Dearest comrades,
Our third session of CATU In Defence of Housing will be taking place next Wednesday and will be looking at oppression and liberation in housing!
After their good and glorious return last week, Care & Community gang will be back again next Thursday and will be chatting about the digital panopticon!
P.S. New attendees at all of our groups are always welcome, encouraged, wanted!
P.P.S. If you’d like to come along to one of our meetings but would like a little bit more information about how we run our meetings or you’re feeling a bit shy even, please feel free to reply to this email! We’d be very happy to chat about the groups and loop in with you beforehand!
Upcoming dates // readings & info below
Wed 7 October 7PM – CATU x S&S @ Kirkos
Thu 8 October 7PM – Care & Community @ Flux Studios
Tue 13 October 7PM – Militarism & Neutrality @ Connolly Books
Love and solidarity,
SAINTS AND SCHOLARS ☘️ 🩷
CATU v S&S – In Defence of Housing
Wednesday 7 October 2026 / 7pm-8pm //
Kirkos, Little Green Street, Dublin 7
Residential Alienation
Readings:
- Oppression and Liberation in Housing
Book Chapter: Chapter 3 – Oppression and Liberation in Housing, in David Madden & Peter Marcuse, In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis (Verso, 2016), available at: https://saintsandscholars.club/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Ch… - Journal Article: Eva Rosen, Philip M. E. Garboden, and Jennifer E. Cossyleon, Racial Discrimination in Housing: How Landlords Use Algorithms and Home Visits to Screen Tenants (August 2021), available at :https://saintsandscholars.club/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Ro…
- Newspaper Article: Irish Times, Sex for rent offers in Dublin: The landlord wanted me to share a bed with him (19 February 2025), available at: https://saintsandscholars.club/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Se…–-The-Irish-Times.pdf
- Song: a lazarus soul, Long Balconies (14 June 2019) available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8THFYdAsaQ
Care & Community
Thursday 8 October 2026 / 6.30pm-7.30pm //
Flux Studios, Chatham St, Dublin 2
Is ‘the digital panopticon’ a threat to community and social cohesion?
Core reading:
- Book chapter: Byung-Chul Han,The Society of Control from The Transparency Society (2012). Available at: https://www.are.na/block/6062444
- Video essay: Mina Le, Please Stop Filming Strangers (2026). Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA3xz5wSJgU
Essay: Christopher P. Jones, Social Media and the Digital Gaze (2018). Available at: https://archive.ph/gpxfQ
Further reading:
- Article: Mosè Cometta, Digital Capitalism and Friendship (2023). Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/376221311_Digital_C…
- Podcast: Polyester Podcast, The Girlification of Surveillance Culture (2026). Available at: https://www.polyesterzine.com/podcast/the-girlification-of-s…
- Article: Adam Maguire, Neighborhood Watch: the Growing Unease with Ring Doorbells (2026). Available at: https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2026/0627/1580571-ring-amaz…