EventsCommon Ground
Jason E. Smith with Paul Mattick
Weekly conversations with activists, social justice practitioners, and changemakers.
Thursday, November 19, 2020 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Please join us for a conversation between author Jason E. Smith and Rail Field Notes editor Paul Mattick. We’ll conclude with a poetry reading from Brendan Joyce.
In this Talk
Jason E. Smith
Jason E. Smith writes about contemporary art, philosophy, and politics. His work has appeared in Artforum, Grey Room, October and SAQ, among other places, and he frequently writes for The Brooklyn Rail’s "Field Notes" section. He is currently finishing two books, one on automation, the other on the theory of the "party" in political struggles. He is currently chair of the Graduate Art department at Art Center College of Design.
Paul Mattick
Author and theorist Paul Mattick is the Rail’s Field Notes editor. His most recent books are Theory as Critique: Essays on Capital (Haymarket Books, 2019) and Business as Usual: The Economic Crisis and the Failure of Capitalism (Reaktion Books, 2011).
The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we're fortunate to have Dao Strom reading.
Dao Strom
Artist Dao Strom works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. She is the author of Instrument (Fonograf Editions, 2020) and its musical companion Traveler’s Ode (Antiquated Future Records, 2020); a bilingual poetry-art book, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else (AJAR Press); a memoir, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People, and song cycle, East/West; and two books of fiction, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys and Grass Roof, Tin Roof. Born in Vietnam, Strom grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California and lives in Portland, Oregon. She is co-founder of two collective art projects, She Who Has No Master(s), and De-Canon.
We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨