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Experimental film / video and the crisis
There have recently been a cluster of French mainstream films that can be seen to engage with the crisis and its fallout in one way or another. Some of them are discussed in French here. There has also been a … Continue reading
Manifesto for Economic Democracy and Ecological Sanity Thursday 9 February 2012
It is often said that the weakness of current oppositional mobilisation is its lack of specific projects or concrete proposals. As if in answer to that kind of accusation, the Economic Democracy Manifesto Group have published a manifesto available here. … Continue reading
This is no bailout for Main Street America In reality, a $25bn mortgage deal with banks is a drop in the ocean – given US homeowners’ $700bn of negative equity
(by Rick Wolff ) Big announcements of breakthrough legislative deals during election campaigns should be taken with huge grains of salt. Generally more rhetoric than reality, they sometimes contain real concessions made by politicians seeking votes. So it is with Thursday’s … Continue reading
Taking stock: Occupy in late January by Jeffrey Masko
With wind and rain, OWSW ushered in a new phase of Occupy with the January 20th day of actions in the financial district of San Francisco. Any claim that Occupy is dead or in decline has been proven to be … Continue reading
Video artist Joan Loague and Occupy Wall St.
Noted video portrait artist, Joan Logue has been documenting the “Occupy Wall Street” event since it began to until December 7th. Her pieces ( here ) are short takes on Occupy actions and activity around in Zuccotti park and Brooklyn, … Continue reading
Video and the occupy movement or comment filmer une révolution
The last post was about an article analysing the formal choices made by current oppositional video. This link here is to something very, very different. It is essentially a ‘how to’ manual for oppositional film-making. Multi-camera film-making, camera angles and … Continue reading
video and the occupy movement
As is well known, video material has played a key role both for the occupy movement and in the Arab Spring (on the latter see here). Given that amateur and non-mainstream videos challenge the hegemony of dominant media, multiply the impact … Continue reading
Another great series of talks on the crisis
With the same interviewer as for the talks mentioned in the blog immediately below, Antoine Mercier seeks new approaches to the crisis from a range of leading intellectuals from disciplines such as sociology, history, philosophy, economics or the arts. Some … Continue reading
Great series of talks on the crisis
For a great series of talks on the crisis and its impact on the subjectivities of individuals see France Culture here. Among those discussing the crisis are Maurizio Lazzarato, author of an important new book on debt as mode of … Continue reading
Europe’s Debt Crisis Deepens by Richard D. Wolff
Over the weekend (17th/18th Dec), Fitch — the major rating company that, with its fellow majors, Moody’s and Standard and Poor’s, dominate the business of assessing the riskiness of debt instruments — took a highly publicized step. It downgraded the … Continue reading
