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[title alludes to Raymond Williams. ''Resources of Hope''].
Republished by Stanford University Press.
"One of the several strange and unanticipated results of this [cultural studies] movement has been the transformation of Gramsci's remark on 'pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will' into a virtual law of human nature...apowerful inhibitor to action was [/is] the inability to come up with an alternative to the Thatcherite doctrine that 'there is no alternative'... The inability to find an 'optimism of the intellect' with which to work through alternatives has now become one of the most serious barriers to progressive politics." (p.16). ▼
=== Optimism of the intellect ===
'''Chapter 1: The difference a generation makes'''
▲"One of the several strange and unanticipated results of this [cultural studies] movement has been the transformation of Gramsci's remark on 'pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will' into a virtual law of human nature...
=== The insurgent architect at work ===
'''Ch.12: "The insurgent architect at work"'''
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"But what kind of world are we embedded in? We know that it is a world full of contradictions, of multiple positionalities, of necessary flights of the imagination translated into diverse fields of action, of uneven geographical developments, and of highly contested meanings and aspirations. The sheer enormity of that world and its incredible complexity provide abundant opportunities for the exercise of critical judgement and of limited freedom of the individual and collective will. But the enormity of apparent choice and the divergent terrains upon which struggles can be conducted is perpetually in danger of generating a disempowering confusion (of the sort that globalization, for example, has strongly promoted). Furthermore, it appears impossible to avoid unintended consequences of our actions, however well thought out. How are we to cut through these confusions and build a different sense of possibilities while acknowledging the power of the constraints with which we are surrounded?"
=== The right to the production of space. ===
My own preferred short-list of universal rights worthy of attention runs as follows: [...]▼
▲"My own preferred short-list of universal rights worthy of attention runs as follows: [...]
9. The right to the production of space The ability of individuals and collectivities to 'vote with their feet' and perpetually seek the fulfillments of their needs and desires elsewhere is probably the most radical of all proposals. Yet without it there is nothing to stop the relative incarceration of captive populations within particular territories. If, for example, labor had the same right of mobility as capital, if political persecution could be resisted (as the. a~u~n.t and privileged have proven) by geographical movement, and If mdlVlduals and collectivities had the right to change their locations at will, then the kind of world we live in would change dramatically (this principle is stated in Article 14 ofthe UN Declaration). But the production of space means more than merely the ability to circulate within a pre-ordained spatially structured world. It also means the right to reconstruct. spatial relations (territorial forms, communicative capacities, and rules) m ways that turn space from an absolute framework of action into a more malleable relative and relational aspect of social life."▼
9. '''The right to the production of space'''
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'''Appendix: Edilia, or 'Make of it what you will'''' ▼
"It will doubtless surprise you to know that by 2020 the revolution was over. In just seven years society underwent such a radical restructuring that it became unrecognizable....
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