Part 1: Cutting into the Present
“Remastering the Early Avant-Garde”

Saturday, December 5th, 8:00–10:00 PM

DISCUSSION
The following meeting’s discussion will take its point of departure from Jean-Luc Godard’s La Chinoise (1967) and Chris Marker’s The Last Bolshevik (1993), two films that attempt to grapple often experimentally with the passionate hopes and disappointments that animated revolutionary politics in the 20th century.

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ÉTIENNE DOLET, Margin of Utility/ LUDWIG FISCHER , A Fearless Foot and an Unscrupulous Mind (A Scream from the Extremity)/ ALEXI KUKULJEVIC, Leaving No Maggot Lonely: Bruce Nauman at the PMA/ ZACH ROCKHILL, Collage from Chris Marker’s “La Jetée” and a Daily News cover story/ THEODORE TUCKER, Fossils from Our Future/ HOLLY MARTINS, 119 West Montgomery Avenue, Philadelphia PA/ AVI ALPERT, “We’re not even sure of carrots (whether they’re what we think they are, how poisonous they are, who grew them and under what circumstances).”/ MACHETE Interviews JACQUES RANCIÈRE Farewell to Artistic and Political Impotence