Does Utopia Still Exist? Media, politics and the hope of something else

Why, in so many of our fantasies, do we leave behind a ruined earth in search of new planets? Is it really easier to imagine the end of all life on earth than to imagine the end of capitalism? In this course we examine Utopia—its philosophical architecture and its media history—in an attempt to diagnose (and overcome?) our present inability to think ourselves into any world better than this one. This is a global course, in which we journey through theory, literature, cinema and art from all over the world.