Posts tagged: utopia

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  Emerging Futures

  A reading list of utopian thinking featuring Leslie Kern, Aaron Bastani, James Bridle, Andrea Long Chu, and Lizzie O’Shea.

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  Ernst Bloch — Francesc Abad: Correspondences

  There is something both refreshing and salutary in rediscovering Ernst Bloch, the philosopher of utopia, at this most anti-utopian age. 

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  World Reduction in Le Guin

  Fredric Jameson on Ursula K. Le Guin's method of radical abstraction and simplification.

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  Debt and Utopia

  As the experience of Strike Debt has shown, it has proven difficult to aggregate acts of defiance and default into a political force. Must Utopia go further, then: not just to erase the debts we have, but to break the economic and legal apparatuses that create debt, in order to ensure that nobody will need to go into debt ever again?

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  Arguments Within English Marxism: Utopias

  Perry Anderson probes Edward Thompson's work on William Morris and his defense of utopianism.  

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  Fredric Jameson: Universal Conscription and the Citizens' Army

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  Fredric Jameson: Wal-Mart as Utopia

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  New Babylon