Utopian Imagination & Postmodern Apocalypse (21 books)

Utopian Studies • Disaster Studies • Critical Theory • Utopian Sci-fi & Science Fiction Studies • Intersectional Political Theory • Philosophy • Anarchism/Communism/Socialism vs Capitalism/Neoliberalism/Fascism
— All at the crossroads between the imagination of disaster and of utopia and at the intersection of the sociology of collapse/apocalypse and of revolution.

“Beloved (or “Extraordinary) Community” or dog-eat-dog ‘Survivalism’?

“Revolutionary Optimism” or ‘Doomerism’/‘Black Pill’?

“Joyful Militancy” or “Rigid Radicalism”/“Capitalist Realism”?

Utopia, or Apocalyptic Dystopia?

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1	A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit 3.95 avg rating — 3,824 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
1	The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America by Aaron Robertson 3.79 avg rating — 194 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times by Carla Bergman 4.37 avg rating — 867 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions by Fredric Jameson 4.03 avg rating — 585 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Utopia in the Age of Survival: Between Myth and Politics by S.D. Chrostowska 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin 4.26 avg rating — 146,068 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Utopia as Method: The Imaginary Reconstitution of Society by Ruth Levitas 4.22 avg rating — 46 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Yesterday's Tomorrow: On the Loneliness of Communist Specters and the Reconstruction of the Future by Bini Adamczak 4.28 avg rating — 76 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory (New Directions in Critical Theory, 17) by Enzo Traverso 4.07 avg rating — 353 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Against Paranoid Nationalism: Searching for Hope in a Shrinking Society by Ghassan Hage 4.34 avg rating — 29 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	The New Utopian Politics of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed by Laurence Davis 4.04 avg rating — 28 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination by Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author) 3.77 avg rating — 2,298 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster by Mike Davis 4.07 avg rating — 1,399 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	The Subversion of Politics: European Autonomous Social Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Life by George Katsiaficas 4.01 avg rating — 137 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Why We Fight: Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse by Shane Burley (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 106 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collective by Scott Crow 4.10 avg rating — 180 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	The Zapatistas' Dignified Rage: Final Public Speeches of Subcommander Marcos by Subcomandante Marcos 4.40 avg rating — 40 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Walkaway by Cory Doctorow (Goodreads Author) 3.76 avg rating — 8,938 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism by Peter H. Marshall 4.11 avg rating — 1,089 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	The Unknown Revolution, 1917-1921 by Voline 4.23 avg rating — 120 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America (Volume 15) (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society) by Michael Barkun 3.82 avg rating — 244 ratings score: 81, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars