Utopia - Dystopia Conditions of Historical Possibility

Name: Utopia - Dystopia Conditions of Historical Possibility
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ISBN: 9780691146980

ISBN-10: 0691146985

ISBN-13: 9780691146980

Edition: 2010

Authors: Michael D. Gordin, Gyan Prakash, Helen Tilley

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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/Dystopiaoffers a fresh approach to these ideas. Rather than locate utopias in grandiose programs of future totality, the book treats these concepts as historically grounded categories and examines how individuals and groups throughout time have interpreted utopian visions in their daily present, with an eye toward the future. From colonial and postcolonial Africa to pre-Marxist and Stalinist Eastern Europe, from the social life of fossil fuels to dreams of nuclear…

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List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 9/24/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Introduction: Utopia and Dystopia beyond Space and Time







Utopia as Method, or the Uses of the Future




Literacy and Futurity: Millennial Dreaming on the Nineteenth-Century Southern African Frontier




Bourgeois Categories Made Global: The Utopian and Actual Lives of Historical Documents in India




The Utopia of Working Phones: Rhodesian independence and the Place of Race in Decolonization




Hydrocarbon Utopia








Techno-Utopian Dreams, Techno-Political Realities: The Education of Desire for the Peaceful Atom




On Cosmopolitanism, the Avant-Garde, and a Lost Innocence of Central Europe




The Breath of the Possible: Everyday Utopianism and the Street in Modernist Urbanism




Stalinist Confessions in an Age of Terror: Messianic Times at the Leningrad Communist Universities




The Heterotopias of Dalit Politics: Becoming-Subject and the Consumption Utopia



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