We are delighted to welcome Bill Cashmore to Housmans to celebrate the publication of her exciting new book ‘We Hear Only Ourselves’. As Étienne Balibar says, this book is a ‘beautiful breakthrough by enormously gifted young philosopher.’ We Hear Only Ourselves is a study of utopia and its contradictions. If a future beyond capitalism cannot be imagined, what is the place of utopia today? The answer, Cashmore argues, lies beyond either idle speculation or merely hopeful optimism. We Hear Only Ourselves seeks a concept of utopia which is strengthened, not undermined, by its contradictions. From the dialectics of the Frankfurt School to the energetics of resistance in the writings of the Black Panthers, this book draws on a wide range of thought to offer a new concept of utopia, one adequate for our present moment.

Bill will be in conversation with Matt Colquhoun, followed by an open discussion.

There are free tickets available. If you are unable to pay for a ticket please contact shop@housmans.com.

If you choose book + event entry, your copy of the book will be available to collect on the evening. If you would like to collect it earlier, or have it delivered, please contact us (postage is £2.95). Telephone 020 7837 4473 or email shop@housmans.com.