This issue of The First Condition, October 2006, is a response to the invitation of Paul O’Neill to participate in his project, Our Day Will Come. Paul’s project is a response to the invitation of temporarycontemporay to participate in their show Nekromantic, at the Zoo. Steve Edward’s essay is an expanded version of the one published in the catalogue to William Morris curated by David Mabb, The Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester, Manchester, 2004. It is reproduced here with the kind permission of Steve Edwards, David Mabb and the Whitworth Art Gallery. Contents The Colonisation of Utopia by Steve Edwards Response (an exchange between Dave Beech and Mark Hutchinson)