Utopia beyond capitalism in contemporary literature : a commons poetics / Raphael Kabo.
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 ty...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Bloomsbury Academic,
2023.
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| Series: | New horizons in contemporary writing.
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| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 pages : illustrations (black and white)). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781350288560 135028856X |