Titlebook: Globalization and Utopia; Critical Essays Patrick Hayden,Chamsy el-Ojeili Book 2009 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers

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After 1989: Globalization, Normalization, and Utopiaince Thomas More’s . (1516), imaginative fiction has been a major source of utopian visions, and is also a critical commentary on society, and since the nineteenth-century, utopia has become an important strand of social theory (Kumar, 1991, p. 87). The latter differed significantly from fiction, th

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Made in America: The Unsustainable All-Consuming Global Free-Market ‘Utopia’ increases in the value of the goods and services produced by commercial corporations and the economies of nation-states, a necessary corollary of which is that rates of consumption, in turn, have to rise to absorb growth in production. The strong implication conveyed in economic policy narratives i

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Islamutopia, (Post)Modernity and the Multitudemic worlds can be considered ‘postmodern’ in their ambition and constitution. ‘In the context of Islamic traditions’, the authors write, ‘fundamentalism is postmodern insofar as it rejects the tradition of Islamic modernism for which modernity was always overcoded as assimilation or submission to Eu

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Libertarian Cyber-Utopianism and Global Digital Networksto a radically new and agreeable world, a realm beyond the physically embodied geographical coordinates and restrictions of offline life, where one’s needs and desires can be fully realized.. Cyber-utopianism does not generally offer detailed societal blueprints, as in classical utopian writing. Rat

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Glocalization and the New Local Transnationalisms: Real Utopias in Liminal Spacesd Taylor, 1982, p. 207). Today, the goals of utopian thinking seem somewhat more circumspect. Thus Frederic Jameson writes eloquently of how ‘[t]he desire called Utopia must be concrete and ongoing, without being defeatist or incapacitating’ (Jameson, 2005, p. 84). We are now confronting the pessimi

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The Grandchildren of Marx and Coca-Cola: Lefebvre, Utopia and the ‘Recuperation’ of Everyday LifeGuy Debord unleashed a venomous assault on his former friend, mentor, and fellow imbiber Henri Lefebvre. Debord accused him of lifting the idea of the ‘festival’ from the Situationist International (S.I.) — somewhat ironically, in light of the fact that Situationist . can be read as elaborate plagia

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Sammlung von Konstruktionskatalogen,t which does not yet exist’ (Deleuze, 1994, p. 147)? This question lies at the heart of utopianism. To be utopian, we suggest, is the stuff of politics, and it first involves subjecting the politics of the present to critique. Secondly, it involves imagining human communities that do not yet exist a

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Konstruieren mit Konstruktionskatalogenia at the same time is a kind of ontological indicator of modernity. Moderns dream, like their predecessors, but they also know that such dreams can be materialized, and go awfully wrong, turning into twentieth-century nightmares. Utopia, in short, is ubiquitous, even when it is formally unpopular.