Concrete Utopianism : : The Politics of Temporality and Solidarity / / Gary Wilder.
Never before has it been more important for Left thinking to champion expansive visions for societal transformation. Yet influential currents of critical theory have lost sight of this political imperative. Provincial notions of places, periods, and subjects obstruct our capacity to invent new align...
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| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: The Opposite of Pessimism Is Not Optimism
- I. Refiguring Politics
- 1. The Possible- Impossible: Dialectical Optics and Uncanny Refractions (Here, Now, Us)
- 2. Concrete Utopianism and Critical Internationalism: Refusing Left Realism
- 3. Practicing Translation: Beyond Left Culturalism
- 4. Of Pessimism and Presentism: Against Left Melancholy
- Intermezzo
- 5. Solidarity
- 6. Anticipation
- II. Unthinking History
- 7. Time as a Real Abstraction: Clock- Time, Nonsynchronism, Untimeliness
- 8. Dialectic of Past and Future
- 9. It’s Still Happening Again: Ontology, Hauntology, and Ellison’s Dialectics of Invisibility
- 10. A Prophetic Vision of the Past: Glissant’s Poetics of Nonhistory
- III. Anticipating Futures
- 11. The World We Wish to See
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index