David Spataro
Student Fellow
David Spataro is a poet, organizer, and PhD student in geography at The Graduate Center (CUNY). Under the tutelage of Dr. Cindi Katz, Spataro’s research explores contemporary social movements whose primary goals are the provision of free basic necessities, such as food, household goods, and health-care. Spataro’s current project examines the manner in which groups such as Food Not Bombs and the Really Really Free Market deploy these strategies, which oscillate between direct services and direct action, in order to politicize everyday life.
Participating Years
2011–2012
How to Fight: Transformational Politics and Culture
In response to contemporary crises of economics and politics one often sees polemics caught between reform and revolution but this division may be false from the position of radical politics and thought. As many have shown, reform has a more radical potential, one that takes social forms seriously enough to push their limits, to create new relations, to pose, as it were, non-reformist reform. Are there philosophical, literary, and aesthetic expressions of possibility that give us some purchase on rethinking how we do what we do?