... that suggests an older tradition of Chinese utopianism linked to wilderness poetry and natural order. © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 If Chan’s dystopia is a reflection of the CCP’s psychopolitical failure to convince people about the reality of the Chinese communist utopia to come, it is also...

... of integral reality is ironically represented by the very moment of its apparent completion. It is this paradox, the paradox at the heart of power, which ensures that integral reality, a world of satisfaction and self-identity, is never a utopia where we want for nothing, but rather a dystopia of despair...

... vertical escape from the surface of the planet a matter worthy of serious consideration among engineers, planners, military strategists, and countercultural futurologists. The shift in the conception of utopia, from the lateral displacements typical of its classical formations to the vertical modes...

...Mark Featherstone; Malcolm Miles © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. The focus of this special issue of Cultural Politics is the politics of utopia and dystopia...

...Stefan Skrimshire The subject of utopianism in contemporary political life has experienced a revival of interest in the last few years. One of the most polemical contributions is John Gray’s Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia . One of the greatest benefits of this book...

... to other the new immigrants from Eastern Europe because of their inability to conform to the norms of the neoliberal capitalist utopia advanced by Nicolas Sarkozy in the early years of the twenty-first century. In the first section of the article, I discuss the situation of the Romanian Roma...

... of the idea of luxus in the Roman context through a discussion of the relationship between the emperor Nero, who pushed luxury toward its psychopathic limits, and the Stoic philosopher Seneca, who championed mos maiorum , the moral life of moderation, and a utopia of balance and proportion. In order...

... Duke University Press 2019 radical feminism critical utopia dystopia antiutopianism post-1960s Approaching these features of failure and impossibility in The Dialectic of Sex as generic criteria of the critical utopia has the potential to generate a far more complex understanding...

...Martin Parker Tocqueville's Virus: Utopia and Dystopia in Western Social and Political Thought , by Featherstone Mark , Abingdon : Routledge , 2008 , 332 pages, £65, HB ISBN 978-0-415-33961-2 © BERG 2009 PRINTED IN THE UK 2009 This is an ambitious book. Mark Featherstone has...

... . Goldberg Jonah . 2001 . “ Civilization Envy: On Muslims, Israel, and McDonald's .” National Review , September 28 , article.nationalreview.com/267187/civilization-envy/jonah-goldberg . Gray John . 2007 . Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia . New York : Farrar...

... glimmers of hope in Bauman’s work. Some of my most abiding memories of Zygmunt are of discussions (in the late 1970s and early 1980s) about hope, which is a recurring—and fluctuating—theme in his work. 1 In his early arguments about utopia, which could be read in relation to mid-twentieth-century...

... not obscure” (p. 4). The following five chapters survey the evolution of Russian art – and life – reaching back to the 1860s while focusing on the period between 1914 and 1917. Cohen reacts to the fact that, as the art historian Paul Wood observed in the catalogue of the Great Utopia exhibition, “one...

...Figure 1 Cao Fei, My Future Is Not a Dream 05 , 2006. Inkjet print, 120 × 150 cm. Video still from Whose Utopia , 2006. Projected color video with stereo sound, 20 min. Courtesy of the artist. ...

... Bougainville titled Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique ( The Savages of the Pacific ). Fifteen years after the French Revolution and half a century after Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert began work on the Encyclopédie , Charvet’s wallpaper is a rationalist’s utopia, an arcadia of bare-breasted...

... and the Foundations of Art History . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press . Jameson Fredric . 2007 . Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions . London : Verso . Jay Martin . 1984 . Adorno . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Kahin...

... and destruction of the biosphere than the West. Even if he could swallow his moral objections to Chinese authoritarianism, this Prometheanism means that turning toward a new politics of social control would never work for Žižek, simply because his communist utopia (based on the spiritual intimacy of noli me...

... in these spaces. The third—loss—emerged when reflecting back on my earlier engagement with these spaces in prior research, as potential safe spaces and sites of “everyday utopia” (Cooper 2013 ). Noting that loss appeared to be a generative concept in theories of utopian cultural production (Muñoz 2009 ; Bloch...

.... It was not as a theorist of ambivalence that Bauman first came to fame; his early major works were concerned with elites and praxis, with utopia, and with the epistemological problems of the social sciences. Yet his radical understanding of cultural change and political life derived from and almost always related...

... to the rubbish heap of history, and Trump, who wants to take America out of the world and into a utopia of isolationism. The problem in each case is the fate of the other who is dehumanized, objectified, cast out, and destroyed in the name of the emergence of the new that rises up on the far side of critical...