After Scarcity + The Red City of the Planet Capitalism

Bahar Noorizadeh, null, Giovanbattista Tusa (Univerdade Nova de Lisboa)

After Scarcity (31 min. 2018) is a sci-fi video-essay that tracks Soviet cyberneticians in their attempt to build a fully-automated planned economy. Flying through swarms of floating dots outlining monasteries and city streets, After Scarcity flashes through decades of history to propose the ways contingent pasts can make fictive futures realer, showing us that digital socialism was inbred into the communist revolution and that computation doesn’t mean we’re condemned to today’s tyranny of total financialization.

After Scarcity will be preceded by The Red City of the Planet of Capitalism (13 min., 2021) a 13 min. video installation that revisits proposals for a communist sprawl in the Soviet Union of 1929.

Followed by a live discussion with the filmmaker (moderated by Erik Bordeleau)  

https://www.carpintariasdesaolazaro.pt/bahar-noorizadeh?lang=en

This event will take place within the scope of the activities of the X-Centric Futures research seminar (CultureLab/IFILNOVA), coordinated by Giovanbattista Tusa, and was developed in collaboration with Centro Cultural Carpintarias de São Lázaro.

This collaborative effort aims to change the generally installed perception that the future is an inescapable and threatening age of social disruption and ecological catastrophes.
It seeks to develop rigorous critical practices and create an open platform for a dialogue between different perspectives in the redefinition of thinking in a planetary age.
Throughout the program of debates we start from the assumption that there is no humanity to come, but rather a multitude of different humanities with different futures and different pasts, whose exploration implies the development of new theoretical and practical frameworks and categories.