Reading to reMAKE

Join us to delve into some of the important ideas of our times

Reading to reMAKE is a regular reading group for anyone wanting a facilitated space to delve into some of the important ideas of our times. Over the course of the year, we’ll read chapters from authors like Naomi Klein, Rebecca Solnit, Yanis Varoufakis and Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò. Deep thinkers who question where we are, how we got here and what we might help to happen next.

We welcome anyone who wants to collectively explore new ways of thinking regardless of formal levels of education. The aim is to create a space where we can test ideas, discard them after consideration if they don’t fit and build on them if they do; a space to think together. It will require an openness and willingness to allow ourselves to be ‘wrong’ and to change our minds, to listen, to experiment and to play with ideas and possibilities.

While we hope to run an in-person group in lutruwita/Tasmania in the future, for now Reading to reMAKE will be held online (please join the mailing list below for an update on any in person events).

How to Join

Reading to reMAKE occurs approximately every two months on a Monday evening at 6pm AEDT.

Readings will be sent out approximately two weeks before the session so sign up to make sure you get them!

While you are welcome to choose which dates to attend, consistent attendance from a regular group of people will help us to build the trust required for robust and safe conversation.

Reading to reMAKE will be held on the following dates:

  • 17th March, 6pm AEDT

  • 5th May, 6pm AEST

  • 7th July, 6pm AEST

  • 1st September, 6pm AEST

  • 3rd November, 6pm AEDT

You will receive the reading 2 weeks in advance of the reading group date.

We’d love to hear your

reading suggestions!

Past readings

Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis

When I read Techno-feudalism last year, I found it helpful for making sense of big patterns of power across much of the world. In light of what is going on in the US and the attempted coup by unelected tech bros it feels particularly worth revisiting. I also love the way he writes it as a letter to his father, reminding us that this is a flawed human thinking through big issues; this feels like an invitation to engage in a conversation rather than receive a lecture. I like that.

This is a hard read in many ways, a confronting laying bare of how much of ourselves is known and owned by faceless tech. But knowledge is power. And in this case, understanding how power is being hoarded is knowledge that can help us reMAKE and reimagine. 

“No one makes themselves; we all make and unmake one another.”

Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World