Event Registration
Broke, Tight & Stressed; Deep Study Session with Nora Treatbaby
Admission
- $100.00
Location
St. Mark's Parish Hall
131 East 10th St.
New York, NY 10003
131 East 10th St.
New York, NY 10003
Summary
Date & Time: March 11th, 7–10pm, In-Person, Parish Hall, St Mark’s Church, 131 E 10th St.
Description: For the last several decades, the American worker has suffered under a spiraling bipartisan agenda to disempower labor, undo progressive taxation, slash the social wage, and generally enact a regime of austerity and stagnation. These forces have come to what feels like a climax with the inflation of the post-Covid Biden years. Can't afford a house. Can't afford rent. Can't afford shit. From this crisis emerges an atmosphere of desperation and edginess, an inner panic one carries around with them. In response, we have seen this year the rise of 'Affordability Politics', most exemplified by the stunning rise of Zohran Mamdani. His campaign for mayor used a laser focus on affordability to upend political messaging across the ideological spectrum. This deep study will be a discussion on how we are to write through this long moment of financial precarity. We will spend our time thinking through the vibe of material peril, how personal this atmosphere of economic dread can feel. This session will look at both art and world, in order to find places where our language can effectively connect the two. We will examine the work of poets like Amiri Baraka, Bernadette Mayer, and Sean Bonney, and take a hard look at political rhetoric over the long decades of neoliberalism about how politicians have wielded this terror to power.
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Description: For the last several decades, the American worker has suffered under a spiraling bipartisan agenda to disempower labor, undo progressive taxation, slash the social wage, and generally enact a regime of austerity and stagnation. These forces have come to what feels like a climax with the inflation of the post-Covid Biden years. Can't afford a house. Can't afford rent. Can't afford shit. From this crisis emerges an atmosphere of desperation and edginess, an inner panic one carries around with them. In response, we have seen this year the rise of 'Affordability Politics', most exemplified by the stunning rise of Zohran Mamdani. His campaign for mayor used a laser focus on affordability to upend political messaging across the ideological spectrum. This deep study will be a discussion on how we are to write through this long moment of financial precarity. We will spend our time thinking through the vibe of material peril, how personal this atmosphere of economic dread can feel. This session will look at both art and world, in order to find places where our language can effectively connect the two. We will examine the work of poets like Amiri Baraka, Bernadette Mayer, and Sean Bonney, and take a hard look at political rhetoric over the long decades of neoliberalism about how politicians have wielded this terror to power.