{"id":1150,"date":"2021-09-03T18:17:10","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T22:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/revolution1313\/?page_id=1150"},"modified":"2022-10-13T12:45:02","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T16:45:02","slug":"1-13","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/1-13\/","title":{"rendered":"1\/13 | Critical Theoretic Foundations for Concrete Utopias with \u00c9tienne Balibar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><b><span lang=\"EN-GB\">&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/etienne-balibar-uncovering-lines-of-escape-towards-a-concept-of-concrete-utopia-in-the-age-of-catastrophes\/\">Uncovering lines of escape: towards a concept of concrete utopia in the age of catastrophes<\/a>,&#8221; <\/span><\/b><\/em><b><span lang=\"EN-GB\">by\u00a0<\/span><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/etienne-balibar\/\">\u00c9tienne Balibar<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rlJS6VowQ4w\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/etienne-balibar\/\">Etienne Balibar<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/bernard-e-harcourt-host\/\">Bernard E. Harcourt<\/a><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">read and discuss<\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Ernst Bloch, <em>The Spirit of Utopia<\/em> (1918)<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Michel Foucault, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/files\/2022\/09\/Michel-Foucault_Of-Other-Spaces.pdf\">Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias<\/a>\u201d (1967\/1984)<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Fredric Jameson, <em>Archaeologies of the Future<\/em>\u00a0(2005)<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Marx and Engels, <em>The Communist Manifesto<\/em> (1847)<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek, <a href=\"https:\/\/criticallegalthinking.com\/2013\/05\/14\/accelerate-manifesto-for-an-accelerationist-politics\/\"><em>Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics<\/em><\/a> (2013)<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Erik Olin Wright,\u00a0<em>Envisioning Real Utopias<\/em> (Verso 2010)<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">and Zapatista Army of National Liberation, <a href=\"http:\/\/enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx\/sdsl-en\/\"><em>Sixth Declaration of the Selva Lacandonia <\/em><\/a>(2005)<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">(all readings available <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/utopia1313\/readings-utopia-1-13\/\">on-line here<\/a>)<\/h3>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">~ ~ ~<\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Wednesday, September 28, 2022<\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maisonfrancaise.org\">Maison Fran\u00e7aise<\/a>, Columbia University<\/h2>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">~ ~ ~<\/h1>\n<p>In his lecture, &#8220;<em><b><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Uncovering lines of escape: towards a concept of concrete utopia in the age of catastrophes<\/span><\/b><\/em><span lang=\"EN-GB\">,&#8221; the philosopher\u00a0<\/span>\u00c9tienne Balibar develops three dimensions of the urgency of rethinking concrete utopias in these times of crises: first, Balibar discusses the dilemmas surrounding the concept of utopia and utopian thinking, without which there could be no \u201cradical\u201d politics, but at a time and in an age of at least three major catastrophes (the climate, the nuclear, and the digital); second, Balibar explores \u201creal\u201d or \u201cconcrete\u201d utopias in light of the Foucauldian distinction between \u201cutopias\u201d and \u201cheterotopias,\u201d which could also be interpreted as a conversion of utopia into heterotopias; third, Balibar concludes on the transcendental problems of the different modalities of the \u201cpossible,\u201d the \u201cimpossible,\u201d the \u201cnecessary,\u201d the \u201cinevitable,\u201d in their relationship to a concept of time (e.g. Bloch\u2019s time of \u201cnot-yet\u201d), as displaced by the questioning of &#8220;utopia&#8221; in today\u2019s catastrophic circumstances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Uncovering lines of escape: towards a concept of concrete utopia in the age of catastrophes,&#8221; by\u00a0\u00c9tienne Balibar &nbsp; &nbsp; Etienne Balibar and Bernard E. 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