Imagine a week in your life without any music in the car or your headphones, without a single television show or movie, no YouTube reels, not a single book on your shelves, no paintings or prints on your walls, no pictures on your coffee mugs. Art is everywhere, and we need it. “Art is food. You can’t eat it, but it feeds you.” It soothes pain! It sings Hallelujah! Hurrah!
Let Zafira Dance: Q and A with Pavia Justinian
The Revolutionist: What's your process as an artist, how do you bring your ideas to reality? Pavia Justinian: I really enjoy looking through found steel and other materials and seeing how I can combine them to create something new. It's a little bit like looking at clouds and finding shapes in them. Sometimes I come … Continue reading Let Zafira Dance: Q and A with Pavia Justinian
Change Making and Story Telling: A Conversation with Margaret Killjoy
Take the history of fiction… Ursula le Guin of course, but also Tolstoy. There’s this entire huge, influential lineage that descends from Tolstoy’s Christian Anarchism. Oscar Wilde…. famous as a playwright and a witty gay man, but he wrote one of the better and most widely-read anarchist socialist tracts of the 19th century, one that gets into everything we’re talking about now… it’s called The Soul of Man Under Socialism and in it he argues that the point of art isn’t to make socialism, the point of socialism is to enable us to make art. He also like, bailed anarchists out of jail. The Modern Library wrote a list of the 100 best novels of the 20th century. Three of the top 5 were written by anarchists
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