Hello comrades,
This Tuesday our Militarism & Neutrality group will be discussing the Militarisation of Culture and Fashion, and our Das Kapital and Care & Community groups will be kicking off next week!
You can find out a bit more and sign up for our 11 session Das Kapital reading group at the following link: https://forms.gle/gDCy18k3MA3ivs6Z9, and the required reading for our first meeting is included just below in this very email.Guess what? New members are very welcome! The more comrades the merrier!
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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Das Kapital, Volume 1
Tuesday 3 February 2026 / 7pm-8pm //
Venue: Dublin city centre, TBC
Sign up form: https://forms.gle/gDCy18k3MA3ivs6Z9
Can’t make the first session? That’s okay – catch up with the week’s reading and come along to session two! We are asking that people commit to ~90% of the sessions, but we aren’t going to be tyrants about it xx
Session One
Required reading:
- Chapter 1 of Harvey’s A Companion to Marx’s Capital
(For future weeks we will also issue an annotated guide to the original text, but we’re gonna take a nice easy[ier] start!)
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Care & Community
Thursday 5 February 2026 / 7pm-8pm //
Flux Studios, Chatham St, Dublin 2
The Radical Potential of Friendship
Required reading:
- Carla Bergman, “Friendship, Freedom, Ethics, Affinity” from Joyful Militancy: Building Resistance in Toxic Times. Available at: https://saintsandscholars.club/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Jo…
- Laura C. Forster & Joel White, “Periodising Friendship” from Friends in Common: Radical Friendship and Everyday Solidarities. Available at: https://saintsandscholars.club/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Ex…
- Tom Cutterham, “Just Friends” in The New Inquiry. Available at: https://thenewinquiry.com/just-friends/
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Thursday 19 February 2026 / 7pm-8pm //
Flux Studios, Chatham St, Dublin 2
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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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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Love and solidarity,
SAINTS AND SCHOLARS ☘️ 🩷
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