Decadentia

There are two false meanings of Utopia. One is this old notion of an ideal society that we know will never be realized. The other is the capitalist utopia in the sense of new and new perverse desires that you are not only allowed but even solicited to realize. The true utopia is when the situation is so without issue, without a way to resolve it within the coordinates of the possible that out of the pure urge of survival you have to invent a new space. Utopia is not a kind of free imagination, Utopia is a matter of innermost urgency. You are forced to imagine it as the only way out, and this is what we need today.

—Slavoj Zizek - Lecture at the University of Buenos Aires (via bigroundtable)