LOUDREADERS SESSION 2


Luis Othoniel Rosa
June 20, 2020 1:00pm

WAI ARCHITECTURE THINK TANK  —   Cruz Garcia & Nathalie Frankowski
June 20, 2020 5:00pm



Loudreaders Session 2:
Introduction to Loudreaders
1:00pm EST

Luis Othoniel Rosa

Luis Othoniel Rosa will introduce the origins of the Lectores at the Tobacco factories and discuss the iconic role of Luisa Capetillo.
A discussion will explore alternative models of pedagogy, mutual aid, and solidarity. 

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Luis Othoniel Rosa (Puerto Rico, 1985) is the author of the novels Otra vez me alejo (Argentina, 2012) and Caja de fractales (Argentina/Puerto Rico 2017), and of the study Comienzos para una estética anarquista: Borges con Macedonio (Chile, 2016). His last novel has been translated as Down with Gargamel! (Argos Books, 2020). He studied at the University of Puerto Rico and holds a Ph.D. from Princeton. He teaches ar University of Nebraska.

https://elroommate.com/


References:

Download the readings mentioned in the talk here. 

Pyotr Kropotkin, Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution  (1902)

Jeff Shantz, A Creative Passion: Anarchism and Culture (2010)

Matei Călinescu, Five faces of modernity (1977)

Renato Poggioli,  The Theory of the Avant-Garde (1970)

Peter Burger, Theory Of the Avant-Garde  (1974)

Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1968)

Jacques Rancière, The Ignorant Schoolmaster(1987)

Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society (1970)

Araceli Tinajero, El Lector: A History of the Cigar Factory Reader (2010)

Amor y Anarquia: Los Escritos de Luisa Capetillo (1992)

Peter Marshall, Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism(1991)

 Jesse Cohn, Underground Passages: Anarchist Resistance Culture, 1848-2011 (2014)

Daniel Colson, A Little Philosophical Lexicon of Anarchism from Proudhon to Deleuze (2018)

André Reszler, L'esthétique anarchiste (1973)

Ursula K. Le Guin, The dispossessed (1974)










Destemming Session
4:00pm EST


Worldmaking Session
Narrative Architectures
5:00pm EST

WAI Think Tank

Cruz Garcia & Nathalie Frankowski explore Narrative Architecture via online platforms

Donwload Workshop files here.

Instructions:

1
Identify and collect ideological monuments and landscape paintings or download them from the  file provided above. 


Write a story board about your animation.

3
Create a series of Post-Colonial Landscapes.

4
Document them in an animated narrative via gif files. 

5
Record a video of the Narrative using zoom and powerpoint (or any other available software or webpages). 

We strongly encourage to incorporate ideas from the Loudreaders sessions in your arguments. 

6
Present the Narrative Architectures on Sunday