“You focus on the end of the world, while we’re worrying about the end of the month”– says a French yellow vest rebel.
At the center of politics we find a void: the always yet-to-be-realized, perpetually delayed, promise of a better tomorrow – ‘if not for us than for our children.’ The future’s seduction rests in its operation as a fantasy screen wherein our collective fears and hopes are given shape as consistent social identities. In the talk, Noah Brehmer will analyze and critique techno-communisms radical visions of a future beyond capitalism through sound-environments – ranging from historical British cyber-punk raves and the quantum afro-futurists of Detroit, to present local cases of ISLA’s escapist