Post-Apocalyptic Cultures

Post-Apocalyptic Cultures New Political Imaginaries After the Collapse of Modernity - Palgrave Studies in Utopianism

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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 emancipation-the Western enlightenment-that 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.

Book information

ISBN: 9783031505096
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date:
DEWEY: 321.07
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 301
Weight: 522g
Height: 210mm
Width: 148mm
Spine width: 19mm