Image: Untitled (2007) by Pamela Wilson-Ryckman. Watercolor on paper. Courtesy of the artist.
Image: Untitled (2007) by Pamela Wilson-Ryckman. Watercolor on paper. Courtesy of the artist.
Join us at Babycastles in NYC on Saturday, March 18 for a discussion about what we’re already thinking about too much: chaos, media, and our role in all of it
Political crises now seem at once unbelievable and extremely “on the nose.” Our newsfeeds confront us with outrages all too predictable in their outlandishness, seeming to come at us with unprecedented speed yet yielding a surreal slow-motion reorganization of the same bad normal.
Staying informed seems more necessary than ever, yet it has come to feel counterproductive or even unhealthy — provoking fatigue, despair, apathy, and complicity rather than a clear way forward. Too much feels true, let alone possible.
How do we retain our bearings when we’re awash in breaking-news alerts, real-time updates and reactions buzzing in our pockets? Are our everyday technologies disrupting any shared sense of what is true? Do we even want to preserve truth and order as we’ve known it?
Join us and think more on what you’re already thinking about too much.
When: Saturday, March 18, 2017
Where: Babycastles
137 West 14th St, 2nd Fl
New York, NY 10011
Doors: 6 p.m.
Panel starts: 7 p.m.
Party After!
Panelists:
Sarah Jaffe is a reporting fellow at the Nation Institute and the author of Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt. She is the co-host of Dissent magazine’s Belabored podcast and the creator of the Interviews for Resistance series.
Muna Mire is the daughter of Somali refugees. A writer and fact checker based in Brooklyn, you can find her words and facts at the NY Times, Rolling Stone, GQ, Elle, the Nation, Atavist, the Guardian, and many other publications.
Ariana Reines is the author of The Cow, Coeur de Lion, Mercury, the Obie-winning play Telephone, & A Sand Book, forthcoming; she translated Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl by TIQQUN & other books. Art things include MORTAL KOMBAT at the Whitney & THE ORIGIN OF THE WORLD at Modern Art; she astrologizes at lazyeyehaver.com.
Moderated by: Rob Horning, an editor at Real Life.
See you there!
Real Life
March 13, 2017