Tag: architecture

Situationism: The Art of the Dérive

John Michael Greer230 Comments

Our explorations of Situationism, that eccentric twentieth-century offspring of a drunken amour between avant-garde European art and radical post-Marxist politics, have already led in strange directions. The ground we’ve covered so far extends from postwar Paris to Lower Slobbovia and from Marxist dialectical materialism to the occult perspectives that most Marxists despise utterly. Nonetheless the…

An Empire of Dreams

John Michael Greer339 Comments

There’s a fond belief among the comfortable classes of our time, and for that matter every other time, that the future can be arranged in advance through reasonable discussions among reasonable people.  Popular though this notion is, it’s quite mistaken. What history shows, rather, is that the future is always born on the irrational fringes…

Toward the Next America

John Michael Greer351 Comments

When I mentioned in a post two weeks ago that America was heading into a new phase of its history, and that I would be offering some suggestions about what that next phase might look like, I was far from sure how to begin that conversation.  As happens fairly often these days, however, current events…