Utopia/dystopia : conditions of historical possibility /
Michael D. Gordin, Helen Tilley, and Gyan Prakash
- Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2010
- vi, 293 p. ; 24 cm
"Publication in partnership with the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University"--Preliminary page.
Inclou referències bibliogràfiques i índex pàg. [281]-293.
Part 1: Anima. Utopia as method, or the uses of the future / Fredric Jameson ; Literacy and futurity: millennial dreaming on the nineteenth- century southern African frontier / Jennifer Wenzel ; Bourgeois categories made global: the utopian and actual lives of historical documents in India / Dipesh Chakrabarty ; The utopia of working phones: Rhodesian independence and the place of race in decolonization / Luise White ; Hydrocarbon utopia / Timothy Mitchell --
Part 2: Artifice. Techno-utopian dreams, techno-political realities: the education of desire for the peaceful atom / John Krige ; On cosmopolitanism, the avant- garde, and a lost innocence of central Europe / Marci Shore ; The breath of the possible: everyday utopianism and the street in modernist urbanism / David Pinder ; Stalinist confessions in an age of terror: Messianic times at the Leningrad communist universities / Igal Halfin ; The heterotopias of Dalit politics: becoming- subject and the consumption utopia / Aditya Nigam.
The concepts of utopia and dystopia have received much historical attention. Utopias have traditionally signified the ideal future: large-scale social, political, ethical, and religious spaces that have yet to be realized. This title offers a fresh approach to these ideas.
9780691146980
Utopies--Història
Distopies--Història
UTOPÍAS
DISTOPíAS
HISTORIA
FILOSOFÍA
304.9
"Publication in partnership with the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University"--Preliminary page.
Inclou referències bibliogràfiques i índex pàg. [281]-293.
Part 1: Anima. Utopia as method, or the uses of the future / Fredric Jameson ; Literacy and futurity: millennial dreaming on the nineteenth- century southern African frontier / Jennifer Wenzel ; Bourgeois categories made global: the utopian and actual lives of historical documents in India / Dipesh Chakrabarty ; The utopia of working phones: Rhodesian independence and the place of race in decolonization / Luise White ; Hydrocarbon utopia / Timothy Mitchell --
Part 2: Artifice. Techno-utopian dreams, techno-political realities: the education of desire for the peaceful atom / John Krige ; On cosmopolitanism, the avant- garde, and a lost innocence of central Europe / Marci Shore ; The breath of the possible: everyday utopianism and the street in modernist urbanism / David Pinder ; Stalinist confessions in an age of terror: Messianic times at the Leningrad communist universities / Igal Halfin ; The heterotopias of Dalit politics: becoming- subject and the consumption utopia / Aditya Nigam.
The concepts of utopia and dystopia have received much historical attention. Utopias have traditionally signified the ideal future: large-scale social, political, ethical, and religious spaces that have yet to be realized. This title offers a fresh approach to these ideas.
9780691146980
Utopies--Història
Distopies--Història
UTOPÍAS
DISTOPíAS
HISTORIA
FILOSOFÍA
304.9