Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Dialogic Cinephilia - April 17, 2019

Annett, Anthony and Joshua Lipsky. "Ancient Rome Offers Lessons on the Importance of Sustainable Development." Inter Press Service (April 16, 2019)

Clausing, Kim. "5 Questions: Kim Clausing on Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital." Harvard University Press Blog (March 27. 2019)

Knabb, Ken. "The Situationists and May 1968." Live! From City Lights (April 9, 2019) ["City Lights presents Ken Knabb, leading translator of Guy Debord and the Situationist International, discussing the situationists’ key influence on the nationwide May 1968 revolt in France, and how that astonishing social eruption remains relevant to our present-day world. Ken Knabb is a writer, translator, and radical theorist, known for his translations of Guy Debord and the Situationist International. His own English-language writings, many of which were anthologized in Public Secrets (1997), have been translated into over a dozen additional languages. He is also a respected authority on the political significance of the anarchist poet and essayist Kenneth Rexroth. His other translations include Guy Debord’s film scripts (Complete Cinematic Works), Debord’s Society of the Spectacle, and Ngo Van’s In the Crossfire: Adventures of a Vietnamese Revolutionary. Knabb’s own writings include leaflets, comics, pamphlets and articles on Wilhelm Reich, George Brassens, and Gary Snyder."]

Martin, Abby, et al. "There you go again. Venezuela and America's addiction to imperialism." Best of the Left #1248 (February 8, 2019) ["Today we take a look, briefly, at the last 100 years of Venezuelan history to understand how they went from oil riches and inequality to revolution and social progress only to run afoul of American imperialism."]



What is Democracy? (Trailer) from NFB/marketing on Vimeo.




Taub. Ben. "Guantanamo's Darkest Secret." The New Yorker  (April 15, 2019) ["The U.S. military prison’s leadership considered Mohamedou Salahi to be its highest-value detainee. But his guard suspected otherwise."]

Taylor, Astra. "Who, the People?: The central truths of democracy are not always self-evident." The Baffler #43 (February 2019)

Tormey, John. "Known Assailants: Stalking the White Working Class From Within." The Baffler #43 (February 2019)











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