Utopia in the Age of Survival

Between Myth and Politics

Bibliographic Data

ID19946396
AuthorsS D Chrostowska (corresponding author)
Year2021
Publication date2021-10-19
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueUtopia in the Age of Survival (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherStanford University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1515/9781503630000
OpenAlexW4200383326
ISBN9781503630000
LanguageEN
Citations received4

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. At the same time the left must reassume utopia as an action-guiding hypothesis—that is, as something still possible. S. D. 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. Survival emerges as the organizing concept for a variety of democratic political forms that center the corporeality of desire in social movements contesting the expanding management of life by state institutions across the globe. Vigilant and timely, balancing fine-tuned analysis with broad historical overview to map the utopian impulse across contemporary cultural and political life, Chrostowska issues an urgent report on the vitality of utopia

Aesthetics · Democracy · Environmental ethics · Existentialism · Globe · Humanity · Political science · Politics · Posthuman · Situationism · Social science · Sociology · Utopia · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Psychology

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