Radicalism’s Future: A History

Sunday, January 4, 2015: 11:50 AM
Murray Hill Suite B (New York Hilton)
Christopher Phelps, University of Nottingham
As a political project radicalism is posited on the postulation of alternative societies whose outlines are glimpsed from the horizon of the present. This talk charts the past and present of radical futurities, including socialism, Communism, and anarchism, culminating in the present tendency of catastrophe to eclipse utopia in radical imaginations of things to come.