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Utopia Beyond Capitalism in Contemporary Literature

A Commons Poetics

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

AvRaphael Kabo,Bryan Cheyette

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-01-23
Mått154 x 232 x 12 mm
Vikt305 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Horizons in Contemporary Writing
Antal sidor204
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350288591

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PrefaceIntroductionChapter One. Redefining Utopia: Utopian critical theory and utopian spatialityChapter Two. Escaping the Present: Precarity and surplus in a time of crisisChapter Three. Commons Beyond Capitalism: That Winter the Wolf CameChapter Four. Utopias Beyond Borders: Exit WestChapter Five. Utopias Beyond Disaster: New York 2140Chapter Six. Utopias Beyond Death: The Book of Joan and WalkawayEpilogueBibliography