Utopia Beyond Capitalism in Contemporary Literature

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.>

Préface
Featuring readings of contemporary utopian poetry and fiction, this book investigates the commons as a type of transition between capitalist precarity and crisis and anti-capitalist futures.

Auteur
Dr Raphael Kabo is an independent researcher investigating cultural production in, and adjacent to, contemporary global activist movements. He is a co-founder of the anarchist close reading collective Beyond Gender and the research network Utopian Acts.

Contenu

Preface
Introduction
Chapter One. Redefining Utopia: Utopian critical theory and utopian spatiality
Chapter Two. Escaping the Present: Precarity and surplus in a time of crisis
Chapter Three. Commons Beyond Capitalism: That Winter the Wolf Came
Chapter Four. Utopias Beyond Borders: Exit West
Chapter Five. Utopias Beyond Disaster: New York 2140
Chapter Six. Utopias Beyond Death: The Book of Joan and Walkaway
Epilogue
Bibliography