DWebYVR reading group - December meeting
Tldr: For our next meeting, on December 10th, we will read the introduction and the first essay (Dead Zones of the Imagination) of David Graeber's The Utopia of Rules. You can sign up here:
Thank you to everyone who attended the inaugural DWebYVR reading group meeting on November 12th, and thank you for the insightful and stimulating conversation about Jo Freeman's The Tyranny of Structurelessness.
Apart from having that conversation, we also discussed a few logistical points:
- For the moment, we decided to try a roughly monthly cadence of meetings. This means our next meeting is coming up fast, on December 10th (register here).
- Most people seemed to agree that short-ish readings are preferable, and that longer readings should be broken up into several meetings (more on that below).
- In terms of choosing next readings, the group decided we'd vote on next readings at the end of each meeting. So rather than defaulting to Clark's Designing an Internet, which we had in the pipeline, we held another vote with new suggestions for December's meeting.
- ...the result of that vote was that David Graeber's The Utopia of Rules is our next reading (VPL link).
As The Utopia of Rules comes in at about 200 pages, we will split it up across two meetings. For December 10th we will read the introduction and the first essay, Dead Zones of the Imagination (these comprise roughly half the book).
You do not need to have read the whole thing to attend. If the reading sounds interesting to you, please come and hang out and share in our conversation around it.
See you December 10th, and happy reading!