Mobility and Post Democracy: Prefigurative Politics on the Eve of the US Presidential Elections Monday, November 7, 2016 at 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm Starr Foundation Hall, University Center<https://events.newschool.edu/starr_foundation_hall_ul102_lower_level_670> 63 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003 | The New School More info: https://events.newschool.edu/event/mobility_and_post_democracy_prefigurative... The success of socialist Bernie Sanders in the Democratic presidential primaries as well as the nomination of real estate tycoon Donald Trump as Republican presidential candidate reveals the dissatisfaction of many Americans with a political system that is mired in middle-of-the-road positions. How can we think about organizing beyond the affordances of the current political system? This seminar on prefigurative politics and social movement strategy addresses historical examples as well as contemporary manifestations of utopian societies that realize their own political ideals outside of mainstream society. More on the series Mobility and Post Democracy: Post Democracy<http://www.veralistcenter.org/learn/3/focus-theme-/> has recently arisen as a complex and contradictory term: for some it promises a new participatory platform for the mobilizing forces of social media, while others lament democracy's demise as the result of international intervention in domestic politics. Decried as "democratic melancholy," such skepticism is considered ill placed by yet others for whom "democracy" was never a political system to aspire to. Under the heading Mobility in Post Democracy, the Vera List Center presents a series of interdisciplinary panels, seminars, and lectures that examine Post Democracy as a condition informed by mobility-across institutions, states, and ideologies. The series brings together an international group of scholars, activists, students, and artists to probe the concept of Democracy. This event sponsored by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics<https://www.newschool.edu/vera-list-center/> at The New School. Free; No tickets or reservations required.