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The Ritual-Game: An Embodied Practice
This essay explores how values are formed not through belief or ideology, but through embodied experience. If the value we need today is interdependence…
Jan 14
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Michael Socrates Moran
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Chapter 4. The Transactional Order (Part II of II): The Path Forward
From Transaction to Gift Consciousness
Nov 19, 2025
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Chapter 4. The Transactional Order (Part I of II): Diagnosis
The Ontological Crisis Beneath Our Politics
Nov 19, 2025
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Hamlet - Director's Note
This is a director's note for the Oakland Theater Project's production of Hamlet running from September 5 - 21
Sep 5, 2025
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Michael Socrates Moran
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Poland: Theater At Freedom’s Edge
Reflections On What America Can No Longer Imagine
Jun 10, 2025
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Chapter 3: Theatre and the Birth of the Democratic Mind
Why Drama Can Help Save Democracy
May 14, 2025
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Michael Socrates Moran
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Touched: On Staying Close to the Struggle
Why we’re producing Ironbound by Martyna Majok, a play about love, survival, and the grace of those who keep fighting.
May 4, 2025
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Michael Socrates Moran
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Chapter 2: America's Entertainment Industrial Complex
What happens when spectacle replaces reality—and attention is no longer our own?
Apr 25, 2025
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Michael Socrates Moran
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