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January 27, 2013 Ian Alan Paul

Art Threat: On efficacy and ideology: Zero Dark Thirty and the ethical justification of torture

“The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the ‘state of emergency’ in which we live is not the exception but the rule.” -Walter Benjamin Kathryn Bigelow’s film Zero Dark Thirty was met with both large audiences and waves of criticism for how the film depicted, and seemingly endorsed, the

November 28, 2012 Ian Alan Paul

Art Threat: Breaching the foreclosure of critique – Like art, critical acts generate unexpected insights and outcomes

The contemporary political moment is inflected with both optimism and collapse, unexpected insurrections and brutal repressions. In Greece, Russia, the United States, Canada, Mexico, China, Spain, and elsewhere, the current historical crisis of our economic and political order has given rise to political and aesthetic movements that have produced a multitude of ruptures and solidarities. […]