No one can claim mastery over the topic of power. No one’s an expert— not even the experts. We are all pretty much stumped. This friend seminar, or “freminar,”” is a group effort to unstump ourselves as best we can, and everybody has their own insights to contribute. The seminar notes, running about 200 pages so far, and stiltedly and plainly written, are mine. They consist of two broad parts. The first part gives a rough sketch of the metaphysical or philosophical evasion of power. The second part is an equally tentative overview of how I think this evasion hobbled our conception of power in social thought and action. So the first part dwells more on metaphysical, categorical, and even naturalistic questions; the second on the more sociological, cultural, and political. It’s not necessary to have read the cited thinkers, but I have the pdfs available in case you get the desire for further reading.
Sessions will be both IRL and URL

Notes:
Part 1, Section 1, on Pandynamism and the Meaning of Power.
Part 1, Section 2, on the Science of Accidents.
Plate 1: Rube Goldberg’s “Idea for Dodging Bill Collectors.”
Part 1, Section 3, Modes and Configurations.
Part 1, Section 4, The Investigator.
Part 1, Section 5, the Ontology of Mechanism, Time, and Rhythm.
Part 1, Section 6, Infinite Plasticity, Time, Space, and Alien Dynamics
Plate 2: Six Flags, Music, Bodies, and Machines.