Post-Apocalyptic Cultures

New Political Imaginaries After the Collapse of Modernity

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Av Julia Urabayen, Jorge León Casero, Jorge Leon Casero

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This book advocates for the necessity of recovering the value of utopias as political projects that open new channels of action.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-03-21
Mått148 x 210 x 17 mm
Vikt406 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePalgrave Studies in Utopianism
Antal sidor288
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783031505126

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Julia Urabayen is Professor at the University of Navarra, Spain. In recent years, she has mainly studied public-urban space, forms of political violence, citizenship and the city, as well as governance and feminist utopias. She has published several books, book chapters and articles.Jorge León Casero is Professor at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. He has been the head researcher of the Social Risk Map project. He is the author of several books, book chapters and articles.

PART I - TECHNOPOLITICS.- Comeback to the Forbidden Planet: Dystopia in the Era of Collapse; Andoni Alonso Puello and Iñaki Arzóz.- Unidentified Technical Objects: Not Working, Breaking Laws, Doing Nothing; Eugene Kuchinov and Ivan Spitsyn.- Techno-Naturans Without Terraforming: From the Geoengineering of Mastery to Sympoietic Agency; Jorge León Casero.- Cyberculture, (Dys)Topias and Transformation; Rocío Rueda.- Smart Utopian Cities: Hangovers and Aftermaths; José María Castejón and Enrique Cano.- PART II - POSTHUMANIST BIOPOLITICS.- Post-Apocalyptic Critical Dystopias; Corin Braga.- In the World of Postselves and Posthumans: The Biopolitical Utopia of Postmortalism; Anna Bugajska.- From Utopia to Biopolitical Dystopia: The Creation of New Human Beings in Some Utopias of the Nineteenth-Century; Julia Urabayen.- Between Utopia and Reality (Modern Transhumanism Theories and Posthumanism); Ayazhan Sagikyzy and Anara Asanovna Uyzbayeva.- PART III - NON-WESTERN POLITICS.- Chinese Utopia and Dystopia from Non-Western Point of View; Dmitry Martynov.- Challenging Dystopia with Laughter: Yan Lianke’s Inversion of Political Slogans in Serve the People! (2005); Angela Yiu.- From the Virtuous City to Yūtubiya: A Condensed Account of Utopia Writings in Arabic; Yehoshua Frenkel.- Latin American Modernity and the Historical Role of the Integration Utopia; Juan Pro.- PART IV - MASS MEDIA AND AESTHETIC POLITICS.- The Creative Utopias of Abolitionist Organizing; Rebecca Zorach.- Surveillance and Utopia; Daniel Panka.- Utopias and Dystopias Through Images: The View of the Future in Films and Television Series; Leticia Florez Farfán and Gerardo De la Fuente Lora.- The Way Out is Through: Co-Produced Critical Utopias as Antidotes to Anthropocene Melancholia; Paul Raven.- Phototopia: (Re)Geneating Life from Photographs; Ana Peraica.