Dreamworld and Catastrophe The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West

Name: Dreamworld and Catastrophe The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and West
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ISBN: 9780262523318

ISBN-10: 0262523310

ISBN-13: 9780262523318

Edition: 2002 (Reprint)

Authors: Susan Buck-Morss

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Description:

This study develops the notion of dreamworld as both a poetic description of a collective mental state and an analytical concept. Stressing the similarites between East/West the book examines extremes of mass utopia, dreamworld and catastrophe.

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 2/22/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English



Preface



Dreamworlds of Democracy



The Political Frame



Mass Sovereignty and the Image of the Enemy



Hypertext



Dreamworlds of History



On Time



Revolutionary Time



Time Fragments



Dreamworlds of Mass Culture



Common Sense



The Ecological Circuit



Shock



The Nature of Machines



Culture for the Masses



The Masses



Aesthetics of the Surface



A Cosmopolitan Project



Dream and Awakening



King Kong and the Palace of the Soviets



Domestic Space



Awakening



Afterward



Lived Time/Historical Time



Losing the Enemy



One World



Knowledge Production in a Global Economy


Notes


Bibliography


Illustration Credits


Index