Posted August 10th, 2007 by surplus
The Change You Want to See hosts author and activist Steve Duncombe, March 27 2007, for a presentation and discussion of his acclaimed manifesto Dream: Re-imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy.
Also an applied strategy session where participants are encouraged to “irrigate the irrational, practice your spectacular vernacular, exercise your imagination” in an [...]
Posted July 31st, 2007 by surplus
Often, it is stated that to name something is to limit and constrain meaning.
One can envision the argument that those organizing as representatives of the group Picture New York are speaking in place of New Yorkers who aren’t represented by their group. This type of charge typically follows with the claim that to speak for [...]
Posted July 29th, 2007 by surplus
Art, Culture, Politics: Radical Interventions in the Public Sphere
Videos and Panel Discussion at the Brecht Forum
Wednesday, July 11
Videos: 6:30 – 7:30 pm
Panel: 7:30 – 9:00 pm followed by a Soiree
Light refreshments will be served.
Although we live in grim times, artists are continuing to provide provocative, even playful critiques to neoliberalism, globalization and environmental destruction [...]
Posted July 28th, 2007 by surplus
Save film and photography in NYC! Sign the petition at http://www.picturenewyork.org, and make a YouTube video comment. Tag it “picturenewyork”.
A group of filmmakers, photographers, and others concerned about proposed rules by the NYC Mayor’s Office of Film rallied at Union Square on July 27th, 2007. The rules make it difficult for even casual filmmakers and [...]
Posted May 12th, 2007 by surplus
Two clips from ‘Ghost Dance’ with Jacques Derrida describing ghostly hauntings. In the first Derrida explains an “abnormal” state of mourning where, rather than being internalized and accepted, the dead are “incorporated” in a way where they are taken in but don’t become part of us. It’s a quick and poetic except that speaks [...]
