Post-Apocalyptic Cultures

This book advocates for the necessity of recovering the value of utopias as political projects that open new channels of action. The criticism of modern political utopias is based on the supposed impossibility of creating for the future because there is no longer a future (apocalyptic ideology). However, this edited collection seeks to show that the post-apocalyptic world in which we live entails a renewed freedom of design for the radical reorganization of institutions. Post-apocalyptic cultures are not obligated to follow the capitalist, anthropocentric, correlationist and sovereign modes of the old political project of emancipationthe Western enlightenmentthat has started to collapse. With this in mind, this book is divided into four sections dedicated to the main themes from which to rethink the projects of political emancipation that are possible nowadays: technopolitics; posthumanist biopolitics; non-western politicsl and the crossover between arts and politics.

Develops a multidisciplinary approach to current political utopias Argues that the new possibilities created in post-apocalytic cultures Integrates the research of scholars from several countries on four continents

Auteur

Julia Urabayen is Professor at the University of Navarra, Spain. In recent years, she has mainly studied public-urban space, forms of political violence, citizenship and the city, as well as governance and feminist utopias. She has published several books, book chapters and articles.

Jorge León Casero is Professor at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. He has been the head researcher of the Social Risk Map project. He is the author of several books, book chapters and articles.

Contenu
PART I - TECHNOPOLITICS.- Comeback to the Forbidden Planet: Dystopia in the Era of Collapse; Andoni Alonso Puello and Iñaki Arzóz.- Unidentified Technical Objects: Not Working, Breaking Laws, Doing Nothing; Eugene Kuchinov and Ivan Spitsyn.- Techno-Naturans Without Terraforming: From the Geoengineering of Mastery to Sympoietic Agency; Jorge León Casero.- Cyberculture, (Dys)Topias and Transformation; Rocío Rueda.- Smart Utopian Cities: Hangovers and Aftermaths; José María Castejón and Enrique Cano.- PART II - POSTHUMANIST BIOPOLITICS.- Post-Apocalyptic Critical Dystopias; Corin Braga.- In the World of Postselves and Posthumans: The Biopolitical Utopia of Postmortalism; Anna Bugajska.- From Utopia to Biopolitical Dystopia: The Creation of New Human Beings in Some Utopias of the Nineteenth-Century; Julia Urabayen.- Between Utopia and Reality (Modern Transhumanism Theories and Posthumanism); Ayazhan Sagikyzy and Anara Asanovna Uyzbayeva.- PART III - NON-WESTERN POLITICS.- Chinese Utopia and Dystopia from Non-Western Point of View; Dmitry Martynov.- Challenging Dystopia with Laughter: Yan Lianke's Inversion of Political Slogans in Serve the People! (2005); Angela Yiu.- From the Virtuous City to Ytubiya: A Condensed Account of Utopia Writings in Arabic; Yehoshua Frenkel.- Latin American Modernity and the Historical Role of the Integration Utopia; Juan Pro.- PART IV - MASS MEDIA AND AESTHETIC POLITICS.- The Creative Utopias of Abolitionist Organizing; Rebecca Zorach.- Surveillance and Utopia; Daniel Panka.- Utopias and Dystopias Through Images: The View of the Future in Films and Television Series; Leticia Florez Farfán and Gerardo De la Fuente Lora.- The Way Out is Through: Co-Produced Critical Utopias as Antidotes to Anthropocene Melancholia; Paul Raven.- Phototopia: (Re)Geneating Life from Photographs; Ana Peraica.