The Hopeful Reader returns after a little summer hiatus! In this episode, we reflect on the place of ‘hope’ in the current socio-political epoch; drawing upon John Holloway’s ‘Hope in Hopeless Times’, we explore how relational forms of rage-hope might mobilise queer revolutionary politics…Why do we call ourselves ‘hopeful’ readers in supposedly ‘hopeless times’? If that all sounds like a lot, you can also look forward to some hot takes on worm communes, the latest J Wils novel and a whole host of other antics…

References: 

Berlant, L. (2022) On the Inconvenience of Other People. Durham: Duke University Press. 

Holloway, J. (2022) Hope in Hopeless Times. London: Pluto Press. 

Pedwell, C. (2021) Revolutionary Routines: The habits of social transformation. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press. 

Ruti, M. (2017) The Ethics of Opting Out: Queer Theory’s Defiant Subjects. New York: Columbia University Press.

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