... horizon in even this strategy of containment and neutralization. © 2016 Virginia Tech 2016 Daybreakers Great Recession biopolitics dystopia vampire Works Cited Agamben Giorgio . 1998 . Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life . Translated by Heller-Roazen Daniel...

...Margret Grebowicz This article takes its cue from Timothy Morton’s invitation to think all things in terms of radioactivity. Instead of focusing on objects, however, the author explores radiation in the imagination of animal desire in the nuclear dystopia. Her working hypothesis...

..., Dystopia (2000) and coeditor of Not Yet: Reconsidering Ernst Bloch, with Jamie Owen Daniel (1997); Dark Horizons: Science Fiction and the Dystopian Imagination (2004) and Utopia-Method-Vision: The Use Value of Social Dreaming (2007), both with Raffaella Baccolini; and Exploring the Utopian...

... research and publishing interests include the American South, reggae music and politics, science fiction and dystopia, and colonial/postcolonial narratives. Donald Pease is Avalon Foundation Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English at Dartmouth College. His...

... the novel Goodman 2020 (Indiana UP), which was a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year." Set in the year of its title, it is a science fiction dystopia portraying a world overtaken by corporations. Though progressively writing more criticism, he published a second collection of fiction...

... (Indiana UP), which was a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year." Set in the year of its title, it is a science fiction dystopia portraying a world overtaken by corporations. Though progressively writing more criticism, he published a second collection of fiction in 1992, What They Tell You...

... (Indiana UP), which was a New York Times "Notable Book of the Year." Set in the year of its title, it is a science fiction dystopia portraying a world overtaken by corporations. Though progressively writing more criticism, he published a second collection of fiction in 1992, What They Tell You...

... ourselves, is a strong component of these texts and a theme that illustrates the stakes of dwindling biodiversity and, more generally, of Lippit’s paradigm of the vanishing animal. In a world without animals, like the post-nuclear dystopia of Philip K...

... to students of utopia: the rare explicit film representation of utopia, the more common dystopia, science fic- tion film, representations of past golden ages, ethnographic films, the political film, and body utopias, including those found in musicals and certain strands of pornography. In the following...

... or the black mirror of some godforsaken, abysmal dystopia (which from a conservative perspective doesn t even require writing another text). The Subjectless Desire The fact that, unlike manifestos, utopias have lost their power must be a source of dismay, or at least surprise, to those who remember their close...

... novel through the lens of kala pani migritude to determine whether migrant subjectivity in a mediated narrative is an ultimately temporary, fleeting, or failed act. Copyright © 2020 Virginia Tech 2020 kala pani migritude South Asian migration Parisian dystopias Eldorado Works Cited...

... classes, doing homework, commuting, eating, and sleeping. No wonder there’s an Adderall epidemic! Bousquet’s book reveals the dystopia that the contemporary university has become for many of its constituents. His comparisons between the managed university...

.... For the second defining factor of the existential antiutopia systematically developed from within the nuclei of our ruling classes and zealously followed by (sad to say) very many intellectuals right down to a tacitly new understanding of dystopia is that this new universe is not openly affirmed, as in its four...

...! Bousquet’s book reveals the dystopia that the contemporary university has become for many of its constituents. His comparisons between the managed university and the HMO are particularly apposite to the underinsured student population. In both cases...

... scripts the more difficult middle ground, creating an unflinching portrait of the dystopia we already inhabit. Second, Winterson reconceptualizes how we define life, encompassing silicon- and uranium-based forms within the boundaries of this category and thus complicating the notion of multi...

... the utopian terms of Jameson’s problematic of negation and figuration and Levitas’s engaged method. Both locate themselves on the dangerous terrain of the political, strug- gling through the dark woods of a contemporary dystopia, pushing through its briars of opportunism and co-optation, and stepping...

... Utopia in the Age of Globalization (2013), is provisionally titled Fictions of Dread, and focuses on the ideas of dystopia and representation in our time. I also hope to publish a book on Tol­ kien, which invokes Marxist criticism to offer revisionary readings of his texts while exploring the literary...

... in the globally infertile dystopia of Children of Men —​or, alternately, the depiction of the clone “carer” Kathy H. in Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2005 novel Never Let Me Go, who cares for sterilized human clones like herself, all required to ultimately die in donating their organs for the good of uncloned...