ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author begins with a few words on what he mean by radical utopianism and complicity, in which he will distinguish between two versions of utopianism: blueprint utopianism and radical utopianism. He argues that radical utopianism offers a form of resistance to dominant constructions of reality and our complicity with them. Radical utopianism confronts ‘realism’ with possibility. The author explains about an opposition between the social construction of reality and radical utopianism. Desire is one of the things that make us human. Advertising tries to colonize and satisfy it with commodity solutions, buy enough of the right things and all dreams will come true. The role of the teaching of desire is to make change conceivable, while the role of educated hope is to believe that it is possible. Conservative accounts of human nature are often used against the possibility of radical change.
