Join Praxis Research in exploring and generating ideas about the social world through the thematic lenses of Resilience, Sanctuary, Sovereignty, Reconstructions, and Futures in the Philadelphia Assembled reading group. The readings are suggested but not required for full participation in the discussion.
Suggested Reading:
The Profound Emptiness of Resilience
Parul Sehgal
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Jc78jd0tVFUkQ1WDhKU1NzTWc/view?usp=sharing
Resilience is fleeting, adaptive, pragmatic — and it has become an obsession among middleclass parents who want to prepare their children to withstand a world that won’t always go their way. ‘‘Grit,’’ a close cousin of ‘‘resilience,’’ has emerged as education’s magic mantra — a corrective to decades of helicopter parenting. Sehgal explores the call for more 'resilience' as an attempt to quell popular political movement.
7 Pages
Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly: Introduction
Judith Butler
drive.google.com
Judith Butler applies her profoundly remarkable ideas on gender and' performativity' to understanding the nature and implications of public assembly—popular strikes, occupations, vigils and other mass movements—of what the sudden and mass assembly of bodies in public means for our understanding of the political, the personal, and human nature itself.
23 Pages
Suggested Reading:
The Profound Emptiness of Resilience
Parul Sehgal
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Jc78jd0tVFUkQ1WDhKU1NzTWc/view?usp=sharing
Resilience is fleeting, adaptive, pragmatic — and it has become an obsession among middleclass parents who want to prepare their children to withstand a world that won’t always go their way. ‘‘Grit,’’ a close cousin of ‘‘resilience,’’ has emerged as education’s magic mantra — a corrective to decades of helicopter parenting. Sehgal explores the call for more 'resilience' as an attempt to quell popular political movement.
7 Pages
Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly: Introduction
Judith Butler
drive.google.com
Judith Butler applies her profoundly remarkable ideas on gender and' performativity' to understanding the nature and implications of public assembly—popular strikes, occupations, vigils and other mass movements—of what the sudden and mass assembly of bodies in public means for our understanding of the political, the personal, and human nature itself.
23 Pages