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Utopia Beyond Capitalism in Contemporary Literature

Raphael Kabo
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anti-capitalist futures
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Bong Joon-ho
capitalism
Capitalist precarity
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climate change
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Cory Doctorow
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Fredric Jameson
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Juliana Spahr
Kim Stanley Robinson
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Lidia Yukavitch
Mark Fisher
mobility
Mohsin Hamid
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political representation
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Slavoj Zizek
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781350288591
  • Weight: 305g
  • Dimensions: 154 x 232mm
  • Publication Date: 23 Jan 2025
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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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.
About Raphael Kabo
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'.

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