Rafael Renato dos Santos

We live in times of systematic crises, linked to neoliberal rationality that extends beyond the limits of economic policies, reaching everyday life, guiding relationships and shaping contemporary subjectivity itself, as well as current social dilemmas. The word utopia appears on the historical horizon as part of the human condition and as a way of imagining other places that can be inhabited as viable alternatives to the limits of reality. In this sense, we go through the writings of some intellectuals and activists who expressed the conditions for utopia to be realized in the field of practice. These conceptions find resonances in the ideals of a democracy to come and in Pindorama's matriarchy, as proposed by Angela Davis and Oswald de Andrade respectively. We questioned the conditions for this utopia to be realized and concluded that, before guaranteeing the effectiveness of the alternatives proposed and understood as utopias, it is necessary to reinforce the topicality and epistemological and political importance of the concept of utopia, in academia, in militancy and in social life.

We live in times of systematic crises, linked to neoliberal rationality that extends beyond the limits of economic policies, reaching everyday life, guiding relationships and shaping contemporary subjectivity itself, as well as current social dilemmas. The word utopia appears on the historical horizon as part of the human condition and as a way of imagining other places that can be inhabited as viable alternatives to the limits of reality. In this sense, we go through the writings of some intellectuals and activists who expressed the conditions for utopia to be realized in the field of practice. These conceptions find resonances in the ideals of a democracy to come and in Pindorama's matriarchy, as proposed by Angela Davis and Oswald de Andrade respectively. We questioned the conditions for this utopia to be realized and concluded that, before guaranteeing the effectiveness of the alternatives proposed and understood as utopias, it is necessary to reinforce the topicality and epistemological and political importance of the concept of utopia, in academia, in militancy and in social life.