Thursday, September 1, 2005
Green Room Now
Stretcher
Bay Area Now 4
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Dan and Cheryl at Home in the Green Room - Conflating studio, home, and talk show, Dan Spencer and Cheryl Meeker moderate a discussion about the context in which Bay Area Now 4 is set. The significance of Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project and the global reach and aesthetic influence of commodity and empire will be touchstones for discussion.
Special Guests:
Antonia Juhasz is Antonia Juhasz is Director of the Chevron Program at Global Exchange, and is a policy-analyst, author, activist, and author of The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time, Regan Books, 2005.
Miryam Sas, Ph.D Yale University is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Film Studies at UC Berkeley, and author of Fault Lines: Cultural Memory and Japanese Surrealism, Stanford University Press, 1999.