Om efter krig och kapitalism

“What I call the postwar bourgeois society lives in marvelous denial of the other Beirut that coexists side by side. These places are about pleasure and the difficulty of pleasure sometimes, the absurdity of those situations, and what it means politically and socially. They’re about a very modern and almost postmodern capitalist society that has gone out of control but that still can be celebrated—in a critical way but still celebrated. They are not moralistic projects; they are not about what is good or what is bad. They are about the harshness and sometimes the beauty of those realities.”*