Rethinking Democracy for Post-Utopian Worlds

PART I - THE DECAY OF WESTERN POLITICS: THINKING THE END OF MODERNITY.- Utopia and Time, Mark Featherstone.- Solid and Liquid Modern Utopias: Zygmunt Bauman’s Critical Contribution to Utopia Studies; Michael Hviid Jacobsen.- Ernst Bloch and the Utopia of Law: A Bidimensional Concept of Human Dignity; Lucas Misseri.- Some Key Features of Modern Societies: Capitalism, Forms of Life and Utopia; Dario Altobelli.- New Education as Utopia; Alberto Filipe Araújo and Joaquim Machado de Araújo.- PART II - TO NOWHERE FAST: THE CRISIS OF THE NEOLIBERAL AND THE ACCELERATIONIST POLITICAL PROJECT.- 'If you take it from me, I die; if you leave it, it kills me': The Difficult Relationship Between Utopia and (Neo)Liberalism; Felipe Schwember.- Utopianism Without Hegemony: Liberal Atrophy and the Rise of the Far-Right; Chamsy El-Ojeili and Jack Foster.- Utopia is a Dead End: The Moral Problem of Getting There from Here; Eduardo Fuentes.- Reimagining the University Through Resistance; The Prefigurative Work of Trade Unions and Students’ Unions in Transcending Neoliberal Exploitation; Heather McKnight.- The Utopia of a World Without Borders; Daniel Loewe.- PART III - (POST)SOCIALIST POLITICS WITHOUT CIVIL SOCIETY.- The Russian Revolution as Utopian 'Leap'; Mark Steinberg.- The Utopian Science in a Dystopian Land of Nineteenth-Century Brazil; Eduardo Vasconcelos.- Progress Versus Catastrophe? Utopian Hope in German Marxist Anti-Fascism; Andrew Milner.- Anti-Anti-Utopia for Post-Socialist Times: Fredric Jameson’s An American Utopia in Perspective; Antonis Balasopoulos.- Utopias and Dystopias: Between Violence and Seduction; Alejandra Ríos Ramírez.- PART IV - URBAN GOVERNMENTALITIES AND NEW CITIZENSHIPS.- Socialist Surrealism: Urban Utopias of the Citizens’ Revolution; Japhy Wilson.- The Demise of Professional Utopias: Towards Participatory Urban Imagination; Rachel Kallus.- What Might a Post-Sovereign Polity Look Like On The Inside?; David Thunder.- Making Sense of Fragments: Utopian Prospects for Architecture and Cities Now; Nathaniel Coleman.- Citizenship, Community and Women in Modern Utopias: The Right to the City for Everybody; Julia Urabayen.- PART V - COMMON BEYOND POLIS: ECOPOLITICAL HOPE AS A NEW GLOBAL POLITICAL PROJECT.- Ecosocialism as Utopia; Michael Löwy.- Utopian Ecologies: The Amazonia as Environmental Futurity; Alessandra Santos and Kim Beauchesne.- Engineering Imagined Futures: Community Building Along the Erie Canal; Mark Steven Ferrara.- Food Utopias, Technological Utopianism, Tinkering, Environmental Morality; Paul V. Stock and Matt Comi.- Collaborative is Not Common: The Wonderful and Solipsistic World of Jeremy Rifkin and the Third Industrial Revolution; Jorge León Casero.