Utopia Beyond Capitalism In Contemporary Literature
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Author | : Raphael Kabo |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2023-06-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 135028856X |
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Featuring readings of contemporary utopian poetry and fiction from authors such as Juliana Spahr, Mohsin Hamid, Bong Joon-ho, Kim Stanley Robinson, Lidia Yukavitch, and Cory Doctorow, this book investigates the commons - a form of organisation based on collectivity, communalism and sharing - as a type of transition between capitalist precarity and crisis and anti-capitalist futures. Each of the texts under examination was written in opposition to a particular crisis of the capitalist present - inequality, political representation, mobility, and climate change - and develops a particular mode of utopian 'commoning'. Through its examination of these writers, crises and texts, this book reaffirms the use of utopianism as a tool for generating and representing alternative futures for a world in the midst of ongoing planetary crisis.
Author | : Alexander Raphael Kabo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020 |
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Download Imagining the End of Capitalism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Ana Cecilia Dinerstein |
Publisher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2021-01-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1787691438 |
Download A World Beyond Work? Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book mounts a forceful critique of fashionable thinking on the possibility of a post-work, post-capitalist society achieved through automation, a basic income and the reduction of working hours to zero, suggesting this popular utopia is nothing of the sort.
Author | : Michael G. Kelly |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2023-08-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 303125855X |
Download Utopia, Equity and Ideology in Urban Texts Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Utopia, Equity and Ideology in Urban Texts: Fair and Unfair Cities explores the complex interrelations of three key critical topics across a diverse range of urban writing. Interrogating the links and tensions between aesthetic and political priorities in the representation and imagining of urban life, the volume engages with work from a wide variety of linguistic and cultural origins and across a range of textual practices having the urban phenomenon as a common framing concern. Individual contributions discussing genre and literary fiction, poetic writing, documentary and essayistic texts, planning manifestos and municipal communications materials serve to demonstrate that the nuanced treatments of urban experience and potential which may be gleaned from across this textual spectrum act as a pragmatic corrective to purely conceptual approaches. As such, the volume consolidates the emerging dialogue between the fields of utopian studies and literary urban studies, understanding these as complementary approaches to the reading of the city and its textual prolongations.
Author | : Zsolt Cziganyik |
Publisher | : Central European University Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2017-03-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9633862434 |
Download Utopian Horizons Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The 500th anniversary of Thomas More’s Utopia has directed attention toward the importance of utopianism. This book investigates the possibilities of cooperation between the humanities and the social sciences in the analysis of 20th century and contemporary utopian phenomena. The papers deal with major problems of interpreting utopias, the relationship of utopia and ideology, and the highly problematic issue as to whether utopia necessarily leads to dystopia. Besides reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of contemporary utopian investigations, the eleven essays effectively represent the constructive attitudes of utopian thought, a feature that not only defines late 20th- and 21st-century utopianism, but is one of the primary reasons behind the rising importance of the topic. The volume’s originality and value lies not only in the innovative theoretical approaches proposed, but also in the practical application of the concept of utopia to a variety of phenomena which have been neglected in the utopian studies paradigm, especially to the rarely discussed Central European texts and ideologies.
Author | : Benjamin Kunkel |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2014-03-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1781683271 |
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After the financial crash and the great recession, the media rediscovered Karl Marx, socialist theory, and the very idea that capitalism can be questioned. But in spite of the publicity, the main paths of contemporary critical thought have gone unexplored outside of the academy. Benjamin Kunkel’s Utopia or Bust leads readers – whether politically committed or simply curious – through the most important critical theory today. Written with the wit and verve of Kunkel’s best-selling novel, Indecision, this introduction to contemporary Leftist thinkers engages with the revolutionary philosophy of Slavoj Žižek, the economic analyses of David Graeber and David Harvey, and the cultural diagnoses of Fredric Jameson. Discussing the ongoing crisis of capitalism in light of ideas of full employment, debt forgiveness, and “fictitious capital,” Utopia or Bust is a tour through the world of Marxist thought and an examination of the basis of Western society today.
Author | : H G Wells |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2020-08-14 |
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ISBN | : |
Download A Modern Utopia Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
the Utopia of a modern dreamer must needs differ in one fundamental aspect from the Nowheres and Utopias men planned before Darwin quickened the thought of the world. Those were all perfect and static States, a balance of happiness won for ever against the forces of unrest and disorder that inhere in things. One beheld a healthy and simple generation enjoying the fruits of the earth in an atmosphere of virtue and happiness, to be followed by other virtuous, happy, and entirely similar generations, until the Gods grew weary. Change and development were dammed back by invincible dams for ever. But the Modern Utopia must be not static but kinetic, must shape not as a permanent state but as a hopeful stage, leading to a long ascent of stages. Nowadays we do not resist and overcome the great stream of things, but rather float upon it.
Author | : Juliana Spahr |
Publisher | : Commune Editions |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781934639177 |
Download That Winter the Wolf Came Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Renewed poetry of struggle at the intersection of ecological and economic catastrophe--feminist, ferocious, and finally celebratory.
Author | : Jean Pfaelzer |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Pre |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2010-11-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0822974428 |
Download The Utopian Novel in America, 1886–1896 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In the late 1800s, Americans flocked to cities, immigration, slums, and unemployment burgeoned, and America's role in foreign affairs grew. This period also spawned a number of fictional glimpses into the future. After the publication of Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward in 1888, there was an outpouring of utopian fantasy, many of which promoted socialism, while others presented refined versions of capitalism. Jean Pfaelzer's study traces the impact of the utopian novel and the narrative structures of these sentimental romances. She discusses progressive, pastoral, feminist, and apocalyptic utopias, as well as the genre's parodic counterpart, the dystopia.
Author | : Peter Frase |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2016-11-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1781688141 |
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An exploration of the utopias and dystopias that could develop from present society Peter Frase argues that increasing automation and a growing scarcity of resources, thanks to climate change, will bring it all tumbling down. In Four Futures, Frase imagines how this post-capitalist world might look, deploying the tools of both social science and speculative fiction to explore what communism, rentism and extermininsm might actually entail. Could the current rise of the real-life robocops usher in a world that resembles Ender's Game? And sure, communism will bring an end to material scarcities and inequalities of wealth—but there's no guarantee that social hierarchies, governed by an economy of "likes," wouldn't rise to take their place. A whirlwind tour through science fiction, social theory and the new technologies are already shaping our lives, Four Futures is a balance sheet of the socialisms we may reach if a resurgent Left is successful, and the barbarisms we may be consigned to if those movements fail.