Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

The debate in the comments below let me to revisit the work we did at the Collective Arts Think Tank a couple years ago. It’s largely centered on the dread cultural hub of New York, but it’s relevant, I think, beyond our borders. And I think Scott Walters and I have lots of crossover –…

In reading this article, and the responses in the comments section, and on other sites, most of which seem to engage in the, “Jane you ignorant slut” style of debate, I started to feel a little crazy. One of the things I want most for people in the arts to do is stop complaining about…

Beautiful interview between Creative Time’s Nato Thompson and filmmaker (and target of harassment and surveillance by US intelligence agencies) Laura Poitras: LISTEN What is amazing here is how deeply and fluently the conversation moves among history, craft, aesthetic, politics and meaning.

I rented this documentary last night. It’s about The Replacements. I was lucky enough to grow up in Minneapolis in the 80’s, while they were at their best/worst, and I am easy prey for nostalgia trips about that time. For the first five minutes my resistance was up – the film is full of terrible documentary…

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Here is a quote from Jacques Ranciere, who has been instrumental in shaping the way we think about City Council Meeting From Dissensus, page 58 (in my edition) “In the winter of 1995 in France there was a long public transport workers’ strike. An outpouring of…arguments sought to portray these workers as individuals out to…

When I teach, talk to artists and think about my life as a theater artist, I have been using the phrase “Do less with more,” as a counter to the crisis mode that seems embedded in much of the art production I see around me. I’ve talked about this in other forums – last year…

Getting ready to go to Houston again, to work on The Frogs at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center and City Council Meeting, at DiverseWorks, reminded me how much I liked working down there before. Below is a clip of a dress rehearsal for What You’ve Done, a DiverseWorks and Project Row House co-production, featuring Eleanor…