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Derecka Purnell
Derecka Purnell is a human rights lawyer, researcher, and author of Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom. She works to end police and prison violence by providing legal assistance, research, and training in community based organizations through… Continue Reading
Utopia 8/13 | READINGS
West, Cornel. “The Role of Law in Progressive Politics.” Vanderbilt Law Review 43, no. 6 (1990): 1797-1806.
Cornel West
Cornel West is one of our leading thinkers in this country today. He is the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice at Union Theological Seminary and holds the title of Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He has also… Continue Reading
Josh Jacob | A Defense of Government
By Josh Jacob In Mutualism, Sara Horowitz presents a beautiful vision of cooperation and democratic participation: civil society associations like unions, co-ops, religious groups, and mutual aid groups satisfying the needs of their communities through place-based organizing. It’s certainly a… Continue Reading
Elias Passas | Reflection After the Discussion on Mutualism: A Better World
By Elias Passas Early on in the discussion, Esteban Kelly expressed his dissatisfaction with the protest call: a better world is possible. Perhaps due to his personality, he said, he had more of a penchant with actually building things—tethering himself… Continue Reading
Julia Fay | Utopia as Ritual: The Possibility of Regenerative Utopias
By Julia Fay Towards the end of Utopia 1/13, during the question-and-answer portion of the lecture, Professor Ann Stoler and Professor Kendall Thomas asked complementary questions about utopia as praxis. Professor Stoler proposed focusing on the idea of utopia as… Continue Reading
Anna Belle Newport | Defining Utopia’s Temporal Dimension
By Anna Belle Newport As Professor Harcourt articulated in the introduction to the 1/13 seminar, we are more comfortable using the term dystopia than utopia—and for good reason. We are surrounded by concrete dystopian realities, which in turn instills in… Continue Reading
Christopher Alter | Labor Unions as Heterotopias, Concrete Utopias, or Mere First Steps?
By Christopher Alter I. Introduction In the Introduction to Utopia 3/13, Professor Harcourt explains that hosting “a seminar on union organizing . . . is not to suggest, by any means, that unions or union organizing are ‘utopian.’”[1] Harcourt instead… Continue Reading
Laëtitia Riss
ENG : Laëtitia Riss holds a master’s degree in political theory (Sciences Po Paris) and in literature theory (EHESS/ENS). She conducted a first investigation on real utopias, for a research paper entitled: “L’archipel d’un autre pays. Rethinking utopia today” (May… Continue Reading