Although normally associated with modernity or modernism, utopia
has made a comeback in the age of globalization. Just as the
discoveries of the New World and the social upheavals of early
modern Europe inspired Thomas More's Utopia and its many
descendants, the bewildering technological shifts and economic
uncertainties of the present era call for new approaches. The
explosion of utopian studies since the 1960s, particularly in the
work of such theorists as Herbert Marcuse and Fredric Jameson,
suggests that utopia may find its true vocation as both a critical
practice and anticipatory desire in this postmodern moment of
global capitalism. In Utopia in the Age of Globalization, Robert T.
Tally Jr. draws upon recent utopian theory to argue that utopia is
best understood today, not as an ideal society or a future state,
but as a mode of literary cartography. The utopian project is an
attempt to map the present world system in its totality.
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