Laminate and phalanstre
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 (offworld) of the interior: little monadic habitats, datcha sci-fi like Tarkovsky’s Solaris maybe, states of inner emigration, paying the price of politics to gain some conditional autonomy. But this habitat is always made of neocapitalism’s cheap laminate.
Cultural work – artistic and literary practices, sublated and performatized in productive activities like translation or copywriting – must locate itself at this intersection.
Laminate and falanster.
It has to do with the work of Ira Korina, I guess.
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