For the fifth webinar of the At the End of the World research program, the researchers Mia-Marie Hammarlin and Torbjörn Gustafsson Chorell will host invited guest S. D. Chrostowska for a conversation about her book Utopia in the Age of Survival: Between Myth and Politics. The book makes the case that critical social theory needs to reinstate utopia as a speculative myth. At the same time the left must reassume utopia as an action-guiding hypothesis—that is, as something still possible.

S.D. Chrostowska is Professor of Humanities and Social & Political Thought at York University. She is the author of Literature on Trial: The Emergence of Critical Discourse in Germany, Poland, and Russia, 1700-1800 (2012), among other titles.