Phillip Wegner on Repetition, Love and Utopia

<p id="gmail-E70"><span id="gmail-E71" class= "gmail-qowt-font4-TimesNewRoman">Phillip E. Wegner</span> <span id= "gmail-E72" class="gmail-qowt-font4-TimesNewRoman">is the</span> <span id="gmail-E73" class= "gmail-qowt-font4-TimesNewRoman">Marston-</span><span id= "gmail-E75" class="gmail-qowt-font4-TimesNewRoman">Milbauer</span> <span id="gmail-E77" class="gmail-qowt-font4-TimesNewRoman">Eminent Scholar and Professor of English at the University of Florida and the director of the Working Group for the Study of Critical Theory. He is the author of</span> <span id="gmail-E78" class= "gmail-qowt-font4-TimesNewRoman">numerous essays and</span> <span id="gmail-E79" class="gmail-qowt-font4-TimesNewRoman">five books, </span><em><span id="gmail-E80" class= "gmail-qowt-font4-TimesNewRoman">Imaginary Communities: Utopia, the Nation, and the Spatial Histories of Modernity</span></em> <span id="gmail-E81" class= "gmail-qowt-font4-TimesNewRoman">(California, 2002); </span><span id="gmail-E82" class= "gmail-qowt-font4-TimesNewRoman"><em>Life Between Two Deaths: U.S. Culture,</em> 1989-2001</span><span id="gmail-E83" class= "gmail-qowt-font4-TimesNewRoman"> (Duke, 2009); </span><em><span id="gmail-E84" class= "gmail-qowt-font4-TimesNewRoman">Periodizing Jameson: Dialectics, the University, and the Desire for Narrative</span></em><span id= "gmail-E85" class= "gmail-qowt-font4-TimesNewRoman"> (Northwestern, 2014); and </span><em><span id="gmail-E86" class= "gmail-qowt-font4-TimesNewRoman">Shockwaves of Possibility: Essays on Science Fiction, Globalization, and Utopia</span></em><span id= "gmail-E87" class="gmail-qowt-font4-TimesNewRoman"> (Peter Lang, 2014); and</span> <em><span id="gmail-E88" class= "gmail-qowt-font4-TimesNewRoman">Invoking Hope: Theory and Utopia in Dark Times</span></em> <span id="gmail-E89" class= "gmail-qowt-font4-TimesNewRoman">(Minnesota, 2020); as well as the editor of a new edition of Robert C. Elliott’s</span> <em><span id= "gmail-E90" class="gmail-qowt-font4-TimesNewRoman">The Shape of Utopia: Studies