Utopia/Dystopia : : Conditions of Historical Possibility /

Utopia/Dystopia : : Conditions of Historical Possibility / / ed. by Gyan Prakash, Michael D. Gordin, Helen Tilley.

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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. Utopia/Dystopia offers a fresh approach to these ideas. Rather than locate ut...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Chakrabarty, Dipesh,
Gordin, Michael D.,
Halfin, Igal,
Jameson, Fredric,
Krige, John,
Mitchell, Timothy,
Nigam, Aditya,
Pinder, David,
Prakash, Gyan,
Shore, Marci,
Tilley, Helen,
Wenzel, Jennifer,
White, Luise,
HerausgeberIn:
Gordin, Michael D.,
Prakash, Gyan,
Tilley, Helen,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010]
©2011
Year of Publication:2010
Edition:Core Textbook
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. Utopia and Dystopia beyond Space and Time
  • PART ONE. ANIMA
  • 1. Utopia as Method, or the Uses of the Future
  • 2. Literacy and Futurity: Millennial Dreaming on the Nineteenth- Century Southern African Frontier
  • 3. Bourgeois Categories Made Global: The Utopian and Actual Lives of Historical Documents in India
  • 4. The Utopia of Working Phones: Rhodesian Independence and the Place of Race in Decolonization
  • 5. Hydrocarbon Utopia
  • PART TWO. ARTIFICE
  • 6. Techno- Utopian Dreams, Techno- Political Realities: The Education of Desire for the Peaceful Atom
  • 7. On Cosmopolitanism, the Avant- Garde, and a Lost Innocence of Central Europe
  • 8. The Breath of the Possible: Everyday Utopianism and the Street in Modernist Urbanism
  • 9. Stalinist Confessions in an Age of Terror: Messianic Times at the Leningrad Communist Universities
  • 10. The Heterotopias of Dalit Politics: Becoming- Subject and the Consumption Utopia Contributors
  • Contributors
  • Index

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