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This course will center theories of utopia anchored in a long reading of George Eliot’s Middlemarch. Famously a “no place,” utopian thinking crosses literature, design and architecture, politic theory, film and art. We will use Middlemarch—in which utopian ideas arrive via glimmers and potentialities in the text—to think carefully about utopia’s relationship to realism. We will read criticism and theory by Marx, Adorno and Ernst Bloch, Anahid Nersessian, Gary Wilder, José Esteban Muñoz to additionally consider the place of utopian thought for the present.