Dinerstein suggests that Marx’s critique of political economy constitutes the most unforgiving critique of capitalist society. Bloch’s time of “not-yet”), as displaced by the questioning of “utopia” in today’s catastrophic circumstances. Concrete utopias are ‘denaturalising’ capitalist-colonial society as they are negating the given and creating alternative practices at the grass roots. In his lecture, “ Uncovering lines of escape: towards a concept of concrete utopia in the age of catastrophes ,” the philosopher Étienne Balibar develops three dimensions of the urgency of rethinking concrete utopias in these times of crises: first, Balibar discusses the dilemmas surrounding the concept of utopia and utopian thinking, without which there could be no “radical” politics, but at a time and in an age of at least three major catastrophes (the climate, the nuclear, and the digital) second, Balibar explores “real” or “concrete” utopias in light of the Foucauldian distinction between “utopias” and “heterotopias,” which could also be interpreted as a conversion of utopia into heterotopias third, Balibar concludes on the transcendental problems of the different modalities of the “possible,” the “impossible,” the “necessary,” the “inevitable,” in their relationship to a concept of time (e.g. Harcourt read and discuss Ernst Bloch, The Spirit of Utopia (1918) Michel Foucault, “ Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias” (1967/1984) Fredric Jameson, Archaeologies of the Future (2005) Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto (1847) Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek, Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics (2013) Erik Olin Wright, Envisioning Real Utopias (Verso 2010) and Zapatista Army of National Liberation, Sixth Declaration of the Selva Lacandonia (2005) (all readings available on-line here) ~ ~ ~ Wednesday, SeptemMaison Française, Columbia University ~ ~ ~ “Concrete Utopia” will hit theaters on August 9.“ Uncovering lines of escape: towards a concept of concrete utopia in the age of catastrophes,” by Étienne BalibarĮtienne Balibar and Bernard E. Toward the end, the clip previews a tense confrontation between the Hwang Goong Apartment residents, who try to protect their own family and their apartments, and the outsiders, who try to fight for their own survival. Min Sung (Park Seo Joon), who just wants to protect his family, and Myung Hwa (Park Bo Young), who wants to keep her faith and survive altogether, argue with each other over the cruel situation in front of their eyes. As the individual characters’ desires for survival get bigger and more desperate, people start to feel threatened by the outsiders and eventually drive them out of the apartment. The atmosphere suddenly changes completely when unidentified survivors from outside arrive at the Hwang Goong Apartments. Young Tak narrates, “I have a feeling that our apartment has been chosen.” Having become the temporary leader of the residents of Hwang Goong Apartments, he takes the lead in gathering people and making the apartment into a fort. The main teaser begins with Young Tak (Lee Byung Hun) standing alone amidst a devastated apartment buildings after an earthquake. The film will follow the story that begins when the survivors gather at Hwang Goong Apartments, the only building left standing in an earthquake-ravaged Seoul. Loosely based on Part 2 of the hit webtoon “Joyful Outcast” (“Pleasant Neighbors”), “Concrete Utopia” is a new disaster thriller about the aftermath of a devastating earthquake. Park Seo Joon, Park Bo Young, and Lee Byung Hun’s upcoming film “Concrete Utopia” has unveiled the main trailer!
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