Speaker

Amy Cheng

Host

Lu Jie

Introduction

Will the future ever arrive? Or is it in fact already here, but unevenly distributed? The future is not a fantasy of linear time travel, but an infinite unfolding of the pressing problems of the present. This lecture will begin by assessing the phenomenon of retro futurism, then move onto the 20th century concept of the multiverse, before turning to the fantasies of utopia and heterotopia, as well as the dialectics of aspiration and idealism in late capitalism.