Astra Taylor

Astra Taylor is the director of the documentary films What Is Democracy?,  Zizek!, and Examined Life. She has written for The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Baffler, n+1 and other outlets. She is the author of The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age (2014) and Democracy May Not Exist, But We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone (2019).