Ambiguity is a window into a situation. This image poses a false choice- the answer of course is that we have to fight both, but asking the question this way raises more questions about what’s possible, and what’s more pressing.
More by Roger Peet
Posts by Roger Peet
The Historical Imagination
November 19, 2013
On a grim and drippy morning earlier this week I sat in my house reading an article about slave capitalism in the magazine n+1, specifically a review of Walter Johnson’s…
No More Jaguars
April 8, 2009
That’s all, folks! The last Jaguar in the United States has been killed. The beast in question, a sixteen year old male named “Macho B”, was euthanized by state biologists…
Art Build Techniques for Protest
January 6, 2017
Bay-Area arts organizer David Solnit has been making art for protest movements for decades, and has established a practice of simple, reliable techniques for amplifying messages in the streets. I’ve…
NO LNG Propaganda Party at PNCA in Portland
March 15, 2018
In early March I helped to organize a banner-painting Propaganda Party at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, over three lunchtimes in the school’s central atrium. I’m the Cultural…