Rethinking Democracy for Post-Utopian Worlds : Alternative Political Projects after the Sovereign State

• Autore: León Casero Jorge
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2024; ©2024
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (355 pages)
• Altri autori: UrabayenJulia
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Part I: New Assemblages of the Utopian Categories Beyond Modern Epistemes -- Utopia and Time: Conservative and Radical Utopias in the Age of the Anthropocene -- 1 A Short History of Utopia: From the Theory of Forms to the Idea of Spontaneous Order -- 2 From Transitional to Apocalyptic Utopianism -- References -- Solid-Modern and Liquid-Modern Utopias: Zygmunt Bauman's Sociological Contribution to our Understanding of Utopia -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Utopian Beginnings -- 3 Three Utopias -- The Gamekeeper's Utopia -- The Gardener's Utopia -- The Hunter's Utopia -- 4 Liquid-Modern Dystopia -- 5 Retrotopian Threats -- 6 Utopia as a 'Constant' -- 7 Conclusion -- References -- Ernst Bloch and the Utopia of Law: A Bidimensional Concept of Human Dignity -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Concept of Utopia in Bloch's Thought -- 3 From Natural Law to Legal Utopia: The Key Role of Human Dignity -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- New Education: Searching for Utopia -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Education and the Creation of the New Man in a New Society -- 3 The Creation of a Bureaucratic Pedagogy and the Expansion of School Education -- 4 The New School's Perspective -- 5 Utopian Traits of New Education -- 6 New Education as a Model and Project for Pedagogical Action -- 7 Final Thoughts -- References -- Reimagining the University Through Resistance-The Prefigurative Work of Trade Unions and Students' Unions in Transcending Neoliberal Exploitation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Theoretical Framework -- 3 Case Study: National Campaign-Preventing Prevent -- 4 Case Studies on Sussex University Campus-From the Pop-Up Union to Pandemic Crisis -- 5 A University Commons -- References -- Part II: Rethinking Liberal Utopian Democracies Without Neoliberalism -- The Libertarian Utopia of Non-politics. ; 1 Introduction -- 2 Libertarian Utopia and Dystopia(s) -- 3 Libertarianism, Democracy, and Dystopia -- 4 Conclusions. Libertarianism and Politics -- References -- Liberal Atrophy and the Rise of Post-Fascism -- 1 The Splintering of Liberalism -- 2 A Liberalism of Fear -- 3 The Post-Fascist Atmosphere -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- A Tolerant Utopia -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Impossibility of a High-liberal Utopia -- 3 From Respect to Tolerant Utopia -- 4 From Toleration to a Libertarian State -- References -- The Realistic Utopia of a World Without Borders -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Distributive Justice or Free Mobility -- 3 The Utopian Character of a Utopia -- 4 The Realistic Utopia -- References -- Part III: Reloading Utopian Socialist Empowerments and Insurgencies -- The Russian Revolution as Utopian "Leap": The Socialist "New Person" -- References -- Progress Versus Catastrophe? Utopian Hope in German Marxist Anti-Fascism -- 1 Reading History: Lukács and Benjamin -- 2 Progress and Catastrophe in Utopian Fiction -- References -- Anti-Anti-Utopia for Post-Socialist Times: Fredric Jameson's An American Utopia in Perspective -- References -- Capitalism, Form of Life, Utopia: Critical Paths in a "New Normal" World -- 1 Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: The Strange Case of "nothing will ever be the same again" -- 2 What Is Capitalism? -- 3 What Is a Form of Life? -- 4 What Is Utopia? -- 5 Welcome to the Desert of the Post-Human, the Post-Social, and the Post-Utopian -- References -- Chronicle of an Insurgent Utopia -- 1 Introduction -- 2 "Why Do They Have Everything, and We Have Nothing?" -- 3 "An Immense Solidarity Was Awakened in the People" -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Part IV: Imaging New Political Projects in the Space Between Two Ages -- Imagining a Post-sovereign Polity as a "Realistic Utopia". ; 1 Imagining a Post-sovereign Polity as a "Realistic Utopia" -- 2 The Sovereign Polity -- 3 The Limits of Sovereign Rule -- 4 Imagining the Post-sovereign Polity -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Making Sense of Fragments: Utopian Prospects for Architecture and Cities Now -- 1 Modernity as Crisis -- 2 Hope in Times of Risk -- 3 Remapping the Future -- 4 Lefebvre's Method as Ground -- 5 Periphery: Outer Edge, Margin, Fringe -- 6 City/Country/Urban/Rural -- 7 Becoming Stubbornly Pragmatic Utopians -- 8 Anarchist Spatial Practises -- 9 A Long View -- 10 Resistance -- References -- Two Models of Feminist Utopian Communities: From the Perfectionist Utopia to the Dynamic (Post)utopia -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Perfect Community as a Dystopian Place -- 3 The Dynamic Community as a Post-utopia -- 4 Final Remarks -- References -- Utopias and Dystopias: Between Violence and Seduction -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Semantic Cores of Utopias and Dystopias -- 3 Violence and Seduction -- 4 Final Thoughts -- References -- Ecosocialism as Utopia -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Capitalist War on Nature -- 3 The Ecosocialist Alternative -- 4 Why Environmentalists Need to Be Socialists -- 5 How to Realize the Ecosocialist Utopia? -- References -- Utopian Ecologies: Amazonia as Environmental Futurity -- 1 Context: Literary Utopias about the Amazon -- 2 Brief Overview beyond Literature: Nonfiction Accounts from the Amazon -- 3 Case Study: The Amazon as Environmental Futurity in Davi Kopenawa's The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman -- References -- Part V: Theories, Praxis and Projects for Eco-Political Post-Utopias -- Engineering Imagined Futures: Community Building Along the Erie Canal -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Beginning of an Industrial Economy -- 3 A New Way of Life -- 4 Final Remarks -- References. ; Technological Utopianism, Tinkering, and Agricultural Technology: Food Utopias, Care, and Farmers in the Future -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Food Utopias and Agri-Food -- Technological Utopianism -- Food Utopias -- Critique -- Experimentation -- Process -- 3 Tinkering, Care, and Food Utopias -- Hop Farmers as Tinkerers -- New Farmers as Tinkerers -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- Collaborative Is Not Common: The Wonderful and Solipsistic World of Jeremy Rifkin and the Third Industrial Revolution -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Jeremy Rifkin's Collaborative Bio-Cyber-Utopia -- 3 Access Without Possession: Platform Bio-Governance as Distributed Democracy -- 4 Conclusions -- References -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Rethinking Democracy for Post-Utopian Worlds
• ISBN: 3-031-53491-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910865283103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Palgrave Studies in Utopianism Series