Author: Astra Taylor

This collection takes its inspiration from Paul Goodman’s Growing Up Absurd, a landmark critique of American culture at the end of the 1950s. Goodman called for a revival of social investment in urba …

Sixty years ago, the political theorist Hannah Arendt, an exiled Jew deprived of her German citizenship, observed that before people can enjoy any of the ‘inalienable’ Rights of Man-before there can …

It ain’t easy being a kid these days. For the first time in generations, today’s teens have worse prospects ahead of them than their parents did, and the pressure to toe the line and be a success is …

Nach Tunis, Kairo, Madrid, Tottenham und Athen hat die globale Welle der Empörung nun auch das Auge des Sturms erreicht, die Wall Street in New York. Die Aktivisten, die am 17. September 2011 den Zuc …

From a cutting-edge cultural commentator, a bold and brilliant challenge to cherished notions of the internet as the great leveler of our age.The internet has been hailed as an unprecedented democrat …

From a cutting-edge cultural commentator and documentary filmmaker, a bold and brilliant challenge to cherished notions of the Internet as the great democratizing force of our age. The Internet has b …

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Democracy is in crisis. In every major company it has been stole by elites or in the hands of strong men. In democracy’s name we see a raft of policies that spread inequality and xenophobia worldwide …

FEATURED IN THE NEW YORKER: The Faces of Americans Living in Debt Finalist for the Dorothea Lange/Paul Taylor Prize in Documentary. Featured on Politico, in the Washington Post, the Daily Mail, and t …

Menschen haben Rechte, allein aufgrund der Tatsache, dass sie Menschen sind – so die Allgemeine Erklärung der Menschenrechte von 1948. Dem widerspricht Hannah Arendt mit ihrem Konzept vom ‘Recht, Rec …

Menschen haben Rechte, allein aufgrund der Tatsache, dass sie Menschen sind – so die Allgemeine Erklärung der Menschenrechte von 1948. Dem widerspricht Hannah Arendt mit ihrem Konzept vom ‘Recht, Rec …

Debtors have been mocked, scolded and lied to for decades. We have been told that it is perfectly normal to go into debt to get medical care, to go to school, or even to pay for our own incarceration …

Philosophy reconnects with daily life in these conversations with eight renowned thinkers—the uncut interviews from the documentary film Examined Life.   Astra Taylor’s documentary f …

Over the last decade, author and activist Astra Taylor has helped shift the national conversation on topics including technology, inequality, indebtedness, and democracy. The essays collected here re …

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When a plague wipes out most of the world’s male population and civilization crumbles, women struggle to build an agrarian community in the English countryside.Imagine a plague that brings society to …

In the fall of 2011, a small protest camp in downtown Manhattan exploded into a global uprising, sparked in part by the violent overreactions of the police. An unofficial record of this movement, Occ …

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"A New Civil Rights Leader" explores what we mean when we speak of democracy and if democracy can truly ever exist (LA Times).There is no shortage of democracy, at least in name, and yet it …