“Nietzsche already observed that, after the death of God, health rose to divine status. If a horizon of meaning extended beyond bare life, the cult of health would not be able to achieve this degree of absoluteness.” ― Byung-Chul Han Join us for an engaging public lecture hosted by renowned author and sociologist, Ashley Frawley, as…
Category: Otago
OSS Public Lecture: Couldn’t Stop The Worst – The Anti-War Movement Twenty Years Later
On the 15th February 2003 a series of demonstrations held across New Zealand against the impending invasion kicked off a coordinated wave of demonstrations which would become one of the largest international protests in history. A month later, on the morning of the 20th March, combat troops from the US, UK, Australia, and Poland began…
Inspiration and Betrayal: The Second International (1889-1914) and its Significance Today
The New Zealand Federation of Socialist Societies would like to invite the public to our first-ever nationwide online presentation. The topic of discussion is “Inspiration and Betrayal: The Second International (1889-1914) and its Significance Today” and will be hosted by our comrade from the UK, Ben Lewis. This event has been put together in collaboration…
Otago Socialist Society Re-Launch Event – William Morris: Artist, Writer, Socialist
“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.” -William Morris William Morris was an artist, textile designer, craftsman, poet, novelist, and pioneering socialist. His fiction helped establish fantasy as a genre, his artistic endeavours were an enormous contribution to the British “Arts and Crafts Movement”,…