| Description |
1 online resource (222 p.) |
| Series |
Social and Critical Theory Series ; v.31 |
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Social and Critical Theory Series
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| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Dystopias and Beyond -- 1 The Concept of Dystopia -- 2 Dystopias in Historical Context -- 3 Temporality and Dystopias: 1984 and Beyond -- 4 Art and Dystopia: From Representations of Disaster to the Ruin of Presentation -- 5 Content of the Chapters: Consumerist, Technological and Ethico-Political Dystopias -- 1 Waiting for Catastrophe in the Dark: Public Obscurity and Victor Pelevin's Homo Zapiens -- Abstract -- Keywords -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Arendt on Darkness and Light |
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3 The Third Disruption and World without Work -- 4 Centrality of Desire -- 5 Accelerationist Futurism -- 6 Soviet Nostalgia with Human Rights -- 7 Prejudice about Work -- 8 Working and Radical Politics -- 9 Conclusion: Brave New World, Again -- 4 Thematising Technological Dystopias and Anxiety through Hans Blumenberg -- Abstract -- Keywords -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Anxiety as a Fundamental Attitude towards the World in Blumenberg's Philosophy -- 3 Technology as a Means of Structuring the Unfamiliar -- 4 Anxiety-Inducing Potential of Technology -- 4.1 Technology Disclosing New Possible Threats |
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4.2 Subordination: Technology Weakening Human Sense of Control -- 4.3 Singularity: Technology Gaining Autonomy and Escaping Our Reach -- 5 Conclusions: Technological Anxiety and Myth -- 5 The Limits of Control: Industrial Dystopias and Techno Utopias in Mika Vainio's Music -- Abstract -- Keywords -- 1 Introduction -- 2 In the Beginning There Was Ø -- 3 Vainio's Sonic Fictions versus Afrofuturism -- 4 Industrial Dystopias: Control and Counter-Strategies -- 5 Techno Utopias -- 6 Can the Future Be Cancelled? On the Technological Dystopia in Melanie Gilligan's The Common Sense -- Abstract -- Keywords |
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1 Introduction -- 2 Technology and Visual Arts -- 3 The Patch -- 4 The Logic of Innovation -- 5 Emotional Labour -- 6 Conclusion -- 7 The Liberal Dystopia: Joseph de Maistre's Grim Visions on the Enlightenment and Democracy -- Abstract -- Keywords -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Perils of the Enlightenment -- 3 The Dangers of Political Rationalism and the Necessity of Anchoring Politics to History -- 4 The Impossibility of Democracy -- 5 Maistre, a Proto-Socialist? -- 6 Conclusions -- 8 Ethical Temporality, Justice, and Dystopia of Being-for-the-Other: Between Ethics and Politics -- Abstract |
| Summary |
The book explores the possibilities and limitations of dystopian imagination, asking if visions of horrific futures help us decide upon the best course of action, or if they paralyse us and prevent us from engaging in social transformation |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Keywords |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Poleshchuk, Irina
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Ruonakoski, Erika
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| ISBN |
9789004681385 |
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9004681388 |
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