On hope resistance

Abstract

In this paper, I analyse our concept of resistance. I tell the difference between hope resistance and resistance tout court - the first figures out as a more basic phenomenon than the other. I specify the concept of hope resistance drawing upon the ontological and epistemological artillery of Bloch’s principle of hope. Accordingly, hope resistance is illustrated and explained through the concepts of possible futures, utopian function, anticipation and novumthat nowadays are crucial to the new philosophical field of future studies. I bring examples of hope resistance drawing upon the history of feminism and the fictitious world of science fiction and crime series, particularly Black Mirror, Utopia, and Money Heist.