Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia

because there was no coherent idea of an imagined shopper.

Political and economic visions, belief systems and cultures are all suddenly up for grabs. With the collapse or serious decay of many (mostly Western) critical narratives – like the social contract, popular democracy, human rights and the right to privacy – comes a need to either refresh and resuscitate these ideals, replace them with older, alread

“Tell everyone that the future will be radiant and beautiful,” Chernyshevsky wrote. “Love it, strive toward it, work for it, bring it nearer, transfer into the present as much as you can from it.”3

All that exists is a relentlessly changing digital present tense.

global restlessness, a pervasive shift of imagination and desire—that