Coming Up For Air

By: Hannah Proctor

A new speculative fiction about a revolutionary near future takes the form of an oral history project with inhabitants of the New York Commune, and imagines how abolitionist theories might play out in practice.

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Fredric Jameson’s 2004 essay ‘The Politics of Utopia’ concludes by suggesting that although utopias by definition don’t exist, they should not be viewed as strictly fictional: ‘Utopias in fact come to us as barely audible messages from a future that may never come into being.’ Though he considers how utopian imaginings reflect the anxieties and […]

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Fredric Jameson’s 2004 essay ‘The Politics of Utopia’ concludes by suggesting that although utopias by definition don’t exist, they should not be viewed as strictly fictional: ‘Utopias in fact come to us as barely audible messages from a future that may never come into being.’ Though he considers how utopian imaginings reflect the anxieties and […]

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Fredric Jameson’s 2004 essay ‘The Politics of Utopia’ concludes by suggesting that although utopias by definition don’t exist, they should not be viewed as strictly fictional: ‘Utopias in fact come to us as barely audible messages from a future that may never come into being.’ Though he considers how utopian imaginings reflect the anxieties and […]

Fredric Jameson’s 2004 essay ‘The Politics of Utopia’ concludes by suggesting that although utopias by definition don’t exist, they should not be viewed as strictly fictional: ‘Utopias in fact come to us as barely audible messages from a future that may never come into being.’ Though he considers how utopian imaginings reflect the anxieties and […]

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