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“Uncovering lines of escape: towards a concept of concrete utopia in the age of catastrophes,” by Étienne Balibar
1/13 | CRITICAL THEORETIC FOUNDATIONS FOR CONCRETE UTOPIAS WITH ÉTIENNE BALIBAR

Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought
Wednesday, September 28, 2022
Maison Française, Columbia University

Etienne Balibar and Bernard E. Harcourt
read and discuss
Ernst Bloch, The Spirit of Utopia (1918)
Michel Foucault, “Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias” (1967/1984)
Fredric Jameson, Archaeologies of the Future (2005)
Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto (1847)
Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek, Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics (2013)
Erik Olin Wright, Envisioning Real Utopias (Verso 2010)
and Zapatista Army of National Liberation, Sixth Declaration of the Selva Lacandonia (2005)

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In his lecture, “Uncovering lines of escape: towards a concept of concrete utopia in the age of catastrophes,” the philosopher Étienne Balibar develops three dimensions of…