“This crisis is the spectacle: where is the real?”

 
 

“This crisis is the spectacle: where is the real?”from Alain Badiou’s The Communist Hypothesis.  The global financial crisis is the spectacle played by the major political actors of today’s world, according to the author. Capitalism as a system does not work and the majority of the world’s population are left without access to the resources of their survival. Capitalism is “nothing but banditry and it is irrational in its essence and devastating in its becoming”, and the return to communism would be the only solution. However we have already known from our past and from the experience of the former soviet countries that communism put into practice does not work as well, and the above description of capitalism could equally fit communism. To avoid repetition will be the right thing to do as well to bring the completely new concepts and new ideas into play.

“It would be interesting to do a large project without looking backwards”, the architect says in Jonathan Meades’s article: Zaha Hadid: The first great female architect. She also had some links to the socialist context through the architectural influences of the Russian constructivists. Now she suggests that it is not necessary for the architecture to be linked to the history or should be fixed to the context: “A city without looking backwards”. Zaha as an artist breaks the rules and creates her own architectural space, but in London she has not created her buildings. Maybe this is because her projects are very expensive and as an artist she is not compromising. There is also “the British bias against women and architects”, and it is evident that the economic crisis of course has negative impact on the architecture.