Luoghi e non-luoghi della “capacità all’utopia” contemporanea. Tra accelerazione sociale, decelerazione e urgenza di futuro.

Many of the most pressing today’s issues are closely linked to the matter of future. Even if we live in a high innovative society where the technological progress is growing constantly, our ability to imagine and foreshadow the future seems to gradually contract, or at least results in a mere catastrophic dystopia. In this context, the paper suggests a few points for reflection on the status of contemporary ‘utopian capacity’, especially with regards to the influence of that social-theoretical thesis named accelerationism. Drawing inspirations from Jean Baudrillard, Byung-Chul Han, Reinhart Koselleck and above all Hartmut Rosa, I will try to point out some significant aspects from both a macro-social systemic and an individual point of view: throughout the paper, it would emerge a critical and progressive exhaustion of “political steering energies” and, subjectively, a tedious difficulty to pursuit a real and stable ‘life plan’. In conclusion, then, reference will be made to some philosophical and sociological perspectives that emphasize the role of ‘immanent’, or minimal, utopianism than programmatic and linear one.