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Opis: This article examines utopianism as a historically contingent and politically ambivalent discourse shaped by its entanglement with race, Indigeneity, empire, and white supremacy. Challenging neutral or universalist accounts of utopia, it argues that modern utopian thought emerged not outside colonial modernity but through and alongside its architectures of territorial conquest, epistemic hierarchization, racial differentiation, coerced labour, and imperial governance. In its canonical form, utopia functioned as a technology of colonial futurity: it rendered land available for appropriation and extraction, positioned Europe as the agent of historical progress, and naturalized racialized forms of dispossession in the name of an ideal social order. Yet the article does not conclude that futurity itself must be abandoned. In stead, it provincializes classical utopia and asks what remains of world imagination after utopia’s colonial genealogy has been exposed. To address this, the article develops the concept of ‘entangled futures’: a con flictual field in which colonial, decolonial, Black radical, Indigenous, and anti-humanist temporalities are historically forced into relation without becoming equivalent or fully translatable. Through readings in utopian studies, settler-colonial critique, Black radical thought, critiques of Western humanism, and Indigenous futurisms, it argues that radical futurity cannot be reduced to a single emancipatory horizon. What survives the critique of utopia is not its rehabilitation as a universal ideal, but a fractured and incommensurable field of world-making.
Ključne besede: utopia, colonial futurity, settler colonialism, entangled futures, radical futurity
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Opis: Under conditions of generalized reified abstraction–a historically sedimented condition in which mediating forms forget they are mediating and present themselves as reality itself– utopia has lost its critical function and become indistinguishable from ideology. Where Paul Ricoeur argued that the tension between ideology and utopia is unsurpassable, this essay contends that the tension has already col lapsed. Utopia has been absorbed into ideology rather than correcting it, leaving what Marx called ‘the language of real life’ without a foothold. Against this diagnosis, the essay proposes Albert Camus’s notion of ‘relative utopia’ as a specifically adequate response to the conditions of reified abstraction, one that builds the critique of abstraction into its own structure by refusing the consolation of any ground, including the ground of hope itself. Reading Camus along side the nineteenth-century Balkan poet Konstantin Miladinov and his poem ‘T’ga za jug’ (Longing for the South), the essay argues that relative utopia is not a chastened utopianism but a form of first praxis, an orientation without innocence: limit, doubt, and attachment to the other and to a world accepted as flawed and yet worth the effort.
Ključne besede: relative utopia, abstraction, Albert Camus, Konstantin Miladinov, praxis
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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
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