Current Affairs

UNLOCKED: Astra Taylor on her radically democratic life


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UNLOCKED FROM THE BIRD FEED TO THE MAIN FEED: Current Affairs host Pete Davis sits down with filmmaker, writer and activist Astra Taylor. Check out Astra's three films — Zizek!, Examined Life, and What is Democracy? See her writing in The Nation and in her upcoming book, Democracy May Not Exist, But We'll Miss It When It's Gone. Learn about the debt strike project Astra co-founded here.

Learn more about Agnès Varda's The Gleaners and I is here.

Many thanks to Dan Thorn, at Pink Noise Studios, for editing the episode.

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