Raphael Kabo

Utopia Beyond Capitalism in Contemporary Literature (eBook, PDF)

A Commons Poetics

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Featuring readings of contemporary utopian poetry and fiction from authors such as Juliana Spahr, Mohsin Hamid, Bong Joon-ho, Kim Stanley Robinson, Lidia Yukavitch, and Cory Doctorow, this book investigates the commons - a form of organisation based on collectivity, communalism and sharing - as a type of transition between capitalist precarity and crisis and anti-capitalist futures. Each of the texts under examination was written in opposition to a particular crisis of the capitalist present - inequality, political representation, mobility, and climate change - and develops a particular mode of utopian 'commoning'.

Through its examination of these writers, crises and texts, this book reaffirms the use of utopianism as a tool for generating and representing alternative futures for a world in the midst of ongoing planetary crisis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350288560
• Artikelnr.: 67576100

Autorenporträt

Dr Raphael Kabo is an independent researcher investigating cultural production in, and adjacent to, contemporary global activist movements. He is a co-founder of the anarchist close reading collective Beyond Gender and the research network Utopian Acts.