Chicago Platypus chapters at The School of the Art Institue of Chicago, University of Chicago, Loyola University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago
Archive for May, 2010
WHAT IS LEFT, AND WHERE TO BEGIN?
Saturday and Sunday: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 112 S. Michigan Ave. The Platypus Affiliated Society is proud to announce its second annual international convention, What is Left, and where to begin? Platypus has organized four days of activities. Starting on Wednesday May 26th with a film screening at University of Chicago’s Woodlawn [...]
Women the Longest Revolution: A Teach-In by Chris Cutrone
Platypus presents: Tuesday, May 18th 8:00 PM 5710 S. Woodlawn Featuring a presentation by Chris Cutrone on Juliet Mitchell’s “Women: The longest revolution” (1966) Join us for dinner and discussion “Socialism will be a process of change, of becoming. A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense ahistorical. . . . As [...]
Adorno’s political relevance today: A teach-in led by Chris Cutrone.
The Platypus Affiliated Society at Woodlawn Collaborative present… When:Saturday, May 8 1:30pm – 3:00pm. Where: Woodlawn Collaborative 6400 S. Kimbark Ave., John Knox Hall. The German Marxist critical theorist Theodor W. Adorno (1903-69) is known, along with his friend and mentor Walter Benjamin, for the critique of mid-20th century art and culture. What is less well [...]