Category Archives: film

“Night School on Anarres”

Posted on February 26, 2018 by

Night School on Anarres is an educational experiment examining the utopian proposals of twentieth-century anarchism, drawing from Ursula K Le Guin’s seminal sci-fi novel The Dispossessed. … Part sci-fi set, part classroom, part roundhouse theatre, the Night School on Anarres installation is a site where utopic ambitions can be collectively imagined, performed and discussed.”

Posted in anarchism, autonomy, Blog, fiction, film, the common

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“The care and feeding of radical men”

Posted on February 19, 2018 by

“By glossing over Karl Marx’s numerous personal misdeeds, Raoul Peck’s biopic ‘The Young Karl Marx’ fails to give his collaborators their due.”

Posted in film, fraternity, In The News, resistance, the Left

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“October! The Soviet Centenary”

Posted on February 2, 2018 by

South Atlantic Quarterly 116: 4 (October 2017), Hardt & Mezzadra, eds.

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Terence Renaud: “Going underground: Subterranean metaphors as a powerful tool of political resistance.”

Posted on March 14, 2017 by

Is there a renewed underground today for antifascist resistance to survive?  “In our own time, the idea of resistance has a renewed urgency and appeal. But we won’t be able to fight a fresh wave of authoritarianism without appreciating the symbols that animated the antifascist imagination of the past – in particular, the underground. That symbol has very deep roots in European and US culture, but over the course of the 20th century it was transformed from a threatening zone of subversion into a liberating space of political resistance.”

Posted in fiction, film, freedom, Nota Bene, resistance, Uncategorized

Jacob Bacharach: “The Madness of King Donald”

Posted on February 24, 2017 by

A feeling of panicked inertness:  “The president poses a problem that has vexed royal courts for millennia: What to do about a tyrant who has lost his wits?”

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“Inauguration of the Displeasure Dome: Coping with the Election”: screenings

Posted on January 20, 2017 by

A movie series:  “Now that the alternate reality of a certain strand of ‘paranoid’ political films has, to a degree few of us thought possible, come to pass, perhaps it’s time to re-watch these films from our new, disillusioned perspective.”

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