We Hear Only Ourselves. Utopia, Memory and Resistance

Abstract

With We Hear Only Ourselves. Utopia, Memory and Resistance, their first book, Bill Cashmore takes into account the tradition of utopian thought, moving forward from Jameson’s distinction between the utopian programme and the utopian impulse, and heading into an alternative proposal esteemed to be able to resolve some of the biggest aporias of contemporary utopianism. Taking care of Adorno’s negative dialectics as their thinking strategy and recalling categories such as memory and tradition of the oppressed, familiar to Benjamin, Cashmore proposes a certain utopian narrative that, while interacting with some fundamental basis of contemporary thought on blackness, revolves around the possibility of pointing to a place outside actuality, some kind of non-place, without giving up the resistance against the violences of the real.