#educated hope

[embodiedfutures]

practicing-love-black-feminism-love-politics-and-post-intersectionality-.pdf | Are.na

practicing-love-black-feminism-love-politics-and-post-intersectionality-.pdf | Are.na

this was such an interesting critique of intersectionality! so cool. i love to have my views challenged and expanded!

not in opposition, but frictional.

-- reaux (she/they)

[shrinkrants]

The concept of docta spes (educated hope) is the intellectual and material force that potentially produces concrete utopian thought. We need hope to counter a climate of hopelessness that immobilizes us both on the level of thought and transformative behaviors. None of this is to say that hope is easy to find or never misleading or potentially appropriated by reactionary agents and movements. Hope is a risk. But if the point is to change the world we must risk hope.

Lisa Duggan and Jose´ Esteban Munoz, Hope and Hopelessness: a dialogue

[narrativetherapy-blog]

Practicing educated hope is the enactment of a critique function. It is not about announcing the way things ought to be, but, instead, imagining what things could be. It is thinking beyond the narrative of what stands for the world today by seeing it as not enough. Concrete Utopianism is rooted in a kind of objective possibility. This is the most generative moment in the utopian function. Concrete Utopia is Bloch’s reformulation of Marx’s notion of praxis, the unity of theory and practice. It is the goal of enacting a world, the actual creation of that goal and the actual movement towards that goal. The concept of docta spes (educated hope) is the intellectual and material force that potentially produces concrete utopian thought. We need hope to counter a climate of hopelessness that immobilizes us both on the level of thought and transformative behaviors. None of this is to say that hope is easy to find or never misleading or potentially appropriated by reactionary agents and movements. Hope is a risk. But if the point is to change the world we must risk hope.

     — “Hope and hopelessness: A dialogue” - Lisa Duggan and Jose Esteban Munoz

[narrativetherapy-blog]

"Hope is a risk. But if the point is to change the world we must risk hope."

Practicing educated hope is the enactment of a critique function. It is not about announcing the way things ought to be, but, instead, imagining what things could be. It is thinking beyond the narrative of what stands for the world today by seeing it as not enough. Concrete Utopianism is rooted in a kind of objective possibility. This is the most generative moment in the utopian function. Concrete Utopia is Bloch’s reformulation of Marx’s notion of praxis, the unity of theory and practice. It is the goal of enacting a world, the actual creation of that goal and the actual movement towards that goal. The concept of docta spes (educated hope) is the intellectual and material force that potentially produces concrete utopian thought. We need hope to counter a climate of hopelessness that immobilizes us both on the level of thought and transformative behaviors. None of this is to say that hope is easy to find or never misleading or potentially appropriated by reactionary agents and movements. Hope is a risk. But if the point is to change the world we must risk hope.

- Lisa Duggan and Jose´ Esteban Munoz, Hope and Hopelessness: a dialogue

[shrinkrants]

Practicing educated hope is the enactment of a critique function. It is not about announcing the way things ought to be, but, instead, imagining what things could be. It is thinking beyond the narrative of what stands for the world today by seeing it as not enough. Concrete Utopianism is rooted in a kind of objective possibility. This is the most generative moment in the utopian function. Concrete Utopia is Bloch’s reformulation of Marx’s notion of praxis, the unity of theory and practice. It is the goal of enacting a world, the actual creation of that goal and the actual movement towards that goal. The concept of docta spes (educated hope) is the intellectual and material force that potentially produces concrete utopian thought. We need hope to counter a climate of hopelessness that immobilizes us both on the level of thought and transformative behaviors. None of this is to say that hope is easy to find or never misleading or potentially appropriated by reactionary agents and movements. Hope is a risk. But if the point is to change the world we must risk hope.

“Hope and hopelessness: A dialogue” - Lisa Duggan and Jose Esteban Munoz

via elektrokardiogrammatology

[shrinkrants]

Practicing educated hope is the enactment of a critique function. It is not about announcing the way things ought to be, but, instead, imagining what things could be. It is thinking beyond the narrative of what stands for the world today by seeing it as not enough. Concrete Utopianism is rooted in a kind of objective possibility. This is the most generative moment in the utopian function. Concrete Utopia is Bloch’s reformulation of Marx’s notion of praxis, the unity of theory and practice. It is the goal of enacting a world, the actual creation of that goal and the actual movement towards that goal. The concept of docta spes (educated hope) is the intellectual and material force that potentially produces concrete utopian thought. We need hope to counter a climate of hopelessness that immobilizes us both on the level of thought and transformative behaviors. None of this is to say that hope is easy to find or never misleading or potentially appropriated by reactionary agents and movements. Hope is a risk. But if the point is to change the world we must risk hope.

-“Hope and hopelessness: A dialogue” - Lisa Duggan and Jose Esteban Munoz

via elektrokardiogrammatology