Start
Mon
,
Oct 18
1:00 pm
End
Fri
,
Oct 8
2:30 pm
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Virtual
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Talk
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Oct
18
Start
Mon
,
Oct 18
1:00 pm
End
Fri
,
Oct 8
2:30 pm
How
Virtual
Type
Talk
Location
Partner(s)

When we ask "what spaces are we fighting for," we mostly conjure ideas of existing spaces in our cities and societies. In this talk, Ilija Trojanow and Benjamin Kunkel ask us to take a step into the imaginative and inspirational - in both fiction and politics, utopia is the most important space in our democracies. After all, what are we fighting for if we don't believe a better world is possible? To quote Trojanow, “We live in times of the apocalypse. We keep dystopias like pets: imagining the end of the world is one of our favorite pastimes and a mass-culture phenomenon. Neoliberal ideology has convinced us that it’s a shitty world but nothing else is possible.”
When we ask "what spaces are we fighting for," we mostly conjure ideas of existing spaces in our cities and societies. In this talk, Ilija Trojanow and Benjamin Kunkel ask us to take a step into the imaginative and inspirational - in both fiction and politics, utopia is the most important space in our democracies. After all, what are we fighting for if we don't believe a better world is possible?
To quote Trojanow, “We live in times of the apocalypse. We keep dystopias like pets: imagining the end of the world is one of our favorite pastimes and a mass-culture phenomenon. Neoliberal ideology has convinced us that it’s a shitty world but nothing else is possible.”