ABSTRACT
The author begins by confessing his doubts about being really qualified to speak on architecture. Architecture concerns not merely or primarily the actual building, but the virtual space of new possibilities opened up by the actual building. Furthermore, the parallax gap in architecture means that the spatial disposition of a building cannot be understood without the reference to the temporal dimension. Through the parallax gap in the object itself, time becomes space. In so far as post-68 capitalism forms a specific economic, social and cultural unity, this very unity justifies the name postmodernism. The class basis of neo-Stalinist postmodernism is thus the new wild-capitalist elite, which perceives itself as ideologically indifferent, apolitical, caring only about money and success, despising all big Causes. Consequently, one should drop all anti-market ideological utopianism and fully endorse the fact that the global market is the primary milieu of contemporary architectural politics one should operate within the system of global capitalism.
