We live in the era of the corporate-imperial university. The notion of "the corporate university" points to the academy as a marketized sphere in which the costs of education are shifted from the state onto students. A key element of the critiques of both the corporate and the imperial university is the erosion of academic freedom and the disciplining of dissent. The scope for resistance is becoming narrower and narrower. The question raised in this article is a simple one: Is resistance possible within the corporate-imperial university? How, where and by whom can it be challenged? The author approaches these questions as a functionary within a U.K. university and also as a political utopian, as some-one who has called repeatedly for renewed utopian thinking and practice both in general and within the sphere of education more specifically (see Webb 2009, 2013, 2017). What can utopists do to counter and resist the trajectory of the corporate-imperial university? To put a more positive gloss on the question: to what extent can the university serve as a site of utopian possibility? What utopian potential inheres within the contemporary corporate-imperial university?