Winter – Week #3

Hello comrades,

We have two sessions coming up in the next week, and, as usual, new members are always really welcome to attend!

If you haven’t been before and would like to come but want to know a little bit more about how the sessions run (or anything else at all), please feel free to send us a reply to this email and we will get back to you!

This week coming

TUE 25 NOV 7PM –> Militarism & Neutrality @ Connolly Books
THU 27 NOV 7PM –> Film Club @ Marrowbone Books

The week after

THU 4 DEC 7PM –> Care & Community @ FLUX Studios

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Militarism and Neutrality

Tuesday 25 November 2025 / 7pm-8pm //
Connolly Books, 43 Essex Street East, Dublin 2

Masculinity and the Rhetoric of War

Core Reading

• Carol Cohn, Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals, available at https://escholarship.org/uc/item/83k4763m
• Paulie Doyle, Taking Things Seriously, available at: https://www.ontheditch.com/comment-taking-things-seriously/

Further Reading

• Pick your poison from the Modern War Institute Podcast, available at: https://mwi.westpoint.edu/class-of-1974-mwi-podcast/
• Carol Cohn, “Maternal thinking” and the concept of “vulnerability” in security paradigms, policies, and practices, available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/276482179_Maternal_…

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Film Club

Thursday 27 November 2025 / 7pm-8pm //
Marrowbone Books, 78 The Coombe, D8

[FYI this is not a screening! Just a chat!]

Il Conformista (dir. Bernardo Bertolucci) [LINK TO WATCH]

A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.

Suggested reading:

• “Shadows of the Psyche: The Conformist” American Cinematographer – https://theasc.com/articles/shadows-of-the-psyche-the-conformist 
• “The Conformist: Freud vs Marx?” NY TImes – https://archive.ph/9r6sg

Further viewing:Le Mépris (1962, dir. Jean-Luc Godard), Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975, dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini).

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Love and solidarity,
SAINTS AND SCHOLARS ☘️ 🩷