Posted March 21st, 2007 by surplus
The Change You Want to See is thrilled to host author and activist Steve Duncombe for a presentation and discussion of his acclaimed manifesto Dream: Re-imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy. Beyond talk, this is also an applied strategy session – irrigate the irrational, practice your “spectacular vernacular”, exercise your imagination as [...]
Posted March 18th, 2007 by surplus
“What if “The Prophesy” were true. What if tomorrow the war could be over? Isn’t that worth fighting for? Isn’t that worth dying for?”
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What really is the question being asked here? Could “The Prophesy” Morpheous is asking about be, not the one the prophet speaks of (within the movie narrative), but the one he’s presenting [...]
Posted March 18th, 2007 by surplus
Quick short documenting The Gadabout Film Festival’s visit to The Change You Want to See.
Posted March 17th, 2007 by surplus
“Our path toward truth coincides with the truth itself.”
The NEO-CONey Island Block Party and Fashion Show. An event that staged The Republican National Convention of 2004 two weeks before the actual event. By inviting people to fake their involvement in a reinactment of the upcoming protest participants acted out a protest without necassarily having [...]
Posted March 16th, 2007 by surplus
At first read, this is just another arch-ironic send-up of organizationd religion staged in front of a crowd of urban hipsters. And it is. “We use right-wing hate preachers’ images and turn them inside out,” Bill explains. But it is also something much more: the service is a genuin service in communion and shared faith [...]