Film
An Evening with Quinn Slobodian and Hari Kunzru
- 7PM
Presented by The Baffler
In his recent book Crack-Up Capitalism, historian Quinn Slobodian describes a fractured global map of zones, libertarian laboratories, and offshore enclaves from Somalia and Liechtenstein to Hong Kong and Honduras. Hari Kunzru has explored similar terrain in his recent novel, Red Pill, as well as in his essays and his education at the Cybernetics Culture Research Unit, one of the birthplaces of accelerationism. Join Slobodian and Kunzru for a discussion of the uncanny geographies of hypercapitalism and a screening of a secret libertarian sci-fi film, made in the 1970s and set in the distant year of 2003, that somehow ties it all together.
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