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South Atlantic Quarterly (2007) 106 (4): 805–823.
Published: 01 October 2007
... is all too frequently absent from these quintessentially modern discourses is the shape and configuration of the political. Eco-dystopians and techno-utopians alike take the current con- figuration of the political and economic as given. Because of this, it seems impossible from these perspectives...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2023) 122 (4): 673–680.
Published: 01 October 2023
... . https://www.tni.org/en/article/tying-up-goliath . Marantz Andrew . 2019 . Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation . New York : Viking . Nguyen C. 2020 . “ Echo Chambers and Epistemic Bubbles .” Episteme 17 , no. 2 : 141...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2021) 120 (1): 151–162.
Published: 01 January 2021
... science fiction affordance of estrangement, in which we are placed at a distance from our world and asked to see it anew. The premise is a simple one, based on lampooning competing techno-utopian plans to save humanity by going to Mars when, in the words of the astronaut, everything is here...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2023) 122 (4): 779–793.
Published: 01 October 2023
... the techno-utopianism that justifies the system of surveillance capitalism. Thus, platform organizing among app-based workers may be essential to building democratic worker movements and to democratizing the global political economy in the twenty-first century. At the intersection of a larger techlash...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2022) 121 (3): 600–611.
Published: 01 July 2022
... their heads: how would the introduction of a digital currency alter what would appear to be the obstinate structures of Salvadoran society? Techno-utopianism holds significant sway over crypto-boosters, who find themselves caught up in a vision that is paradoxically maximalist and deeply circumscribed. Crypto...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2023) 122 (4): 697–712.
Published: 01 October 2023
... Phillips and Michal Rozworski in discussion with Sam Gindin, Pam Frache, and Rawan Abdelbaki); circulate socialist memes (e.g., a snarky take on Elon Musk's techno- utopianism); circulate short video clips from events (e.g., Jacobin founder Bhaskar Sunkara speaking at the 2017 “Transcending...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2021) 120 (1): 123–136.
Published: 01 January 2021
...-optimistic or techno-utopian. It is not the antithesis of a market relation: it is a market relation. It is also, we might argue, the form of solarity that has come to be transmitted more rapidly and widely, than any other. How are we to critically apprehend the relationship between economic and moral logics...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2023) 122 (1): 192–202.
Published: 01 January 2023
.... It is the lack of a future that figures centrally. For those who do not believe in techno-utopian fairy tales, the only easily imaginable future is an apocalyptic one. It is a future that has to be warded off by all means. The struggle is not so much about which future we want to build as it is about having...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2021) 120 (1): 77–89.
Published: 01 January 2021
... of some sustainability beyond the impasse while pitching techno-utopian solutions to the problem that will take time that must unfold across an eventual horizon. Sustainability s Suspense Put another way, sustainability serves the neoliberal retrofit of plenitude by synching transition-logic to austerity...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2000) 99 (4): 697–714.
Published: 01 October 2000
...- ine technology as a social construct in the network of discursive practices, and to this extent they are not particularly relevant to the government’s techno-utopian vision of a postrecession Japan where computers, informa...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2015) 114 (3): 595–610.
Published: 01 July 2015
... or lost in an instant. This is a territory populated by figures of violent sover- eignty: cowboys, “raiders” (Geisst 1999: 339), conquerors, and “kings” (Ste- vens 1993: 84). When the term vision is invoked, it is not filled with intelli- gent futurity, as in the techno-utopian imagery today furnished...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2017) 116 (2): 275–292.
Published: 01 April 2017
... could be taken back “in hand” suggests a techno- utopian imaginary. It is just such an imaginary that legitimates the possibil- ity of geoengineering the climate and micromanaging every ecosystem. In direct opposition to this tendency, Donna Haraway has given us another name for this era...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2022) 121 (3): 628–641.
Published: 01 July 2022
... in the process of cooperative startups The emerging platform cooperative movement poses a way forward for some of these challenges while intersecting with Puerto Rico s techno-­ economic shift, offering an alternative to the crypto-utopian and techno-­ capitalist development model. Platform cooperativism...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2017) 116 (2): 311–326.
Published: 01 April 2017
... . 2010 . From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Uexküll Jakob von . 1920 . Theoretische Biologie (Theoretical Biology) . Berlin : Gebrüder Paetel . Ure Andrew...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2015) 114 (4): 735–754.
Published: 01 October 2015
...- priate to the utopian manifesto form, we might linger somewhat less on the residual modes of somatophobia and techno-determinism that may animate or be fueled by her proposal than on where they take us and what modes of speculation they might enable. The Dialectic as Vanishing Mediator: Lighting...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2021) 120 (1): 1–11.
Published: 01 January 2021
... of this planet. But it also might simply reproduce a variant of the same system with a new form of energy that would confirm the ideologies of progress and techno-utopianism so important to liberal capitalism. Solar might avert the end of the world. But a solar future might well come into being in ways...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1993) 92 (4): 569–584.
Published: 01 October 1993
... their way from Berkeley, California.1 At first read, M2 seemed, somehow, important in its utopian plunge into the user-friendly future of better living not only through a chemistry left over from the 1960s, but also through per­ sonal computing, bio and nano technolo­ gies, virtual realities...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2015) 114 (3): 471–490.
Published: 01 July 2015
... they inhabit. They inhabit it gladly, treating it as a space of unfettered possi- bility and excitement, and they tend not to fantasize different social futures, even if many entrepreneurs operate within a form of techno-utopianism in which they imagine that the combination of their activity...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2020) 119 (3): 435–445.
Published: 01 July 2020
... . Stanford : Stanford University Press . Bloch Ernst Adorno Theodor 1988 . “ Something’s Missing: A Discussion between Ernst Bloch and Theodor W. Adorno on the Contradictions of Utopian Longing ”. In The Utopian Function of Art and Literature: Selected Essays , translated by Zipes Jack...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2006) 105 (1): 19–35.
Published: 01 January 2006
..., this was precisely the lesson that the outmaneu- vered American Right derived from the ideas of the political philosopher Leo Strauss. His demonstrably effective strategy had been not to think of the immediate and practical now but to fashion a long-range utopian project, attracting key figures from...