Table of Contents
Introduction: Educational ills and the (im)possibility of utopia
1. Exhausted philosophy and islands-to-come
2. Utopian spaces and the promise of education: a conceptual analysis
3. Against the humiliation of thought: The university as a space of dystopic destruction and utopian potential
4. Utopia and pessimism: ‘You should not forsake the ship in a storm because you cannot command the
winds’
5. School in the (im)possibility of future: Utopia and its territorialities
6. Minimal utopianism in the classroom
7. The curious promise of educationalising technological unemployment: What can places of learning really do about the future of work?
8. Nowhere II Erewhon
9. The power of social dreaming: Reappraising the lesson of East European dissidents
10. Utopianism, transindividuation, and foreign language education in the Japanese university