"But for what purposes is utopia invoked in our times, in this period of late capitalism, beyond the so-called ‘end of ideologies’, marked by the waning of the Cold-War era and collapse of the Soviet empire. Does utopia – the ‘no-place’ that is the ‘happy place’ – hold any lessons for us? Is it still the figure of future hope? Or is utopia simply a convenient term for the historicization of the aspirations of modernity and its programmes of social change?"
course text from the Bartlett School