This Thursday, October 20, 2016, at 7 PM (CDT) Dr. Joshua Simon will present "The Kids Want Communism" at Northwestern University's Department of Art Theory and Practice, in collaboration with the Graham Foundation, as part of their Visiting Artist Lecture Series.
The talk will outline how the communist horizon and real existing socialism can inform our understanding of the current social and cultural, political, and economic realities we are facing with the implosion of the neoliberal order. Simon's research in the past several years has been focused on notions of materiality and subjectivity, therefore, this talk will move between animism and productivism, commodity fetish and debt economy, double negation and metabolism, shock work and the dividual.
All Chicago friends are invited to join in this evening event! More details can be found here.
Image above: El Lissitzky, Poster for the Russian Exhibition (Russische Ausstellung), Kunstgewerbemuseum Zürich, March 24- April 28, 1929.
See the full lecture here: