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UTOPIA IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION
SPACE, REPRESENTATION, AND THE WORLD-SYSTEM |
| By: |
Dr. Robert T. Tally |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£32.66 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0230391915 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780230391918 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
26 February, 2013 |
| Pages: |
128 |
| Description: |
The idea of "Utopia" has made a comeback in the age of globalization, and the bewildering technological shifts and economic uncertainties of the present era call for novel forms of utopia. Tally argues that a new form of utopian discourse is needed for understanding, and moving beyond, the current world system. |
| Synopsis: |
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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UK |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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