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Hope Against Hope: Utopia in Four Movements

Never has the utopian impulse seemed closer to realization and yet never has its hope been so permanently extinguished than in the past century. It is precisely these events, and a concern for the century without such a hope presently yawning in front of us, that motivates filmmaker Sam Green’s new work in progress, Utopia in Four Movements.

It’s your sadness, idiot.

I don’t want to reveal any names, but I was recently told that Simon Critchley, following a conference somewhere on the Iberian Peninsula, invited another philosopher to go see the Chemical Brothers, as he had an extra ticket. At the concert the second philosopher suffered a mild heart attack and was forced to cancel all [...]