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Abstract
Many of the most pressing today’s issues are closely linked to the matter of future. Even if we live in a high innovative society where the technological pro-gress is growing constantly, our ability to imagine and foreshadow the future seems to gradually contract, or at least results in a mere catastrophic dystopia. In this con-text, the paper suggests a few points for reflection on the status of contemporary ‘utopian capacity’, especially with regards to the influence of that social-theoretical thesis named accelerationism. Drawing inspirations from Jean Baudrillard, Byung-Chul Han, Reinhart Koselleck and above all Hartmut Rosa, I will try to point out some significant aspects from both a macro-social systemic and an individual point of view: throughout the paper, it would emerge a critical and progressive exhaustion of “political steering energies” and, subjectively, a tedious difficulty to pursuit a real and stable ‘life plan’. In conclusion, then, reference will be made to some philosophi-cal and sociological perspectives that emphasize the role of ‘immanent’, or minimal, utopianism than programmatic and linear one.