Hello comrades,
Did you miss us? We missed you!
We are kicking off again over the next few weeks, with Militarism & Neutrality back in action this coming Tuesday. Care & Community and Film Club are going to be making their returns in February too, and we also have two new new new meetings!
We are going to be hosting a weekly Ciorcal Comhrá on Mondays in Chaplins and we are also going to be hosting a new reading group for Capital Vol. 1!While all of the rest of our groups are drop-in, and new members are welcome always forever eternally at any time, registration is required for our Capital reading group via our sign up form (https://forms.gle/gDCy18k3MA3ivs6Z9).
Upcoming dates
TUE 27 JAN 7PM – Militarism & Neutrality @ Connolly Books
TUE 3 FEB 7PM – Capital Vol. 1 @ TBC
THU 5 FEB 7PM – Care & Community @ Flux Chatham St
FRI 6 FEB 7PM – Mysterious Koyaanisqatsi event @ ???
MON 9 FEB 6PM – Ciorcal Comhrá @ Upstairs in Chaplins
THU 12 FEB 7PM – Film Club @ Marrowbone Books
THU 19 FEB 7PM – Care & Community read a book! (Info below!)
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Militarism + Neutrality
Tuesday 27 January 2026 / 7pm-8pm //
Connolly Books, 43 Essex St E, Temple Bar, D2
Militarisation of Culture and Fashion
Required reading:
- Laura J Shephard, ‘Militarism’ in Visual Global Politics (2018), available at: https://saintsandscholars.club/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Sh…
- Planet Money, ‘Strange threadfellows: How the U.S. military shaped what we all wear‘ – Interview with Avery Trufelman, (10 December 2025), available at: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5639211
- The Standard, Apocalypse-core: why people in East London dress like the world is ending (31 October 2024), available at: https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/fashion/apocalypse-core-fashion-east-london-world-ending-b1191249.html
Further reading:
- Alex Adams and Amy Gaeta, Introduction: Militarisation and Pleasure (10 October 2024), available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/14735784.2024.2394417
- Jane Tynan, ‘Images of Insurgency: Reading the Cuban Revolution through Military Aesthetics and Embodiment’ in Making War on Bodies: Militarisation, Aesthetics and Embodiment in International Politics (2020), available at: https://saintsandscholars.club/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Ty…
- Samantha Cole, The State of Anti-Surveillance Design (5 January 2026), available at: https://www.404media.co/the-state-of-anti-surveillance-design/
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Film Club
Thursday 12 February 2026 / 7pm-8pm //
Marrowbone Books, 78 The Coombe, D8
Koyaanisqatsi (dir. Godfrey Reggio, 1982)
Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and the exceptional music by Philip Glass.
We will be discussing this film in depth at our next Film Club meeting, but please keep your eyes peeled for an opportunity to watch this film in person as part of a special upcoming collaboration which will be announced very soon, on the evening of Friday 6th February 2026.
Suggested reading & further viewing: TBA
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Care & Community
Our usual meetings with Care & Community will resume on Thursday 5 Feb, with a reading list to follow next week, BUT at the Thu 19 Feb meeting we are going to be discussing:
Jodi Dean’s Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging
While we usually focus on reading articles in our groups, we decided that we’d dig into this (quite short) book for this meeting. If you need any help accessing the book, please let us know by reply to this email!
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Love and solidarity,
SAINTS AND SCHOLARS ☘️ 🩷
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