A secret question hovers over us, a sense of disappointment, a broken promise we were given as children about what our adult world was supposed to be like.
Lecture at the SVA on the future
19 Jan 2012
David Graeber: On Bureaucratic Technologies & the Future as Dream-Time / 01.19.2012 @ SVA
Screenings, seminars & more take the stage at the multipurpose School of Visual Arts theatre in New York.
The twentieth century produced a very clear sense of what the future was to be, but we now seem unable to imagine any sort of redemptive future. How did this happen? One reason is the replacement of what might be called poetic technologies with bureaucratic technologies. Another is the terminal perturbations of capitalism, which is increasingly unable to envision any future at all.