Category Archives: film

Assembling a revolutionary movement

Posted on June 11, 2020 by

My reflections on Robert Kramer’s movie Ice (1970)

10 June 2020

Posted in agonism, Blog, film, gender, power, revolt, the Left, tragic politics, violence

“‘Black Patriots’ Were Heroes Of The Revolution — But Not The History Books”

Posted on February 19, 2020 by

“A new documentary, Black Patriots: Heroes of the Revolution, introduces us to heroes of the American Revolution who aren’t typically found in history books. They are a writer, a double agent, a martyr and a soldier — and they are all black.”

Posted in Blog, film, freedom, revolution, rights

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Joseph Fronczak: “Melancholy and Mobilisation”

Posted on February 19, 2020 by

A review of Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory by Enzo Traverso

Posted in Blog, defeat, film, melancholy, power, revolution, the Left, tragic politics

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A.O. Scott: “Review: ‘Edge of Democracy’ Looks at Brazil with Outrage and Heartbreak”

Posted on June 19, 2019 by

‘One of the implications of “The Edge of Democracy” is that as Lula and the Workers’ Party lost touch with the mass movement that brought them to power and mastered the levers of the political system, they made themselves vulnerable to popular anger on the right. Corruption and back room dealing were longstanding norms of Brazilian governance that the party didn’t do much to challenge.’

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Posted in film, hubris, melancholy, Nota Bene, revolt, the Left, tragic politics

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“Love and revolution” (2018): A film by Yannis Youlountas

Posted on August 6, 2018 by

A documentary film-testimony of struggles for autonomy in Greece, letting those who are directly engaged in these struggles speak for themselves.

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“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.”

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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?”

Posted in crisis, film, governance, Nota Bene, power, Uncategorized