Saya sedang mempersiapkan sekaligus menginisiasi proyek jangka panjang tentang Pusat Studi Antroposen (PSA). Sedangkan Regu Baca Materialisme Baru merupakan bagian dari proyek PSA di masa depan yang berjalan secara paralel dengan agenda-agenda PSA ke depannya, seperti Baca-Baca Random (BBR) yang telah tayang di youtube bersama Sosiawan Permadi dan Gilang Mahadika sebagai pemantik diskusi.
Selanjutnya, Regu Baca Materialisme Baru (RBMB) dibentuk dalam rangka mewadahi teman-teman pembaca (readers) yang sedang tertarik mendalami isu-isu Materialitas dalam kajian Marxisme, Filsafat Berorientasi Objek, Pos-kontinental, dan tentunya isu Antroposen Berorientasi Filsafat. RBMB bukanlah merupakan kelas kuliah atau kursus filsafat yang memberikan pengantar atau bertujuan untuk memberikan materi pengajaran bagi awam. RBMB ditujukan bagi mereka yang memiliki komitmen untuk membaca dengan serius, kritis, dan tentunya menyenangkan.
Agenda RBMB dengan topik Antroposen Bulan September-Oktober 2024:
Pertama, Reading Spinoza in the Anthropocene (2024) karya Genevieve Lloyd, dipantik oleh Albertus Arioseto Bagas Pangestu.
Kamis, 19 September 2024, BAB 1-2 (Pengantar Spinoza)
Kamis, 26 September 2024, BAB 2-5 (Spinoza dan Pikiran)
Kamis, 3 Oktober 2024, BAB 6-8 (Spinoza dan Antroposen).
Regu Baca Antroposen/Materialisme Baru dimulai setiap Kamis (tentatif), berbeda dengan Baca-Baca Random (setiap Selasa/Rabu Malam). Regu Baca Materialisme Baru dilaksanakan setiap Kamis Siang 14.00-16.00 WIB, secara daring (link GoogleMeet)/luring, Lt 5 Ruang Jurnal Filsafat, Fakultas Filsafat, UGM.
Pertemuan Selanjutanya (Future Meeting), Oktober-November 2024.
The Logic of Gilles Deleuze Basic Principles (2020) karya Corry Shores [Pemantik: Gloria Bayu].
Apabila ada ide bacaan menarik lainnya, langsung saja email ke mahaswa@ugm.ac.id.
List Bacaan Sebelumnya di Program Baca-Baca Random :
- Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism (Kohei Saito, 2023), pemantik Rangga & Sosi. (September-Oktober 2023)
- Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto (Aaron Bastani, 2018), pemantik Rangga & Sosi. (November-Desember 2023)
- Critiquing Capitalism Today New Ways to Read Marx (Frederick Harry Pitts, 2018), pemantik Sosi & Rangga. (Desember 2023-Februari 2024)
- The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (David Graeber & David Wengrow, 2021). Pemantik Gilang & Rangga (Maret-April 2024)
- The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence (Matteo Pasquinelli, 2023), pemantik Rangga, Sosi, & Ainu. Sedang Berlangsung (Maret, Juni, & September 2024).
- The Parallax View (Slavoj Žižek, 2009), pemantik Novan (Upcoming event, Oktober 2024).
Mahaswa's Thought 
Re: “The Dawn of Everything”
Unfortunately, that book lacks credibility and depth.
In fact “The Dawn of Everything” is a biased disingenuous account of human history (https://www.persuasion.community/p/a-flawed-history-of-humanity & https://offshootjournal.org/untenable-history/) that spreads fake hope (the authors of “The Dawn” claim human history has not “progressed” in stages, or linearly, and must not end in inequality and hierarchy as with our current system… so there’s hope for us now that it could get different/better again). As a result of this fake hope porn it has been widely praised. It conveniently serves the profoundly sick industrialized world of fakes and criminals. The book’s dishonest fake grandiose title shows already that this work is a FOR-PROFIT, instead a FOR-TRUTH, endeavour geared at the (ignorant gullible) masses.
Fact is human history since the dawn of agriculture has “progressed” in a linear stage (the “stuck” problem, see below), although not before that (https://www.focaalblog.com/2021/12/22/chris-knight-wrong-about-almost-everything ). This “progress” has been fundamentally destructive and is driven and dominated by “The 2 Married Pink Elephants In The Historical Room” (www.CovidTruthBeKnown.com or https://www.rolf-hefti.com/covid-19-coronavirus.html) which the fake hope-giving authors of “The Dawn” entirely ignore naturally (no one can write a legitimate human history without understanding and acknowledging the nature of humans). And these two married pink elephants are the reason why we’ve been “stuck” in a destructive hierarchy and unequal 2-class system , and will be far into the foreseeable future (the “stuck” question — “the real question should be ‘how did we get stuck?’ How did we end up in one single mode?” or “how we came to be trapped in such tight conceptual shackles” — [cited from their book] is the major question in “The Dawn” its authors never really answer, predictably).
Worse than that, the Dawn authors actually promote, push, propagandize, and rationalize in that book the unjust immoral exploitive criminal 2-class system that’s been predominant for millennia [https://nevermoremedia.substack.com/p/was-david-graeber-offered-a-deal]!
“All experts serve the state and the media and only in that way do they achieve their status. Every expert follows his master, for all former possibilities for independence have been gradually reduced to nil by present society’s mode of organization. The most useful expert, of course, is the one who can lie. With their different motives, those who need experts are falsifiers and fools. Whenever individuals lose the capacity to see things for themselves, the expert is there to offer an absolute reassurance.” —Guy Debord
A good example that one of the “expert” authors, Graeber, has no real idea on what world we’ve been living in and about the nature of humans is his last brief article on Covid where his ignorance shines bright already at the title of his article, “After the Pandemic, We Can’t Go Back to Sleep.” Apparently he doesn’t know that most people WANT to be asleep, and that they’ve been wanting that for thousands of years (and that’s not the only ignorant notion in the title) — see https://www.rolf-hefti.com/covid-19-coronavirus.html. Yet he (and his partner) is the sort of person who thinks he can teach you something authentically truthful about human history and whom you should be trusting along those terms. Ridiculous!
“The Dawn” is just another fantasy, or ideology, cloaked in a hue of cherry-picked “science,” served lucratively to the gullible ignorant public who craves myths and fairy tales.
“The evil, fake book of anthropology, “The Dawn of Everything,” … just so happened to be the most marketed anthropology book ever. Hmmmmm.” — Unknown
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Thx for your extended comment. I look forward to look further into this!
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