{"id":118,"date":"2026-04-09T12:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/?p=118"},"modified":"2026-04-09T12:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:40:10","slug":"nucusp-reading-group-exploring-abensour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/2026\/04\/09\/nucusp-reading-group-exploring-abensour\/","title":{"rendered":"NUCUSP reading group: exploring Abensour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We&#8217;re meeting on <strong>Tuesday April 28th<\/strong> <strong>1-3.30pm HDB.1.04<\/strong> to talk through a couple of readings linked to Miguel Abensour&#8217;s utopian theorising:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Feel free to join us for a discussion of one or both readings &#8211; drop in and out as suits. \u00a0Bring your own coffee, we\u2019ll provide some snacks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1.00pm\u00a0<\/strong>Abensour, Miguel, \u2018William Morris: The Politics of Romance\u2019, in\u00a0<em>Revolutionary Romanticism<\/em>, ed. and trans. by M. Blechman (City Lights Books, 1999), pp. 125\u201359.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2.30pm\u2002<\/strong>Holflod, K., Bayne, S., &amp; N\u00f8rg\u00e5rd, R. T. (2026). &#8216;Utopia, hope and desire in education futures.&#8217;\u00a0<em>Arts and Humanities in Higher Education.\u00a0<\/em>Online first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/14740222251412851\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/14740222251412851<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/04\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-119\" style=\"width:224px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/04\/image-1.png 900w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/04\/image-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/04\/image-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/04\/image-1-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re meeting on Tuesday April 28th 1-3.30pm HDB.1.04 to talk through a couple of readings linked to Miguel Abensour&#8217;s utopian theorising: Feel free to join us for a discussion of one or both readings &#8211; drop in and out as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/2026\/04\/09\/nucusp-reading-group-exploring-abensour\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7558,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7558"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}