No Other Planet

Utopian Visions for a Climate-Changed World

AvMathias Thaler

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

Visions of utopia - some hopeful, others fearful - have become increasingly prevalent in recent times. This groundbreaking, timely book examines expressions of the utopian imagination with a focus on the pressing challenge of how to inhabit a climate-changed world. Forms of social dreaming are tracked across two domains: political theory and speculative fiction. The analysis aims to both uncover the key utopian and dystopian tendencies in contemporary debates around the Anthropocene; as well as to develop a political theory of radical transformation that avoids not only debilitating fatalism but also wishful thinking. This book juxtaposes theoretical interventions, from Bruno Latour to the members of the Dark Mountain collective, with fantasy and science fiction texts by N. K. Jemisin, Kim Stanley Robinson and Margaret Atwood, debating viable futures for a world that will look and feel very different from the one we live in right now.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-09-22
Mått:151 x 228 x 22 mm
Vikt:560 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:364
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009015653

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Statsvetenskap och politisk teori inom Samhälle och politik

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Mathias Thaler teaches Political Theory at the University of Edinburgh.

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'No Other Planet synthesises astute theoretical analysis, bold imagination and an acute consciousness of the stakes for scholars writing about the climate crisis to engage readers in the transformative possibilities of utopian thought, art and action. Dispelling both tired dismissals of utopia as wishful thinking, and their counterpart in resigned fatalism, Mathias Thaler demonstrates how different utopian imaginations, in theory, in fiction and in the prefiguration of activism, can estrange, galvanise and caution those for whom the future seemed fixed by the past and present. In this sense, while never overstating the difference that theory can make in the face of our planet in peril, Thaler has written a book that allows his readers to recognise this one, only planet as one whose future our care, attention and imagination might make a difference.' Danielle Celermajer, The University of Sydney

Innehållsförteckning

1. Solid Frames and Open Doors; 2. Varieties of Utopian Thinking; 3. What if: Planet Earth as an actor; 4. If Only: Eutopias of Scientific Progress between Techno-Optimism and Anti-Capitalism; 5. If this goes on: Hope Lost, Hope Regained; 6. Sober Realism and Radical Imagination.