Utopia in the Age of Survival: Between Myth and Politics Chrostowska S. D.
Utopia in the Age of Survival: Between Myth and Politics Chrostowska S. D. A pathbreaking exploration of the fate of utopia in our troubled times, this book shows how the historically intertwined…
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Utopia in the Age of Survival: Between Myth and Politics Chrostowska S. D.
A pathbreaking exploration of the fate of utopia in our troubled times, this book shows how the historically intertwined endeavors of utopia and critique might be leveraged in response to humanity's looming existential challenges.Utopia in the Age of Survival makes the case that critical social theory needs to reinstate utopia as a speculative myth. Chrostowska looks to the vibrant, visionary mid-century resurgence of embodied utopian longings and projections in Surrealism, the Situationist International, and critical theorists writing in their wake, reconstructing utopia's link to survival through to the earliest, most radical phase of the French environmental movement. At the same time the left must reassume utopia as an action-guiding hypothesis-that is, as something still possible. S. D.
Survival emerges as the organizing concept for a variety of democratic