Is Another World Really Possible?
New Perspectives Theatre 456-458 West 37th Street, New YorkWe need a positive vision of a better world and the roads leading to it. So let’s imagine we are future historians living in a peaceful, egalitarian, democratic society on a damaged, but stabilized, planet in the year 2117.
The Politics of the Unconscious: Last Session
New Perspectives Theatre 456-458 West 37th Street, New YorkThrough theory and practice we will examine the psychoanalytic concept of the unconscious in the late 19th to 20th century. Starting with the fin-de-siècle Parisian hospital Salpêtrière, we will touch upon the historical resonances of the invention of mental pathology, and aesthetic forms that resonance has instigated.
The Politics of the Unconscious: Last Dance/Last Supper
New Perspectives Theatre 456-458 West 37th Street, New YorkThe jaws of my mind are in perpetual motion. —Salvador Dali, Gastro Esthetics
The spectacle corresponds to the historical moment at which the commodity completes the colonization of social life.
Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle