Utopia/Dystopia : Conditions of Historical Possibility / edited by Michael D. Gordin, Helen Tilley, Gyan Prakash.
The concepts of utopia and dystopia have received much historical attention. Utopias have traditionally signified the ideal future: large-scale social, political, ethical, and religious spaces that have yet to be realized. Utopia/Dystopia offers a fresh approach to these ideas. Rather than locate ut...
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Princeton, N.J. :
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[2010]
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. Utopia and Dystopia beyond Space and Time / Gordin, Michael D. ; Tilley, Helen ; Prakash, Gyan
- 1. Utopia as Method, or the Uses of the Future / Jameson, Fredric
- 2. Literacy and Futurity: Millennial Dreaming on the Nineteenth- Century Southern African Frontier / Wenzel, Jennifer
- 3. Bourgeois Categories Made Global: The Utopian and Actual Lives of Historical Documents in India / Chakrabarty, Dipesh
- 4. The Utopia of Working Phones: Rhodesian Independence and the Place of Race in Decolonization / White, Luise
- 5. Hydrocarbon Utopia / Mitchell, Timothy
- 6. Techno- Utopian Dreams, Techno- Political Realities: The Education of Desire for the Peaceful Atom / Krige, John
- 7. On Cosmopolitanism, the Avant- Garde, and a Lost Innocence of Central Europe / Shore, Marci
- 8. The Breath of the Possible: Everyday Utopianism and the Street in Modernist Urbanism / Pinder, David
- 9. Stalinist Confessions in an Age of Terror: Messianic Times at the Leningrad Communist Universities / Halfin, Igal
- 10. The Heterotopias of Dalit Politics: Becoming- Subject and the Consumption Utopia Contributors / Nigam, Aditya
- Contributors
- Index.