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By Muqeet Drabu “Ultimately, I believe that […] the key issue at stake in utopian imagination, especially the “socialist” utopias, is a quest for the retrieval or the replacement of the lost community […]” – Etienne Balibar[1] “to be human… Continue Reading →

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 →

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 →

By Dorothea Nikolaidis “What ought to be is, and at the same time is not. If it were, it would not be what merely ought to be.” — W. F. Hegel, The Science of Logic[1] “The theoretical consciousness autonomized in ideology, and the spontaneous representation… Continue Reading →

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 →

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 Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi. Wakefield, QC: Daraja… Continue Reading →