Utopias, Dystopias & Political Imagination
By Charlotte Stace
Utopias, Dystopias, and the Politics of Imagination is a CCCB mini-conference that looks at how fiction shapes political thinking. It’ll delve into how fiction can help us picture alternatives, diagnose democratic breakdown, and inspire conversation about the futures we’re drifting toward.
It uses writers from Margaret Atwood and Octavia Butler to Kazuo Ishiguro, Michel Houellebecq, Kim Stanley Robinson, Nnedi Okorafor and Arundhati Roy as jumping-off points for bigger questions about freedom, power, resistance and techno-optimism.It brings together philosophers, sociologists and literary critics, guided by an academic committee including Camil Ungureanu, Dilip Gaonkar, Núria Sara Miras Boronat and Miguel de Beistegui. Public-facing debates include sessions with Craig Calhoun and María Pía Lara, and another with Michel Nieva and Eudald Espluga.
It’ll be held at The Mirador (in the CCCB), primarily in English. Some sessions list tickets at €3.