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Utopia Beyond Capitalism in Contemporary Literature: A Commons Poetics: New Horizons in Contemporary Writing

Autor Raphael Kabo
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 iul 2023
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350288553
ISBN-10: 1350288551
Pagini: 208
Ilustrații: 10 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria New Horizons in Contemporary Writing

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

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.

Notă biografică

Dr Raphael Kabo is an independent researcher investigating cultural production in, and adjacent to, contemporary global activist movements. He is a co-founder of the anarchist close reading collective 'Beyond Gender' and the research network 'Utopian Acts'.

Cuprins

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

Recenzii

Utopia Beyond Capitalism in Contemporary Literature makes a brilliant case for the importance of the utopian imagination in literature and social movements. In readings of contemporary authors like Kim Stanley Robinson, Juliana Spahr, and Mohsin Hamid, Raphael Kabo shows that the dream of a better society isn't a luxury but a necessity.