Modernity and its Futures Past

The work reimagines emancipatory possibilities in the face of reified capitalist modernity. The enlightenment resulted in a disenchanted world, stripped of anthropomorphised meaning and purpose. This world, in its capitalistic figuration, alienates us from others, and from nature. To rearticulate emancipatory possibilities requires a non-alienated relation to society and nature. Yet, modernist disenchantment cannot be undone by returning to pre-modern enchantment. Rather, such rearticulation calls for the recovery of unalienated life from within non-reified modernity, by renewing its universalist dimension.