‘The Ends of Utopian Thinking in Critical Theory’ by Nina Rismal reviewed by Reece Rogers (opens in new tab)

In the final decade of the previous century, two basic and related assumptions came to form a widespread political and, perhaps to a lesser extent, public consensus in the so-called ‘Global North.’ First, it was claimed that there was only one single, valid, way of governing contemporary society – the basic elements of which included both the adoption of free market principles for economics and democratic principles for politics: a dual operation which merely camouflaged a broader attempt to ...