S.D. Chrostowska is professor of humanities at York University. Her books include Utopia in the Age of Survival and The Eyelid.
Consider embracing utopia at once as indeterminate speculation about a qualitatively better future and as a hypothesis, by assuming it to be possible.
Back to normal? So soon?
Why do dreams, aside from those that prove uncannily prophetic, not befit our biography?
On the surface, the meaning of cosmopolitanism has not much changed, which is to say that it remains amphibolous and reversible.
The lack of cultural capital spurs a form of social begging intended to expand and upgrade the supplicant’s social network.
The return to normalcy will be long, and we might even change our mind along the way.