“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 [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
The dreams of Reverend Billy and Subcomandante Marcos move past the real: they are absurd, irrational, and seemingly impossible. In brief, they remain dreams. It is no coincidence that Reverend Billy has become well known among young progressive activists in the United States in recent years, nor that Subcommandante Marcos has inspired dissenters worldwide, for [...]
While the subjectivity that Gene Ray describes here sounds like an ideal solution to what has become an institutionalization of critique, we should be aware of the pitfalls that a celebration of this kind of idea potentially opens. One must not idealize the flexibility of the artist described here over the static institutions and concrete [...]
