Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Dialogic Cinephilia - April 17, 2018

Anders, Christopher. "Don’t Let Congress Give Trump a Blank Check to Declare Worldwide War." Speak Freely (April 13, 2018)

Bayman, Alasdair. "Nick Cave, Ennio Morricone and a lot of gunshots!" Dirty Movies (April 12, 2018)

Gaffney, Adam. "Crisis and Opportunity." Dissent (Spring 2018) ["A society’s health—and healthcare system—serves as a window into its soul: it sheds light on the balance of class power, on political struggles long settled and still underway, and on who the society privileges and who it lets die."]

Havel, Vaclav. "The Power of the Powerless." (October 1978)

Joint Security Area (South Korea: Chan-wook Park, 2000) Dialogic Cinephilia (Ongoing Archive)

Lifton, Robert Jay. "The Assault on Reality." Dissent (April 10, 2018) ["Essential to understanding Trump is his attempt to subject the public to his own solipsistic reality—and thereby destroy our shared basis for democracy."]

---. "Malignant Normality." Dissent (Spring 2017)  ["Extreme ideologues do much to create a malignant normality, which comes to pervade most institutions, including medical ones. Then ordinary people who work in those institutions adhere to that normality, often aided by bits and pieces of the extreme ideology. The prevailing normality can be decisive because it excludes alternatives and provides strong pressures for destructive behavior."]

McCann, Bryan. "Brazil's New Right." Dissent (Spring 2018) ["Since Dilma Rousseff’s impeachment, Brazil has been in political turmoil. With ex-president Lula’s recent surrender, a new right threatens to become the decisive force in the 2018 elections."]

Mueller, Gavin. "Liberalism and Gentrification." Jacobin (September 26, 2014) ["Gentrification isn’t a cultural phenomenon — it’s a class offensive by powerful capitalists."]

Weston, Hillary. "A Life at the Pictures: A Conversation with Lynne Ramsay." Current (April 16, 2018)


























The Gush: Saoirse Ronan from Fandor on Vimeo.



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