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The utopian impulse

From Situations, Jan C. Rehmann (UTS): Towards a deconstruction of Postmodernist Neo-Nietzscheanism: Deleuze and Foucault; Stanley Aronowitz reviews the work of Henri Lefebre; and a review of Fredric Jameson’s The Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia. James Bowman (EPPC): Heroism, Modernism, and the Utopian Impulse. From Cultural Logic, Christopher Kendrick (Loyola): Tendencies of Utopia: Reflections on Recent Work in the Modern Utopian Tradition; Michael Szekely (Temple): Rethinking Benjamin: The Function of the Utopian Ideal; and Maryam El-Shall on Salafi Utopia: The Making of the Islamic State.