From the enclosure of experience to the erotic post office: Benjamin and Marcuse in concrete utopian paths beyond dystopia

Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation › Research

Description

I delivered a presentation in which I posited the idea of 'the public' as a utopian-pedagogical resource through which routine experience of ongoing social interconnectedness could contribute to delivering a just exit from a be-plagued neoliberalism. I applied these notions to the UK's Post Office, imagining what role an 'Erotic' (In Marcuse's post-Freudian sense) Post Office might play in transforming society.
Period31 Jan 2021
Event titleLiving in the End Times: Utopian and Dystopian Representations of
Pandemics in Fiction, Film and Culture: : Utopian and Dystopian Representations of Pandemics in Fiction, Film and Culture
Event typeConference
LocationCappadocia, TurkeyShow on map

Keywords

  • Utopia
  • Benjamin
  • Marcuse
  • Eros & Civilisation
  • Post Office
  • Public Services
  • Erfahrung