Join us for a live streamed session from the Socialism 2023 conference, in Chicago.
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Why are there utopias and dystopias but topia isn’t even a word? How should we envision a future socialism that isn't a dream or a nightmare but a reality? And what does any of this have to do with our organizing work today?
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Speakers
Astra Taylor is a writer, filmmaker, and co-founder of the Debt Collective.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of California Los Angeles. He has published in academic journals ranging from Public Affairs Quarterly, One Earth, Philosophical Papers, and the American Philosophical Association newsletter Philosophy and the Black Experience.
Táíwò’s theoretical work draws liberally from the Black radical tradition, anti-colonial thought, German transcendental philosophy, contemporary philosophy of language, contemporary social science, and histories of activism and activist thinkers.
His public philosophy, including articles exploring intersections of climate justice and colonialism, has been featured in The New Yorker, The Nation, Boston Review, Dissent, The Appeal, Slate, Al Jazeera, The New Republic, Aeon, and Foreign Policy. He is the author of the books Reconsidering Reparations, published by Oxford University Press, and Elite Capture, published by Haymarket Books.
