- Not only have we lost utopia as an ideal end, but historical time itself in its continuity and its unfolding. Something like a short-circuit has occurred, a supercooling of the temporal dimension - effects preceding causes, ends preceding origins - and these have led to this paradox of achieved utopia. Now, achieved utopia puts an end to the utopian dimension. It creates an impossible situation, in the sense that it exhausts the possibilities. From this point on, the problem in hand is not one of changing how life is lived, which was the maximal utopia, but one of survival, which is a kind of minimal utopia. -

The End of the Millennium or the Countdown (in Economy and Society 26/4 - novembre 1997) pp. 447-455