Reading Group Focus Friendship (Session 2): Let’s read about friendship and explore what it means to us and how we can understand it better.

All welcome! If you have any questions, please email info@partisancollective.net <3 Please join the Reading Group via the Partisan WhatsApp in advance. We’ll let people know there in which part of HOME we’re gathering.

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Meeting at HOME, 2 Tony Wilson Pl, Manchester M15 4FN
Sunday 13th July 2025
3 - 5pm

Required (and accessible) reading: Sophie K Rosa column ‘How do I make Friends in the Cold Heart of the Capitalist Machine’

https://novaramedia.com/2023/12/13/how-do-i-make-friends-in-the-cold-heart-of-the-capitalist-machine/

Optional reading: 

Leah Claire Allen and John S. Garrison, Against friendship, p227-247 in Queer Kinship: Race, Sex, Belonging, Form (this engages in part with Foucault's Friendship as a Way of Life)

Elizabeth Fraser, Mary Wollstonecraft on Politics and Friendship, 16 pages

Aragorn! Against Friendship (v short online article) https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/aragorn-against-friendship 

Derrida on the Politics of Friendship, summaries here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGKuEgVj3GI&ab_channel=EssensBookSummaries and https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/4882-the-politics-of-friendship?_pos=1&_psq=friendship&_ss=e&_v=1.0