Betti-Sue's blog

T.J. Demos on the big picture.

I am fascinated by the signs at the Women’s March. Here’s my essay on one topic that always needs constant stalwart attention.

In spite of some fuzziness regarding the difference between various historical forms of fascism, I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical of what I would like to call Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism. These features cannot be organized into a system; many of them contradict each other, and are also typical of other kinds of despotism or fanaticism. But it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it.

Wendell Berry

a new site with reflections on ideas in performance, edited by Shannon Jackson and Paula Marincola

So honored to be a member of the Lion Mountain Park team as the public art consultant. It’s an amazing design and the site is both historic and inspiring!

My recent interview in Art Africa on the 2014 Public Intimacy exhibition at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is perfectly timed to coincide with the now available related publication available through Artbook.com (http://www.artbook.com/9780982678978.html) and other online venues.

Potlatch masks in Aleta Bay

A wonderful essay in conversation with Denis Diderot’s” Letter to the Blind for the Use of Those Who See” (1749).

A must read by Roddey Reid that goes way beyond Trump’s bully tactics into the status of bullying in the workplace and more.