I. Introduction Apparently, in countries like Australia and the United Kingdom, it’s common for defense attorneys and prosecutors to refer to each other as “my friend” or “my learned friend.”[1] Earlier this semester, I participated as a pretend-juror for a… Continue Reading
By Dorothea Nikolaidis On Beasts and Gods[1] What are the proper limits of utopian desire? Initially this question might strike us as misguided. In our everyday speech, utopianism stands for a kind of social imagination unbounded by the constraints of… Continue Reading
By Tyler Ritchie One of the topics that has come up repeatedly in the last few weeks of Utopia seminars is the restrictive nature of late capitalism. The question was invoked by Kendall Thomas’ compelling slideshow about the Cosmopolitan Hotel… Continue Reading
By Payoshi Roy “How can progressive lawyers remain relatively true to their moral convictions and political goals”? To call oneself progressive is a bit presumptive[1]. It is I believe a label that can be given by others and only in… Continue Reading
By Christopher Alter I. Introduction Does cosmopolitanism provide a concrete vision of utopian ideals or is it too bogged down with free-market apologia to represent a utopia for anyone other than capitalists? On Wednesday, April 12, Bernard Harcourt hosted a… Continue Reading
By Joshua M. Jacob Reinhold Martin begins the introductory chapter to his 2010 book, Utopia’s Ghost: Architecture and Postmodernism, Again, with examples of the eclipse of modernism by postmodernism. Martin mentions the evolution of the 1930s International Business Machine (IBM)… Continue Reading
By Felicity Scott Struggling with what to contribute to Bernard Harcourt’s remarkable conversations about “concrete utopias,” what in the Epilog to the 10/13 session he called “actually existing political initiatives, projects and experiments that relate to a possible utopian future,”… Continue Reading
By Zartosht Ahlers In Architecture and Utopia, Manfredo Tafuri paints a deeply pessimistic view of the role of architecture in utopic thought. At one level, Tafuri highlights the impact of market forces that commandeer the intellectual ambitions of architecture.[1] More… Continue Reading
By Reinhold Martin Originally intending to title these comments “Utopian Realism, Again,” I’ve opted instead to emphasize the timeliness of utopian thought and action while also emphasizing their inherent untimeliness. The fact that, in Thomas More’s original, Utopia is a… Continue Reading