Laminate and phalanstre

03Sep07

Laminate and falaster: cheap Euro-remonts and residual autonomist utopias in the face of a new Bourbon restoration. The Putin years.Laminate is (cf. Wikipedia) is a cheap pseudo-Western material from the 1990s.
Falanster (Fr. phalanstre) stands for Fourier’s utopia.
The elimination of the “wild bourgeois” public sphere of the early post-perestroika has evoked a return to the utopia [...]

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