20th August 2014 7pm: Join with radicals, thinkers, activists, poets, and intellectuals on the Monterey Peninsula to read and discuss some of the greatest philosophers of our time.

For the third Theory and Philosophy Reading Group, we’ll be reading Achille Mbembe’s important work, “Necropolitics.”

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Things are sizzlin’ here at Old Capitol Books! We have the Monterey Bay Poetry Consortium here the second Sundays 2-4pm; Back Alley Poetry on the first Tuesdays at 8pm… and NOW! a new Open Mic event second Tuesdays 5-7pm! “Networking Aloud: A Monthly Writers’ Open Mic”

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Tuesday, July 15 at 2pm-4pm – Come over to Old Capitol Books to meet Sidney Powell, powerhouse attorney and author of Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice. Continue reading “Book Signing: Sidney Powell, author of “Licensed to Lie””

Wednesday, July 30, 2014 at 6:30pm: For the last seminar of the Thinking Critically about Society Summer Session, we’ll be discussing psychedelics!

From religious experiences to government control of substances, this seminar will be an introduction to the ways that psychedelics have been used and how society limits use or proposes new use for psychedelics in the 21st century.
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Wednesday 16 July 2014 – 6:30pm: Part two of the four part seminar series, Thinking Critically about Society. This session, led by Michael Frederiksen of the Peace and Justice Center, will discuss some of the key readings of Marxism in a friendly and accessible way.  Continue reading “Event: Reading Marx (Thinking Critically about Society Summer 2014)”

Wednesday July 9th, 6:30pm-8pm – The first session in the summer seminar series, Thinking Critically about Society.  A night of feminist, queer, and gender theory presented in an open and inclusive way. Continue reading “What is Gender? (Thinking Critically about Society Summer 2014)”

May 30th, 5pm:  Jack Erickson will be in Old Capitol Books to sign copies of his new novel, Thirteen Days in Milan, a book about a cell of terrorists with connections to the Red Brigades who take an American woman hostage during a political assassination at Milan’s Stazione Centrale.

Check out the facebook event page here.

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June 18th, 7pm: Join with radicals, thinkers, activists, poets, and intellectuals on the Monterey Peninsula to read and discuss some of the greatest philosophers of our time.  We are particularly interested in 20th and 21st century philosophy, and our second readings will come from Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality.Continue reading “Theory and Philosophy Reading Group II”