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Ras Dia
Ras Dia is an arts producer and curator who specializes in multi-disciplinary arts programming. He is the Assistant Producer of the Metropolitan Opera’s Peabody- and Emmy-award winning Live in HD series seen in movie theaters in 70 countries worldwide, and… Continue Reading
Ethan Heard
Ethan Heard directs plays, musicals, and opera, ranging from new work to Shakespeare, Sondheim to Monteverdi. He is Founding Co-Artistic Director of Heartbeat Opera and also teaches acting and directing at Yale School of Drama, Yale Institute of Sacred Music,… Continue Reading
S. Shabzadeh | Beyond Property?
By S. Shabzadeh Introduction Capitalist conceptions of property and labor were born in the factories and looms of industrial revolution England in the latter half of the 18th century. The rapid accumulation of wealth by England’s industrialists through the mechanization… Continue Reading
Bernard E. Harcourt | For Coöperation and the Abolition of Capital
Deborah Cook | Adorno on late capitalism: Totalitarianism and the welfare state
Hedwig Lieback | The Unresolved Implications of Property
W. E. B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction, which serves as a guiding post of our seminar, attacks revisionist history, racism, structural economic inequality, the fiction of social rise solely through individual effort and the preeminence of capitalist greed over democratic… Continue Reading
Theo Bleckmann | Lyrics from Bertolt Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera
English We will not keep the people waiting. Ladies and gentlemen, you see here the vanishing representative of a vanishing class. What is a picklock to a bank share? What is the burgling of a bank to the founding of a bank?… Continue Reading
Brandon Vines | Review of 4/13: Abolishing the Metaphor
By Brandon Vines “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights; that among them is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” [1] The… Continue Reading