Utopia in the Age of Globalization - Space, Representation, and the World-System

Zusatztext "A timely and significant intervention in contemporary discussions of globalization and utopia. The scope of the book is wide-ranging and ambitious! touching on a richly diverse set of topics! including contemporary critical theory! the figure of the world market! financial derivatives! the spaces of the global city! and narrative." - Phillip E. Wegner! Marston-Milbauer Eminent Scholar! University of Florida! USA and author of Imaginary Communities: Utopia! the Nation! and the Spatial Histories of Modernity! Life Between Two Deaths! 1989 2001: U.S. Culture in the Long Nineties! and Periodizing Jameson; or! The Adventures of Theory in Post-Contemporary Times. Informationen zum Autor Robert T. Tally Jr. is Associate Professor of English at Texas State University! USA. He is the translator of Bertrand Westphal s Geocriticism: Real and Fictional Spaces. Klappentext The idea of "Utopia" has made a comeback in the age of globalization! and the bewildering technological shifts and economic uncertainties of the present era call for novel forms of utopia. Tally argues that a new form of utopian discourse is needed for understanding! and moving beyond! the current world system. Zusammenfassung The idea of "Utopia" has made a comeback in the age of globalization! and the bewildering technological shifts and economic uncertainties of the present era call for novel forms of utopia. Tally argues that a new form of utopian discourse is needed for understanding! and moving beyond! the current world system. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: 'A map of the world which does not contain Utopia' 1. The End of Utopia at the Present Time 2. A Meditation on the Impossible 3. Power to the Imagination 4. Mapping the Postnational World System Conclusion: Hic Sunt Dracones Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Robert T. Tally Jr., Dr. Robert T. Tally, Robert T. Tally Jr, Robert T. Tally Jr.
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.02.2013
• EAN: 9781349351800
• ISBN: 978-1-349-35180-0
• No. of pages: 127
• Series: Palgrave Pivot; Palgrave Pivot
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies