Utopia 1/13 | Critical Theoretic Foundations for Concrete Utopias with Étienne Balibar

Etienne Balibar and Bernard E. Harcourt

read and discuss

Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto (1847)

Ernst Bloch, The Spirit of Utopia (1918)

Michel Foucault, “Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias” (1967/1984)

Fredric Jameson, Archaeologies of the Future (2005)

Zapatista Army of National Liberation, Sixth Declaration of the Selva Lacandonia (2005)

Erik Olin Wright, Envisioning Real Utopias (Verso 2010)

and Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek, Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics (2013)

Wednesday, September 28, 2022, 6:15-8:45 PM

Columbia University

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Utopia 2/13 | Cooperation Jackson with Kali Akuno

Kali Akuno and Bernard E. Harcourt

discuss Cooperation Jackson

and read

Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi by Kali Akuno and Ajamu Nangwaya

The Jackson-Kush Plan: The Struggle for Black Self-Determination and Economic Democracy by Kali Akuno

Wednesday, October 12, 2022, 6:15-8:45 PM

Columbia University

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Utopia 3/13 | Union Organizing and the Future of Work

Alyssa Battistoni, Dominic Walker, Helen Zhao, Joselyn Chuquillanqui, and Bernard E. Harcourt 

discuss the unionization efforts of the Student Workers of Columbia and workers at Amazon, Starbucks, and REI

and read

“Spadework” and “Labor Without Love” by Alyssa Battistoni

Wednesday, October 26, 2022, 6:15-8:45 PM

Jerome Greene Annex, Columbia University

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Utopia 4/13 | “Degrowth”: History, Theory, and Praxis

Frederic Bosquet, Françoise Gollain, Télémaque Masson-Récipon, Baptiste Mylondo, Alex Robin, Clara Ruault, and Bernard E. Harcourt

read and discuss

 La décroissance, une idée pour demain and Utopies locales. Les solutions écologiques et solidaires de demain by Timothée Duverger

Wednesday, November 9, 2022, 18h Paris / 12 noon NYC

La Librairie Utopia, 1 rue Frédéric Sauton, Paris 5e

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Utopia 5/13 | Mutualism from Praxis to Theory

Sara Horowitz, Esteban Kelly, and Bernard E. Harcourt

read and discuss

Mutualism by Sara Horowitz

Wednesday, November 30, 2022. 6:15-8:45 PM

Maison Française, Columbia University

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Utopia 6/13 | Practical Utopias with Noam Chomsky and Che Gossett

Noam Chomsky, Che Gossett, and Bernard E. Harcourt

read and discuss

“The Responsibility of Intellectuals” (1967), Part 2 of the Foucault-Chomsky Debate on Politics (1971), On Anarchism (2013), and Preface to Practical Utopia (2017) by Noam Chomsky

Wednesday, January 18, 2023, 6:15-8:45 PM

Columbia University

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Utopia 7/13 | Concrete Utopianism

Nadia Abu El-Haj, Kaiama Glover, Fred Moten, Gary Wilder, and Bernard E. Harcourt

read and discuss

Concrete Utopianism by Gary Wilder

Tuesday, February 21, 2023 at 6:15 pm

Maison Francaise, Columbia University

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Utopia 8/13 | A Conversation with Amna Akbar, Derecka Purnell, and Cornel West on the Role of Law in Progressive Politics