Extreme Cities
New Perspectives Theatre 456-458 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United StatesAshley Dawson argues that cities are ground zero for climate change, contributing the lion’s share of carbon to the atmosphere, while also lying on the frontlines of rising sea levels. He offers an alarming portrait of the future of our cities.
Fridays As In Murder: Women, Violence & Genre Formulas
Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue, BrooklynDrawing upon the potentials of film noir’s formula of restlessness, dread, and discontent within social corruption, women novelists wrote of threats to the domestic sphere and American society emerging as the global hegemon. Women writers explored crime and violence resulting from the racism and class exploitation while some male authors began writing of more complicated women.
Is Another World Really Possible?
New Perspectives Theatre 456-458 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United StatesWe 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.
Counter-cartographies of the global supply chain
New Perspectives Theatre 456-458 West 37th Street, New York, NY, United StatesWe will explore the potential for our own insurgent mapping projects, seeking to understand how supply chains are resilient yet vulnerable and fragile—and to identify where working-class solidarity has the greatest possibility to spread up and down the chain, across sectors, borders–and even oceans.
Fridays As In Murder: Women, Violence & Genre Formulas
Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue, BrooklynDrawing upon the potentials of film noir’s formula of restlessness, dread, and discontent within social corruption, women novelists wrote of threats to the domestic sphere and American society emerging as the global hegemon. Women writers explored crime and violence resulting from the racism and class exploitation while some male authors began writing of more complicated women.
Fridays As In Murder: Women, Violence & Genre Formulas
Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue, BrooklynDrawing upon the potentials of film noir’s formula of restlessness, dread, and discontent within social corruption, women novelists wrote of threats to the domestic sphere and American society emerging as the global hegemon. Women writers explored crime and violence resulting from the racism and class exploitation while some male authors began writing of more complicated women.
Fridays As In Murder: Women, Violence & Genre Formulas
Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue, BrooklynDrawing upon the potentials of film noir’s formula of restlessness, dread, and discontent within social corruption, women novelists wrote of threats to the domestic sphere and American society emerging as the global hegemon. Women writers explored crime and violence resulting from the racism and class exploitation while some male authors began writing of more complicated women.
Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason
From the book: “...a potential tendency for capital in searching to maximise its monetary profit to be drawn to invest in areas that produce no value or surplus value at all. Taken to extremes, either of these tendencies could be fatal to the reproduction of capital. In combination, and the contemporary evidence is that both trends are discernible, they could be catastrophic” (Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason, David Harvey, Oxford University Press, p.105).
Fridays As In Murder: Women, Violence & Genre Formulas
Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue, BrooklynDrawing upon the potentials of film noir’s formula of restlessness, dread, and discontent within social corruption, women novelists wrote of threats to the domestic sphere and American society emerging as the global hegemon. Women writers explored crime and violence resulting from the racism and class exploitation while some male authors began writing of more complicated women.
Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason
From the book: “...a potential tendency for capital in searching to maximise its monetary profit to be drawn to invest in areas that produce no value or surplus value at all. Taken to extremes, either of these tendencies could be fatal to the reproduction of capital. In combination, and the contemporary evidence is that both trends are discernible, they could be catastrophic” (Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason, David Harvey, Oxford University Press, p.105).
Fridays As In Murder: Women, Violence & Genre Formulas
Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue, BrooklynDrawing upon the potentials of film noir’s formula of restlessness, dread, and discontent within social corruption, women novelists wrote of threats to the domestic sphere and American society emerging as the global hegemon. Women writers explored crime and violence resulting from the racism and class exploitation while some male authors began writing of more complicated women.
Fridays As In Murder: Women, Violence & Genre Formulas
Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue, BrooklynDrawing upon the potentials of film noir’s formula of restlessness, dread, and discontent within social corruption, women novelists wrote of threats to the domestic sphere and American society emerging as the global hegemon. Women writers explored crime and violence resulting from the racism and class exploitation while some male authors began writing of more complicated women.
A People’s History of the World
Orchard Street, Newark, NJ classroom Orchard Street, Newark, NJ, United StatesConvened by Branden Rippey Downtown Newark on Orchard Street Using A People’s History of the World by Chris Harman, this course will study the broad trends in the history of our world, from early human civilization to today. We will complete the book during this term, covering events from 1750 through our present day. The ... Read more
Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason
From the book: “...a potential tendency for capital in searching to maximise its monetary profit to be drawn to invest in areas that produce no value or surplus value at all. Taken to extremes, either of these tendencies could be fatal to the reproduction of capital. In combination, and the contemporary evidence is that both trends are discernible, they could be catastrophic” (Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason, David Harvey, Oxford University Press, p.105).
Architecture of Doom
Jefferson Market Library 425 6th Avenue, New York, NYFree Film showing of Architecture of Doom at the Jefferson Market Library in Greenwich Village Architecture of Doom 119 minutes, color and b/w, 1991 MEP in Libraries Jefferson Market Library in the Village 425 6th Avenue Saturday, January 20, 2:30PM with discussion to follow Never before seen footage of Hitler's "Degenerate Art" Exhibition, an experiment ... Read more