GGD Forum

This forum is a space for shared reflection around the key themes of the Georgetown Global Dialogues. Georgetown faculty and students interested in contributing should contact globaldialogues@georgetown.edu.

Conversations

Can We Resist the Appeal of Technological Utopias?

How Can We (Re)imagine Human Fraternity?

Where Is Moral Authority in Today’s World?

The Georgetown Global Dialogues: Our Path Forward
By Thomas Banchoff and Pankaj Mishra

Towards a Cosmopolitanism of Repair
By Ranjit Hoskote

The Specter of Plunder Neoliberalism
By Verónica Gago

May 11, 2025

Can We Resist the Appeal of Technological Utopias? Blog Post

The Promethean passions binding modern humanity—the desire for unbridled power and mastery of the natural world—are colliding with political and environmental constraints. As we enter the artificial intelligence era, is there actually a greater wisdom in spurning the lofty visions of technological utopias and acknowledging the tragic frailty and precarity of earthly existence?

Reflections

GGD Fellows

Frailty as an Antidote to Utopia

By: Mohsin Hamid

In Praise of Our Defeat

By: Ece Temelkuran

Techno-Capitalism and the Perfect Dictatorship

By: Kohei Saito

Scholars and Practitioners

TechNOtopia?

By: Randall J. Amster

Messy Utopias

By: Katherine Chandler and Rajesh Veeraraghavan

Students

Against the Infinite Drive: Petro-Futures, Machine Gods, and the Politics of Rest

By: Tuan Nguyen

From Petroleum to Processors: The Ecological Wisdom of Technological Humility

By: Amira Zhanat

In Praise of Limits

By: Jazmaine Simbulan

Finding Humanity Through Strife

By: Raha Murtuza

Machines Are Not Gods—And Neither Are We

By: Vilda Westh Blanc

The Cost of Progress

By: Grace Liu

Technological Humility in an Age of Ambition

By: Hassan Amin

May 7, 2025

How Can We (Re)imagine Human Fraternity? Blog Post

Our contemporary world is both highly integrated and deeply divided. Can we expand our moral imaginations beyond our communities and nations to the global level? What ethical and spiritual resources can we draw on to build human fraternity in a divided world?