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Opis: This article examines John Knight’s installation The Right to Be Lazy as a material and conceptual articulation of utopia grounded in negation, ecological processes, and imagination. Drawing on Paul La fargue’s critique of labour, Gaston Bachelard’s theory of material imagination, and Ernst Bloch’s notion of the ‘not-yet,’ the text reconceptualizes laziness not as inactivity but as a productive suspension of instrumental action. The unmanaged growth of weeds within a controlled garden setting becomes a model for utopian potential embedded in the present, revealing alternative temporalities and modes of perception. By foregrounding soil, roots, and spontaneous vegetation, the article argues that material processes themselves harbour anticipatory, world-making capacities. Laziness thus emerges as a political and aesthetic practice that interrupts capitalist imperatives of productivity and immediacy. Ultimately, the essay positions ‘weed utopia’ as a form of immanent critique, where negation, imagination, and ecological vitality converge to reopen possibilities for collective transformation.
Ključne besede: utopia, laziness, material imagination, negation, weeds
Objavljeno v RUP: 21.08.2026; Ogledov: 177; Prenosov: 13
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