Waiting for the Spectacle to End
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Waiting for the Spectacle to End connects Samuel Beckett's absurdist play Waiting for Godot (1954) with the ephemeral material from the May Day Rooms archive in order to allegorically build upon the theoretical works of Mark Fisher in relation to the conditions of life under neoliberalism and its impact on cultural sterility and sense of cultural time. It explores the hauntology of the 20th century counterculture against reactionary narratives, and interrogates the archive in its suspended temporality as a lens through which a new sense of radical urgency can be construed outside of the horizons eclipsed by capitalist realism.