ACTION MOVIES
“Disruptive Film: Everyday Resistance to Power”

By Michael Joshua Rowin

FEB 2017 | Film

An old chestnut—no less true for being old, nor a chestnut—has it that an effective political cinema cannot merely represent radical political movements, issues, or events, but must render them through forms that are themselves radically political.

Up Space, Down Space: Moving Dancers of New York

By MG Lee

MAR 2019 | Dance

While there’s been a flourish of big name choreographers and residencies cropping up in Upstate New York—Stephen Petronio and Jonah Bokaer, among others— emerging, local groups are also looking upstate for space and solitude to rehearse.

Socialism, Capitalism, and Democracy

By Steve Fraser

NOV 2019 | Field Notes

Living in the age of the 1 percent and the 99 percent, mired in the swamp of crony capitalism where Citizens United makes a mockery of “one man, one vote,” presided over by a felonious billionaire who has most likely never read the Constitution and is not inclined to obey it, the very notion that capitalism and democracy might cohabit the same political universe seems like a bad joke. Capitalism in its current form has become the graveyard of democracy.

Surveying the Demos: Reviving Civic Dialogue in Astra Taylor's What is Democracy?

By Esmé Hogeveen

MAR 2019 | Film

Though the film begins with allusions to rule and justice from Antiquity and the Renaissance, What Is Democracy? is very much about the global present.