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Red May presents WHY IT HAPPENED HERE
2025
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100 minutes
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RED MAY PRESENTS A FREE SCREENING + DISCUSSION!
Why did it happen here? You tell us. How did we end up with a dictator and entourage who break the law whenever it suits them and suffer no consequences? What elements from this totally overdetermined event were the most crucial? RED MAY wants to hear what you have to say.
After an introductory cinematic collage—HOW WE GOT HERE: MELVILLE PLUS NIETZSCHE DIVIDED BY THE SQUARE ROOT OF (ALLAN) BLOOM TIMES ŽIŽEK (SQUARED) EQUALS BANNON—David Shields, author of Reality Hunger, Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump, How We Got Here, and War Is Beautiful: The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict, will be the ringmaster of this discussion, with the Beacon’s Tommy Swenson and Red May’s Philip Wohlstetter tagging along as the magician’s assistants.
RED MAY is a month-long spree of red arts, red theory, and red politics based in Seattle, Washington. We gather in bookstores, movie theaters, bars, parks, cafes, alleys, and auditoriums to share in discussion and plot ways forward toward a world in common: a world beyond capitalism.
Why did it happen here? You tell us. How did we end up with a dictator and entourage who break the law whenever it suits them and suffer no consequences? What elements from this totally overdetermined event were the most crucial? RED MAY wants to hear what you have to say.
After an introductory cinematic collage—HOW WE GOT HERE: MELVILLE PLUS NIETZSCHE DIVIDED BY THE SQUARE ROOT OF (ALLAN) BLOOM TIMES ŽIŽEK (SQUARED) EQUALS BANNON—David Shields, author of Reality Hunger, Nobody Hates Trump More Than Trump, How We Got Here, and War Is Beautiful: The New York Times Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict, will be the ringmaster of this discussion, with the Beacon’s Tommy Swenson and Red May’s Philip Wohlstetter tagging along as the magician’s assistants.
RED MAY is a month-long spree of red arts, red theory, and red politics based in Seattle, Washington. We gather in bookstores, movie theaters, bars, parks, cafes, alleys, and auditoriums to share in discussion and plot ways forward toward a world in common: a world beyond capitalism.