ABSTRACT
In the author's view, a new utopia fit to address the contemporary impasse would need to accept that Hegelian-Marxist dialectics have now more or less completely given way to complexity in terms of their ability to imagine the present and the ways in which the now might become the next. On the basis of this painful recognition, the new utopia, what he will call a minor utopia for reasons that will become clear through my discussion, would start from a place that understands the irreducibility of the global economy. The author proposes to develop a worked-out theory of the minor utopia from the bottom line of the contemporary global system that seems bankrupt, unsustainable, and which has, paradoxically, confronted humanity with an impasse that also opens a space for critique. In this respect, he offers up the potential for the critical rethinking of fundamental social, political, economic, ecological, and philosophical questions, which is precisely the terrain of utopian speculation.
