Étienne Balibar will open the inaugural session of Utopia 1/13 with a lecture: “Uncovering lines of escape: towards a concept of concrete utopia in the age of catastrophes.”

Etienne Balibar and Bernard E. Harcourt will 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)

All readings available on-line here.

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