Mind Crunch Weekly

• The Decline of Theatre DramaturgyFebruary 18, 2025
  Dramaturgy is a mysterious thing. You’re never quite sure where it begins or where it ends. It’s like trying to sketch the edges of a foggy landscape—everything is hazy. Nobody really knows where dramaturgy stops, but we all know where it starts: the moment a theatre piece is first proposed, when the seed of an… Read more: The Decline of Theatre Dramaturgy
• The Gardener’s Struggle with CapitalFebruary 11, 2025
  The protagonist of Jiří Havelka’s movie The Gardener’s Year (2024, available on Netflix with English subtitles) is a silent master of passive resistance. Not uttering a word, the Gardener endures violence, injustice, and the toothlessness of bureaucracy. In an astounding Gandhi-style struggle, he does nothing but exist and insist: like a boulder in the path… Read more: The Gardener’s Struggle with Capital
• The Ruins of UtopiaFebruary 4, 2025
  At the beginning of February, a major retrospective of Czech design just ended at the Sovovy Mlýny gallery. I managed to see it literally under the wire. Museum Kampa is a prominent example of a successful private and commercial art institution—a role model and apparent evidence of the self-sustainability of the capitalist model in the… Read more: The Ruins of Utopia

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