Utopia Beyond Capitalism in Contemporary Literature: A Commons Poetics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781350288553)

Featuring readings of contemporary utopian poetry and fiction from authors such as Juliana Spahr, Mohsin Hamid, Bong Joon-ho, Kim Stanley Robinson, Lidia Yukavitch, and Cory Doctorow, this book investigates the commons - a form of organisation based on collectivity, communalism and sharing - as a type of transition between capitalist precarity and crisis and anti-capitalist futures. Each of the texts under examination was written in opposition to a particular crisis of the capitalist present - inequality, political representation, mobility, and climate change - and develops a particular mode of utopian 'commoning'.

Through its examination of these writers, crises and texts, this book reaffirms the use of utopianism as a tool for generating and representing alternative futures for a world in the midst of ongoing planetary crisis.

Author: Raphael Kabo
ISBN-10: 1350288551
ISBN-13: 9781350288553
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 07/13/2023
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d