Democracy and Disappointment: On the Politics of Resistance, Ala

Plot Synopsis by Nathan Southern
Co-edited, produced and chaired by Simon Critchley and Aaron Levy, in conjunction with the 2007-8 RBSL Bergman Foundation Curatorial Seminar at the University of Pennsylvania, this release features a conversation with the said intellectuals on the politics of resistance. Prior to November 2007, research had been conducted by Penn students at the Bergman Seminar on a diverse array of subjects including literature, technology and geopolitics; their work culminated with this discussion by Levy and Critchley on the disappointment attached to the limitations of modern democracy.