Feminist Art Criticism and Gender Politics
In The Second Sex Simone de Beauvoir writes: “If her functioning as a female is not enough to define woman, if we decline also to explain her through “the eternal feminine,” and...
teaching
Cybernetic Vision and the Rise of the Machines
The Rise of the Machines “…based on the various reports, it is possible that they were located using surveillance technology that tracked their satellite phones.” – EFF report on foreign journalist deaths in...
Fascist Aesthetics and the Heroic – Sontag, Riefenstahl and Propaganda
Some materials to think through in relation to questions of Nazi and Fascist aesthetics, and the influences of German art and politics between WWI and WWII. Reflections on Nazi film propagandist Leni Riefenstahl,...
The Politics of Fiction
I’m a storyteller. That’s what I do in life — telling stories, writing novels — and today I would like to tell you a few stories about the art of storytelling and also...
Working on making politics more fun…
The following is a video animation project I was working on over the weekend for the Social Justice Committee at the New School. We’re trying to teach people how to use consensus, and...
Our Fossil Fuel Future – Part I: The Keystone XL Pipeline
[Breaking News Addition: Nebraska farmers and ranchers pack Keystone hearing– demand project be stopped!] While teaching a lesson today on the creation and passage of the 1970 National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) by...
