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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century southern African frontier / Jennifer Wenzel ; Bourgeois categories made global: the utopian and actual lives of historical documents in India / Dipesh Chakrabarty ; The utopia of working phones: Rhodesian independence and the place of race in decolonization / Luise White ; Hydrocarbon utopia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.