The HEC will be producing works of cultural commentary to reconcile opposing sides, in conjunction with hosting salon-style spaces for people to talk about important issues and difficult ideas while resisting their reflexive reduction to existing ideological oppositions. We also seek to create new forms of dialectical mediation between opposing viewpoints in Western society, and point the way to solutions that transcend reduction and polarization produced by the status quo. As a women-led initiative, the HEC seeks to prioritize women’s voices in critiquing stereotyped political logic from a socially grounded perspective.
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There’s a series of scenes from the show The Sopranos where the mob wives try to be sophisticated and “elevate” themselves beyond the status of dormant, spoiled wives of criminals.
They have brunch and movie clubs. But they always become bored, create echo chambers supporting each other’s nonsensical analyses, or they just end up with conversations about vanity.
Cagney was modernity