Critisticuffs Day Seminars, London Spring 2015

We have two separate day seminars coming up. Please RSVP by sending an
e-mail to

   critisticuffs@riseup.net

if you want to take part at either or both. Both take place in East London.

## Love & Relationships ##
Sunday, 22. February 2015, 12noon – 7pm

When asked what the most important goal in one's life might be, people
often answer either to be loved or to find the one person for life.
Such an answer is curious for many reasons. Just to name two: Firstly,
why is this answer so common? If so many people tend to think about the
goal in one's life so similarly, might there be something like a
systematic reason for this? Secondly, people tend to perceive
looking for the love of your life as something beyond the constraints of
capitalist society, as something which already anticipates the better,
more human, truly enlightened society. But why then are so many violent acts
committed in the name of love?

In this seminar, we will take a critical look at what love as a
feeling contains and at the role love plays in a society like ours.
Furthermore, we will touch upon the topic of domestic violence and
the extent to which it is related to love and concepts of love.

## The Hatred towards Homosexual People ##
Saturday, 7. March 2015, 12noon – 7pm

Even in the 21st century it is not irrelevant who you fall in love with
or who you like to have sex with. For many states and for many people
this "most private matter" is apparently of high public interest. They
see queer people as a threat to the public morality and the nation and
are convinced that "sexual diversity" and gay couples raising children
are tools to destroy the "natural order of sexes". Our seminar will
suggest some explanations where this hate comes from and some arguments
why the answers of many on the Left are often so wrong.

Cheers,
Critisticuffs
https://critisticuffs.org