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Utopia in the Age of Survival - Between Myth and Politics (Paperback)
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Utopia in the Age of Survival - Between Myth and Politics (Paperback)
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A pathbreaking exploration of the fate of utopia in our troubled
times, this book shows how the historically intertwined endeavors
of utopia and critique might be leveraged in response to humanity's
looming existential challenges. Utopia in the Age of Survival makes
the case that critical social theory needs to reinstate utopia as a
speculative myth. At the same time the left must reassume utopia as
an action-guiding hypothesis—that is, as something still
possible. S. D. Chrostowska looks to the vibrant, visionary
mid-century resurgence of embodied utopian longings and projections
in Surrealism, the Situationist International, and critical
theorists writing in their wake, reconstructing utopia's link to
survival through to the earliest, most radical phase of the French
environmental movement. Survival emerges as the organizing concept
for a variety of democratic political forms that center the
corporeality of desire in social movements contesting the expanding
management of life by state institutions across the globe. Vigilant
and timely, balancing fine-tuned analysis with broad historical
overview to map the utopian impulse across contemporary cultural
and political life, Chrostowska issues an urgent report on the
vitality of utopia.
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