The Miguel
Abreu gallery is well connected to the magazine
Lacanian Ink . The owner Miguel, organizes a lot of lectures from
Lacanian philosophers, such as
Sizek and
Badiou. Men who are quite popular in the US art scene, and also in Europe. This time Alain
Badiou did a talk in a packed old community theater in a poor but very nice old
jewish part of L.E.S.
' is the word 'communism' forever doomed?'In a month when
kapitalist countries, nationalize banks a very interesting question.
Mr.
Badiou was very fond on speaking about this , during these historic times, in NY. The declining Capital of
capitalism. Good moment to start thinking and talking more about other systems of states.
Capitalism has always treated other systems as criminal, as dangerous. But now, the dangers and crimes of
capitalism are shown everywhere. A new dawn, but no alternative. The communistic-
hypotheses like
Badiou names it, should be inspiring now. But should start back from the book. Not USSR or China. He's not the first one to say this of course. I read somewhere that last month Marx was the best selling author.
About Obama, very careful; 'enjoy the symbolic, but don't trust the state'.
(that hurts!)
They love a good old pessimistic
Frenchman who speaks very well, with a maximum accent. (
Ze Communiste i-pod-these)To solve the problems the world stands for, American democracy is too small, too embedded in the world dominating idea of
capitalism; it's not a possibility anymore, but a
necessity. And
Capitalism is short therm thinking. 4 years is nothing.
After the lecture I bought the NYC historical communist touristguide. Interesting because, I'm also ready ' Howard Zinn's 'American people's history' and just read a chapter about the american labor movement. As a european, my vision was only the anti-communist history of the US and nothing about the time the labor movement really meant something here.
