Visions of utopia - some hopeful, others fearful - have become
increasingly prevalent in recent times. This groundbreaking, timely
book examines expressions of the utopian imagination with a focus
on the pressing challenge of how to inhabit a climate-changed
world. Forms of social dreaming are tracked across two domains:
political theory and speculative fiction. The analysis aims to both
uncover the key utopian and dystopian tendencies in contemporary
debates around the Anthropocene; as well as to develop a political
theory of radical transformation that avoids not only debilitating
fatalism but also wishful thinking. This book juxtaposes
theoretical interventions, from Bruno Latour to the members of the
Dark Mountain collective, with fantasy and science fiction texts by
N. K. Jemisin, Kim Stanley Robinson and Margaret Atwood, debating
viable futures for a world that will look and feel very different
from the one we live in right now.
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