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Utopia, Dystopia and the Post-Capitalist State

By UCL Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS)

Overview

This workshop looks to the future, assembling an interdisciplinary group of scholars to ask what might come after the capitalist state.

This Centre for Capitalism Studies workshop builds on last year’s series, The Capitalist State in the 2020s, which examined the return of industrial strategy to the Global North, the militarisation of the capitalist state, and the endless expansion of borders and other carceral infrastructures.

Our new workshop looks to the future, assembling an interdisciplinary group of scholars to ask what might come after the capitalist state. We will hear from four speakers:

Annalena Oppel - Re-imagining Success: What types of post-capitalists states emerge?
Kae Rose - After Fossil Capitalism? Solarpunk’s Conflicted Utopianism
Matteo Menopache - Gaming the System: A board game to imagine post-capitalist futures
Pollyanna Wardrop - Mapping narratives of justice in the development finance ecosystem

The UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies is a world-leading centre for critical interdisciplinary research into the past, present, and future of capitalism. It brings together UCL faculty and students studying how markets, finance and economic institutions shape our everyday life, structure societies’ capacity to change, and are contested and remade across time and space.

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