Utopia beyond capitalism in contemporary literature : a commons poetics /
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 organization based on collectivity, communalism and sharing, as a type...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
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 organization 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: | xii, 191 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [176]-188) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1350288551 9781350288553 |