Imagining our futures in different keys.

Abstract

It almost appears paradoxical, but in these uncertain and anxiety‐ridden SARS‐CoV‐2 times concerns with the social have returned with a vengeance By social here I do not only mean the manifold forms of kindness, solidarity and community that have emerged on so many levels and scales, but also calls for a new kind of socialism, for alternative forms of economic distribution, production and justice To be fair, such calls did exist in queer, feminist and radical left communities before COVID‐19 made it palpably clear that economic practices exclusively steeped in practices of private entrepreneurship, fiscal austerity and supposedly self‐regulatory markets do not work in the interest of all Yet the ways in which in many parts of the world not only significant emergency response benefit packages are being offered to many, but some economic sectors have even come to a halt, have shown that an economic system many thought it was impossible to slow down In other words, the once unimaginable has become possible