{"id":96,"date":"2026-01-15T13:26:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T13:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/?p=96"},"modified":"2026-01-15T13:30:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T13:30:02","slug":"critical-utopia-capital-nature-desire-14th-jan-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/2026\/01\/15\/critical-utopia-capital-nature-desire-14th-jan-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical utopia: capital, nature, desire 14th Jan 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Really enjoying starting my new academic year as part of this workshop at LIAS in L\u00fcneburg today &#8211; fascinating papers rigorously interrogating utopia, desire, materialism and imagination in contexts of climate crisis and neo-liberalism. Thanks to Egidijus Mardosas and Jason Goldfarb for organising (and to Egidijus for sharing the quotes from Abensour below). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lisa Garforth<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"837\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_0145-1024x837.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-100\" style=\"width:257px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_0145-1024x837.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_0145-300x245.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_0145-768x628.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_0145-1536x1255.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_0145-2048x1674.png 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_0145-367x300.png 367w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"881\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_0146-1024x881.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-98\" style=\"width:256px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_0146-1024x881.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_0146-300x258.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_0146-768x661.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_0146-1536x1322.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_0146-2048x1763.png 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_0146-349x300.png 349w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"873\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_0144-1024x873.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-97\" style=\"width:258px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_0144-1024x873.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_0144-300x256.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_0144-768x654.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_0144-1536x1309.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_0144-2048x1745.png 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_0144-352x300.png 352w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"798\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_0147-798x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-99\" style=\"width:259px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_0147-798x1024.png 798w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_0147-234x300.png 234w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_0147-768x986.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_0147-1196x1536.png 1196w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2026\/01\/IMG_0147-1595x2048.png 1595w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 798px) 100vw, 798px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really enjoying starting my new academic year as part of this workshop at LIAS in L\u00fcneburg today &#8211; fascinating papers rigorously interrogating utopia, desire, materialism and imagination in contexts of climate crisis and neo-liberalism. Thanks to Egidijus Mardosas and Jason &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/2026\/01\/15\/critical-utopia-capital-nature-desire-14th-jan-2026\/\">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-96","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\/96","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=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}