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Everyday Utopia and Radical Imagination with Kristen Ghodsee

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The Importance of Disruptions in Utopian Thinking

Tina Fey: I'm currently rereading capitalist realism for an interview that we're going to do and hopefully present that for our listeners in a few months time. And yeah, your book is incredibly inspiring and inspired from all of these 2000 years of wild experiments. So the quote from the book and it's your quote is utopian visions of how to build a different future often follow moments of great social upheaval. Ordinary people find themselves unmoored from the realities they want to believe to be fixed and immutable. The order of things is disturbed. Human events, wars, pandemics, natural disasters open up these really beautiful spaces for imagining new possibilities.

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