Crealism Comes to Iceland

A French philosopher envisions an utopian Iceland

2.2.2011

Words by Alda Kravec

Photos by Arnaud Meyer

Luis de Miranda, philosopher, novelist and publisher, is the mind behind a new philosophy he calls ‘Crealism’. He was in Iceland last November as part of a series of lectures, organised in collaboration with the University of Iceland, which aimed to "take stock" of the role of neoliberalism in Iceland's socio-political order. Crealism (French: “Le Créalisme”) is a concept in large part born out of Miranda's readings of Jacques Lacan, Karl Marx, Gilles Deleuze and Martin Heidegger between 2003-2007 Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Broadly speaking, Crealism involves a particular set of ontological premises about reality and human nature on one hand, and a critique of capitalism on the other. Although Miranda has published several books and articles, very little of his work has been translated from French. In order to get better acquainted with Crealism, the Grapevine attended two lectures Miranda gave while he was in town and then spoke to him on the subject. 

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