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This session is a discussion of Alex Billet's "Shake the City: Experiments in Space and Time, Art and Crisis"
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This seminar will discuss Alex Billet's "Shake the City: Experiments in Space and Time, Art and Crisis" recently published by 1968 Press. The panel will examine the current contours of the relationship between art, everyday life, and radical change in the "post-pandemic" iteration of late-late-capitalism. As debates sharpen around the division between media and “real life,” so do debates around the role of art and aesthetics in making life more livable. It has become increasingly clear that the aestheticization of violence and oppression is a key facet in both the maintenance of capitalism and the growth of the far-right. Thus, the question is posed about how the left’s relationship to art and human creativity can be strengthened to the end of envisioning communism as an actuality that can be feasibly fought for.
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Speakers Are:
Alexander Billet, member of the Locust Arts & Letters Collective, author of Shake the City: Experiments in Space and Time, Music and Crisis
C. Stella Becerril, independent activist and writer
Julia Alekseyeva (chair and discussant), author of Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution, and Assistant Professor of English and Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Pennsylvania
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PLEASE NOTE: All HM Online events are free to register, however we would ask comrades who are able to please consider making a donation, which would help us enormously in covering the costs of putting of this programme of events. Like all left organisations, HM has had a very tough period since the beginning of 2020 and our budgets are very stretched and bank balance is sinking all the time, with very little revenue coming in. If you can make a contribution to keep us afloat, please don’t hesitate!
This session is a discussion of Alex Billet's "Shake the City: Experiments in Space and Time, Art and Crisis"
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This seminar will discuss Alex Billet's "Shake the City: Experiments in Space and Time, Art and Crisis" recently published by 1968 Press. The panel will examine the current contours of the relationship between art, everyday life, and radical change in the "post-pandemic" iteration of late-late-capitalism. As debates sharpen around the division between media and “real life,” so do debates around the role of art and aesthetics in making life more livable. It has become increasingly clear that the aestheticization of violence and oppression is a key facet in both the maintenance of capitalism and the growth of the far-right. Thus, the question is posed about how the left’s relationship to art and human creativity can be strengthened to the end of envisioning communism as an actuality that can be feasibly fought for.
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Speakers Are:
Alexander Billet, member of the Locust Arts & Letters Collective, author of Shake the City: Experiments in Space and Time, Music and Crisis
C. Stella Becerril, independent activist and writer
Julia Alekseyeva (chair and discussant), author of Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution, and Assistant Professor of English and Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Pennsylvania
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PLEASE NOTE: All HM Online events are free to register, however we would ask comrades who are able to please consider making a donation, which would help us enormously in covering the costs of putting of this programme of events. Like all left organisations, HM has had a very tough period since the beginning of 2020 and our budgets are very stretched and bank balance is sinking all the time, with very little revenue coming in. If you can make a contribution to keep us afloat, please don’t hesitate!
