David M. Bell

Rethinking Utopia (eBook, ePUB)

Place, Power, Affect

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Returning to the three constituent parts of the word: 'good' (eu), 'place' (topos) and 'no' (ou); Bell reflects how these words might be thought 'nomadically' - via a constellation of theory that asserts the importance of affective relations and posits difference as ontologically prior to identity. The 'good' draws on Deleuze and Spinoza's affective ethical thought; 'place' from contemporary political geography; and the 'no' theorized via a reading of Ahmed's critique of happiness and Foucault's work on power. Among the first to offer an extended reading of utopia through the lens of affect, whilst maintaining a critical stance vis a vis the recent 'affective turn' in the social sciences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317486701
• Artikelnr.: 47513615

Autorenporträt

David M. Bell is a Research Associate at Newcastle University, where he works on the Imaginaries of the Future network.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: Rethinking the Present; or, Our Post-Utopian, Most-Utopian,
Anti-Utopian Dystopia
Chapter Two: Rethinking Contemporary Utopianism
Chapter Three: Rethinking Utopian Studies
Chapter Four: Rethinking the Good Place
Chapter Five: Rethinking the No-Good Place
(An Ambiguous) Conclusion
Bibliography
Index