The Utopian Impulse & Its Trouble With Postmodernity
One might argue that the collapse of communism is the loss of the
future that really never was, but the fundamental source of fear of
Utopianism is rooted in its formal necessity of Utopian closure and
its origin in the idea of an idealized settlement and
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Céline Keller We seem to drown in dystopias reflecting our
surrender to the idea that there really is no alternative to
capitalism or neoliberalism in particular. All these critical
dystopias seem to extrapolate our current situation and what the
persistence of this system (the economization of everything) holds
in store for us in the future to come. It seems clear that if
we want to escape this hopeless outcome we need new ideas
for how a future globalized world might work differently.
Yet, to generate those ideas using the Utopian impulse seems
to be a door closed shut. So how do we get out of this
dilemma? I will present to you Fredric Jameson's vision of how
to burst that door wide open, with one of the oldest, archaic
utopian ideas ever stated.
surrender to the idea that there really is no alternative to
capitalism or neoliberalism in particular. All these critical
dystopias seem to extrapolate our current situation and what the
persistence of this system (the economization of everything) holds
in store for us in the future to come. It seems clear that if
we want to escape this hopeless outcome we need new ideas
for how a future globalized world might work differently.
Yet, to generate those ideas using the Utopian impulse seems
to be a door closed shut. So how do we get out of this
dilemma? I will present to you Fredric Jameson's vision of how
to burst that door wide open, with one of the oldest, archaic
utopian ideas ever stated.
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