[dead_battery]

I miss history, just as I miss my own history, and my childhood visions of the future. In my grander moments I feel like an embodiment of Slavoj Žižek's Living in the End Times, meandering mournfully around Spotify and fretting about the left's intellectual bankruptcy.

As modernist housing projects fall into ruin, it is hard to recall the sincerity of Tomorrow's World or SF that is not ironically space age or steampunk. It is barely possible to articulate a utopia, even (or especially) if you are on the left.

There is no longer … a progressive temporal dimension...