[imc-rochester] Sci-fi Films, Surveillance, and Society--A Rochester Free School Class!

[knight0440 at yahoo.com]

The class's first film: 1984; staring John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton

Tuesday, February 8
Flying Squirrel Community Space
285 Clarissa St.
Rochester, NY 
7PM-10PM

We'll
 start class with a 20-min. introduction followed by the film with a 
20-min to half hour discussion afterword. Handouts for people to look 
over and write on will be handed out before the film starts.

Over
 the course of 9 weeks, we will be watching Hollywood sci-fi films with a
 critical eye toward how surveillance is represented in these films an...d
 how all these films together (and other sci-fi films that incorporate 
surveillance themes) could be seen as a socialization agent in the 
normalizing of surveillance in our contemporary world. 

Of course moral judgments and other themes can and will naturally be introduced for discussion.

Dates for the class; please mark your calendars: February 8, 15, 22; March 8, 15, 22, 29; April 12, 19

Attendees should bring a notepad and pen or pencil.

The class will start at 7PM and be over by no later than 10PM.
 
The
 Rochester Free School was set up over a year ago as a place to 
facilitate the sharing of skills and knowledge freely for anyone. Anyone
 can teach and anyone can learn. The Principles of the Rochester Free 
School are below. The website is: 

Free School Principles of Unity: http://freeschool.rocus.org/

    * Rochester Free School believes that education is a right rather than a
      privilege.  Rochester Free School works to de-commodify and
      de-institutionalize education with free classes open to all.
    * Rochester Free School follows a do-it-yourself (DIY) ethic.  We believe

      everyone has skills and insights to share and we would rather 
learn from each other than attend stale institutions.  We believe 
practical/experiential  knowledge is as important as 
academic/theoretical knowledge.
    * Rochester Free School is run 
democratically and horizontally by consensus.  Each member of Rochester 
Free School has equal say in making decisions.
    * Rochester Free 
School offers popular education in order to build the critical 
consciousness needed to topple systems of oppression and provides 
practical knowledge to survive in the meantime.
    * Rochester Free 
School open classes and spokes council work to resist and critique 
systems of oppression that include racism, sexism, homophobia, and body 
or class privilege.
    * At Rochester Free School, we believe 
knowledge should help inform and inspire our practice concerning 
concrete, consistent, ongoing struggle to produce fundamental, 
widespread, permanent, progressive, socioeconomic, political, cultural 
change and measurable improvement of the human condition.
    * At Rochester Free School, all are teachers and all are students. 


      
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