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Utopia in the Age of Globalization: Space, Representation, and the World System

By Jr. , Robert T. Tally

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2013
ISBN
0230391893, 9780230391895
Google Books ID
nFuedG_NxN4C
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1932174 bytes)
Series
Palgrave Pivot
Pages
xvi+112\130
Topic
Literature Literary
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2015-02-09 11:08:19

Description

Although normally associated with modernity or modernism, utopia has made a comeback in the age of globalization. Just as the discoveries of the New World and the social upheavals of early modern Europe inspired Thomas More's Utopia and its many descendants, the bewildering technological shifts and economic uncertainties of the present era call for new approaches. The explosion of utopian studies since the 1960s, particularly in the work of such theorists as Herbert Marcuse and Fredric Jameson, suggests that utopia may find its true vocation as both a critical practice and anticipatory desire in this postmodern moment of global capitalism. In Utopia in the Age of Globalization, Robert T. Tally Jr. draws upon recent utopian theory to argue that utopia is best understood today, not as an ideal society or a future state, but as a mode of literary cartography. The utopian project is an attempt to map the present world system in its totality.

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