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Antonin Pottier, Vincent Liegey, & Tiphaine de Rocquigny | Penser la décroissance. Les économistes face à la nature
Utopia 4/13 | READINGS
Primary Readings Blanc, Jêrome. Review of Utopies locales. Les solutions écologiques et solidaires de demain. Association RECMA 4, no. 362 (2021): 162-163. Duverger, Timothée. La décroissance, une idée pour demain. Paris: Sang de la Terre. 2011. Duverger, Timothée. Utopies locales.… Continue Reading
Cooperation Jackson’s Kali Akuno: Climate Crisis Impact Worse in Black Cities Facing Disinvestment
Kali Akuno on Cooperation and Solidarity in Jackson, Mississippi and Beyond
Kali Akuno on the Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination
Leah Haberman | Etienne Balibar’s Blueprint on Escape: What We Must Take with Us and What We Must Leave Behind on the Road to Utopia
By Leah Haberman 1. “Community is key to concrete utopias” Towards the end of Etienne Balibar’s lecture, he talked of the importance of community to the ideation, creation, and maintenance of concrete utopias. The phrase jumped out at me, and… Continue Reading
Utopia 3/13 | READINGS
Primary Readings: Chomsky, Noam. Preface to Practical Utopia. By Michael Albert. Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2017. Available online at https://niklasblog.com/?p=20601.
Utopia 2/13 | READINGS
Primary Readings: Cooperation Jackson (website). Accessed September 4, 2022. https://cooperationjackson.org/. Akuno, Kali. The Jackson-Kush Plan: The Struggle for Black Self-Determination and Economic Democracy. Undated PDF available online at https://mronline.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Jackson-KushPlan.pdf. Akuno, Kali, and Ajamu Nangwaya. Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic… Continue Reading
Utopia 1/13 | READINGS
Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto (1847), chapter 3 “Critical-Utopian Socialism and Communism” Ernst Bloch, The Spirit of Utopia (1918), chapter 1.3 “The Shape of the Inconstruable Question” Michel Foucault, “Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias” (1967/1984), trans. Jay Miskowiec, Diacritics… Continue Reading