| Contents |
An American utopia / Fredric Jameson -- Mutt and Jeff push the button / Kim Stanley Robinson -- Dual power redux / Jodi Dean -- The happy accident of a utopia / Saroj Giri -- From the other scene to the other state: Jameson's dialectic of dual power / Agon Hamza -- A Japanese utopia / Kojin Karatani -- Jameson and method: on comic utopianism / Frank Ruda -- After October, before February: figures of dual power / Alberto Toscano -- Utopian therapy: work, non-work, and the political imagination / Kathi Weeks -- The seeds of imagination / Slavoj Žižek -- An American utopia: epilogue / Fredric Jameson. |
| Abstract |
"Controversial manifesto by acclaimed cultural theorist debated by leading writers Fredric Jameson's path-breaking essay An American Utopia radically questions standard leftist notions of an eman-cipated society, advocating--among other things--universal conscription as the model for the communist reorganization of soci-ety, fully acknowledging envy and resentment as the central problem of a communist society, and rejecting the dreams of over-coming the division between work and leisure. Endorsing the axiom that to change the world one should begin by changing our dreams about how we imagine an emancipated society, Jameson's text is ideally placed to trigger a debate on possible and imag-inable alternatives to global capitalism. In addition to Jameson's essay, the volume brings reactions to it by philosophers and political and cultural analysts, as well as an epilogue from Jameson. Many will be appalled at what they will encounter--there will be blood. But what if one has to spill such (ideological) blood to give the left a new chance? Contributors include Kim Stanley Robinson, Jodi Dean, Saroj Giri, Agon Hamza, Kojin Karatani, Frank Ruda, Alberto Toscano, Kathi Weeks, and Slavoj. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Jameson, Fredric, author. American utopia. London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2016 9781784784546 |
| LCCN | 2016010575 |
| ISBN | 9781784784539 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 1784784532 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9781784784522 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 1784784524 (hardback) |
| Standard identifier# |
40026217474 |
