Utopia/Dystopia : : Conditions of Historical Possibility / / ed. by Gyan Prakash, Michael D. Gordin, Helen Tilley.
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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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010] ©2011 |
Year of Publication: | 2010 |
Edition: | Core Textbook |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. Utopia and Dystopia beyond Space and Time
- PART ONE. ANIMA
- 1. Utopia as Method, or the Uses of the Future
- 2. Literacy and Futurity: Millennial Dreaming on the Nineteenth- Century Southern African Frontier
- 3. Bourgeois Categories Made Global: The Utopian and Actual Lives of Historical Documents in India
- 4. The Utopia of Working Phones: Rhodesian Independence and the Place of Race in Decolonization
- 5. Hydrocarbon Utopia
- PART TWO. ARTIFICE
- 6. Techno- Utopian Dreams, Techno- Political Realities: The Education of Desire for the Peaceful Atom
- 7. On Cosmopolitanism, the Avant- Garde, and a Lost Innocence of Central Europe
- 8. The Breath of the Possible: Everyday Utopianism and the Street in Modernist Urbanism
- 9. Stalinist Confessions in an Age of Terror: Messianic Times at the Leningrad Communist Universities
- 10. The Heterotopias of Dalit Politics: Becoming- Subject and the Consumption Utopia Contributors
- Contributors
- Index