A lecture and forum for our community as we stare down the impending World Cup.

FIFA (the international body that governs soccer) is often described as the world’s largest criminal organization. What does it mean for arts and culture workers to engage with this event, which operates explicitly as a bread & circus diversion from the global crisis of the collapse of democracy? How do we address the colonization of our attention by what is at once a dynamic, engrossing spectacle, a container for ecstatic communion, and a festival of the worst our world has to offer?

Jennifer Doyle will share thoughts on the World Cup and discuss ideas for tactics that arts and culture workers might use to resist the epic levels of gaslighting that characterize the marketing of this event.