Don't Fetishize Our Post-Fordism

Manicures begin at 6:30, performances at 7:00 Scaramouche is delighted to introduce an interdisciplinary event to kick off the Fall season early. Don't Fetishize Our Post-Fordism features manicures, Communist party songs, anarchy, speeches, and German opera, among other absurdities. Repurposin... Read more

Manicures begin at 6:30, performances at 7:00

Scaramouche is delighted to introduce an interdisciplinary event to kick off the Fall season early. Don’t Fetishize Our Post-Fordism features manicures, Communist party songs, anarchy, speeches, and German opera, among other absurdities. Repurposing political agency, Don’t Fetishize Our Post-Fordism posits: might subjectivity, colonized by late-capitalism, still be a perversely retooled site for Leftist agitation?

Nick Paparone begins the evening with a persuasive motivational speech; Julia Brown presents a video compilation of anarchists hurling pies at political targets; poet Ryan Daley muses on Mother Theresa, the Empire State Building, and other strange conflations of the sacred and profane; trained opera singer Arlen Austin and a chorus of beauticians conclude the program with a musical paean to the legacy of Hanns Eisler, Bertolt Brecht’s lesser-known collaborator, also known as “the Karl Marx of music.”