Standing on the shoulders of last year’s Cosocial reading group, let’s find our way to getting this going again!
I’m looking for collaborator(s) to co-host our reading group.
We can restart with reading Governable Spaces, by Nathan Schneider. Please note that there is a “Read the free, open access edition” option at the top of that page.
I’m in because…
I spend much time reading or interacting with content and want more engagement with people in order to learn together, get support and be inspired.
In my experience, more democratic governance empowers groups and enhances the well-being of individuals. In today’s autocratic moment, reading this is a much needed antidote.
I have a lot of (un)learning to do in pursuit of democratic governance.
Cosocial cooperative offers a unique opportunity to actively participate in democratic governance.
What would make it worth your while to join? Reply here to let us know.
That other people you know and like plan to participate? Lead the way! Let us know you’re interested.
Would you like to co-host the series or one session?
Want to start with a different reading? I’ll include proposed ideas in a poll to finalize our reading selection. For inspiration, see list of potential future readings in the Future Reading Group thread.
Are there other aspects influencing your choice to join?
Stay tuned - will follow up for meeting availability times.
Sounds great! Glad to see you interested in taking this on @tasha.
Happy to join for Governable Spaces next!
I’m not sure I could actively facilitate sessions right now as I have a few key CoSocial tasks on the go from now until June, but I would be a motivated attendee. What I could do is: support scheduling the calls, making luma events, and ofc we will always repost / post from the @coop account.
About (un)learning: I always think of that too: it takes practices and learning to cooperate and I always feel like I’m still learning how to do it all the time
Hey, @emd thanks for your post! Reading fiction is also an interesting idea. Would you like to propose a book? I can create a poll of reading group to finalize book selection and add proposed books to future-reads list. With any luck we can keep a good thing going!
Ooh I just realized I have a partial conflict for the first one, so I’ll be late.
I wonder if the amount of chapters for the first meeting might be a bit ambitious. It might be enough to focus on Into + Chap 1 or even just the Intro because we’ve scheduled it pretty soon after picking the book. But if no one has mentioned that then don’t mind me!
@dawn Thanks for the feedback! It looks like we still have just over two weeks to the first session. Agreed that it is a bit short for the most ambitiously packed session. I hear a motion (not technically ; need a term closer to proposal or change request for the group) to split session 1. I’ve split session 1 into three parts - will run a poll to see how the majority of the group wants to proceed.
; need a term closer to proposal or change request for the group) to split session 1. I’ve split session 1 into three parts - will run a poll to see how the majority of the group wants to proceed.