Across the world, confidence in liberal democratic futures has fractured. Yet the vacuum is not empty: nationalist retrotopias, civilizational projects, and techno-futures all compete to fill the space that a hollowed-out proceduralism no longer occupies. What does the crisis of political imagination actually consist of — and is it a Western condition, or a global one? Nils Gilman and Ivan Krastev are among the most incisive thinkers of democratic exhaustion and planetary futures. Together, in conversation with Marlene Laruelle, they ask what it would mean to imagine otherwise, not by recovering a liberal confidence that may be gone for good, but by taking seriously the political horizons that are forming beyond it.

Opening Remarks
Giovanni Orsina Head of the Department of Political Science, Luiss

Roundtable Discussants
Nils Gilman Senior Advisor to the Berggruen Press and Deputy Editor of Noema Magazine
Ivan Krastev Albert Hirschman Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, IWM Vienna
Marlene Laruelle Professor of History, Luiss

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