Pragmatic Utopianism: from Place to Process

Jaster, Daniel

doi:10.1007/s10767-021-09409-4

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“…Anche se molti studiosi sottolineano come Ernest Block avesse già anticipato i tempi proponendo una definizione processuale e pragmatica dell'Utopia (cfr Jaster 2021). …”

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Il futuro come Utopia?

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2023

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This paper aims to understand how the first phase of exit from the pandemic has changed the temporality of everyday life and produced an affective atmosphere characterized by a positive attitude towards the future. I will start by analyzing the link between utopia and everyday life: on the one hand, as a privileged area of prefigurative practices in the different versions of utopian realism, and on the other, as trapped in the present in the theories of presentification. I will then examine some emblematic cases of a ‘need for the future’ that emerged in the first exit from the pandemic in the spring-summer 2021. Finally, starting from the affective and temporally complex nature of the present as conceptualized by Berlant (Berlant, 2011; Berlant, 2008) and Coleman (Coleman, 2020b; Coleman, 2020a), I will try to account for the push toward the future that the partial exit from the pandemic has perhaps brought out.

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“…Anche se molti studiosi sottolineano come Ernest Block avesse già anticipato i tempi proponendo una definizione processuale e pragmatica dell'Utopia (cfr Jaster 2021). …”

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