When a local Wellington council candidate was asked to name a Wellington artist and answered “fish and chips”, it felt like her answer spoke to a wider erosion of cultural memory the infrastructures that sustain critical thought. Add to this the gutting of art history in schools, and we’re left with a serious question - what happens to a country when critical thinking is treated as expendable?

COMMODE is hosting a small, intimate critical theory reading group. Six participants will gather monthly to read and discuss short extracts from theories of power, care, biopolitics, queer temporality and decolonisation. Together we’ll explore how power operates and how resistance imagines otherwise.

The reading group is a space for slow reading, shared reflection, collective thought, and a commitment to sustaining intellectual and political life.

Details:
6 participants maximum (initially)
Monthly, 2 hours at COMMODE (Pōneke based for now)
Snacks and provocations provided

Email info@commode.co.nz to register your interest.

Our first meet will be in the first week of November.