A top-down decision-making structure whose sole purpose is to fatten its pockets is fundamentally incapable of incorporating average people’s concerns in any meaningful way.
We need to stop being passive. We need a strong response to a real threat.
We collect as much as we can, like the shards and the bits and the pieces, and we create a collective portrait or project. And out of that, we get a picture of what an experience might have been.
Baldwin takes seriously the Socratic dictum that the unexamined life is not worth living. And he holds the view, at least I attribute this to him, that the messiness of the world is actually a reflection of the messiness of our interior lives.
On Wednesday, February 6th, the Alliance of Jewish Progressives (AJP) held its workshop, “Dismantling Anti-Semitism.” There were over 20 attendees, arranged in a semi circle;…
The 21st century Left is lacking. I will use the first person plural when I describe the international anti-capitalist Left in all of its forms,…
I went to the library for research. I pulled out a stack of books; Marina Abramovic’s dreamlike memoir, a collection of essays about art by…
Insurrectionists are nobody in particular. They are individuals mobilized in their discontent, forced into action by the inaction of others. In that networked individuality, they…
The act of uncovering power, however, cannot just be to bear witness to power’s abuses; what Apostol provides are complex psychological portraits of the subaltern, their oppressors, and the oppressors’ collaborators. It is that duality that is particular to Apostol’s work: a deep understanding of oppressor and oppressed.