and Daniel himself. It was super rad for Daniel to take the initiative to share ideas he was stoked on with the rest of the group. We should all be like that. Also I want to thank everyone for attending and opening their mind to some challenging ideas despite the nasty god-forsaken rain. I appreciate it and I am sure Daniel does as well.

This Wednesday the discussion will be about our future plans as individuals. What goals are worth pursuing? How would we like to live the rest of our lives? We will be discussing why we think philosophy is worth studying and what impact it has made on our lives and how we will engage with philosophy in the future. 

I enjoy discussing things in the negative as well because it feels more open ended. What future plans do we not have? What goals or not worth pursuing? How do we not want to live? 

 

It will be a discussion heavy meeting so be thinking of the type of questions you would like to ask your classmates and the questions you would like to be asked. Think of what answers you might provide if asked about what you want in your future.

Tom

Several members have expressed a desire to take a break from PhilAnon this week. Therefore I feel completely comfortable exploiting our usual meeting time to feature a 20 minute documentary about the life and politics of socialist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg, one of the most important figures of 20th century Europe murdered by the proto-Nazi Freikorps in 1919. We will then watch an interview with the editor of Luxemburg's multi-volume collected works, Peter Hudis, that explores her thought in greater depth. Important for discussion will be the ways Luxemburg's politics contrast with those of Leninism and Social Democracy, the relationship between capitalism, socialism and democracy, as well as what it means to live passionately and bravely in the service of human emancipation. 

Nobody has to be a deranged soap box street preacher like myself. Nobody has to think like I think. This is a free discussion for all minds. Lets boogie. 

Your Lord and Savior

Thomas Christ